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Video streaming over FireWire

If you want to stream video on the net and you do not have the means to encoder and streaming server, enough camera connected to your PC via FireWire, and VLC player.

Lots of forums addressing this but I've never found instructions, so my colleagues and I researched and here's the result:

1) Download and install VLC player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

2) The select VLC Player: Media - Current Broadcasting (CTRL + S)

3) Here tab "Capture device, Capture mode: DirectShow -> Drop shock

4) Leave the settings and choose another:

5) New Destination: UDP - Add (or check the display locale), delete "Activate transcoding '

6) Make a UDP address, port and release a stream.

In case you need to stream across multiple VLANs and receiving stream does not work, you must set the TTL to a higher value than the default (1). Setting the TTL, however, the current version of VLC (1.0.1) does not work.

Therefore it is necessary to run VLC player through the command-line or by a representative with the following parameters:

Running stream:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" dshow:// --sout #duplicate{dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.255.2:1234},dst=display} --ttl 12

Income stream:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" udp://@239.255.255.2:1234 -f --aspect-ratio=4:3

No problem streams with bitrate of about 20Mbps (720p) on Cisco hardware, if I put in the way of no-name switch, the picture begins to fall.

I hope this guide will be useful.