How to live stream a local video using FFmpeg

Question

I have been trying to stream local video on VLC using the FFmpeg library like this:

$ ffmpeg -i sample.mp4 -v 0 -vcodec mpeg4 -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:23000

I have not been able to stream the file on VLC.

Answer 1

My guess is that you are trying to play in VLC using the URL udp://127.0.0.1:23000 as you have it in the FFmpeg command. In VLC, try using udp://@:23000 instead.