You will need an IPv6-aware operating system, like Linux 2.4.21 with the ipv6 module loaded, Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Mac OS X version 10.2 or higher. Please look at the features pages on the VideoLAN web site to know about the status of IPv6 in VLC and VLS for each O.S .
If you are using VMware under Linux, you will have to stop VMware and unload the VMware kernel modules, because we noticed it prevented IPv6 streaming !
%vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:[ff08::1] --ttl 12
where :
video1.xyz
is the file you want to stream (you can also put
dvdold:/dev/dvd to stream a DVD or any other input
configuration)
,
ff08::1 is either :
the IPv6 address of the machine you want to unicast to ;
or the multicast IPv6 address .
12 is the value of the TTL (Time To Live) of your IP packets (which means that the stream will be able to cross 11 routers) .
Under Unix/Linux, you may have to protect the square brackets around the IPv6 address :
%vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:\[ff08::1\] --ttl 12
You may have to specify the output network interface :
%vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:[ff08::1%eth0] --ttl 12
where eth0 is the name of the network interface (under Linux the network interfaces are named ethX, under Mac OS X it's enX and under Windows it's X, where X is the appropriate number) .
You will need to use the configuration
file vls.cfg. Please, see the VLS user guide to know how to
write one for IPv6 streaming in unicast or multicast
.