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/* Position Is Everything */ — Modern browser bugs explained in Inderscience Publishers Video Streaming with VLC Player 1 Comment The VCL player form VideoLAN is an awesome piece of software. Apart from playing most video formats and supporting conversion from one to another, it has a video streaming server built into it. All you need is a video file or video capture device and a few clicks to start broadcasting your videos over network. The best part is it is open source and available for multiple operating systems. Setting up the server This is really easy. Your server is working. Streaming from different sources Source of video can be a file, VCD/DVD, TV tuner card, camcoder or (it seems) any common video capturing device. You can broadcast to a single computer using RTP Unicast or broadcast to a range of IP addresses using RTP Multicast. Showing videos in webpages Once you have a server , you may want to host webpages that show the video. More details can be found on this page. Similarly on IE , we can use Windows Media Player for this purpose. Experimenting with the VLC Player. Useful links