How do I stream Multicast video (via vlc)?

[aManFromOuterSpace]

Hi gang,

As above, how do I transmit a UDP multicast stream? I am using VLC to stream the content through the network.

To date I have system in place on Windows whereby the traffic is routed through a persistant route as follows:

Network Address: 224.0.0.100
Netmask: 224.0.0.255
Gateway: 192.168.9.10
Metric: 3

When I try to add this route to Linux I get an error saying that the route I am trying to add is bogus.

Is multicast possible? Or do I need to be using something other than 'ip route add' or 'route add'?

Thanks

[aManFromOuterSpace]

Very weird, but as it turns out. If I setup VLC to stream using the GUI I get no joy. However I came across an obscure post in the corner of the web that said they could only stream multicast when launching from terminal.

So I have added the route 224.0.0.0 via eth1 and ran from the terminal

myvideo.m2t --sout udp://224.0.0.100:20000 --ttl 30 -L

Hopefully this will help someone out in the future.