Saturday, August 17, 2013

Cisco VLC Multicast Streaming Demo – PIM Sparse Mode

Topology

[Multicast-realdemo.jpg]

Howto

Configurations

This is the how to for this lab: here
R1
!
ip multicast-routing
!
!
interface Loopback0
ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
ip pim sparse-mode
!
interface FastEthernet1/0
description wan
ip address 10.0.12.1 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface FastEthernet2/0
description lan
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
duplex auto
speed auto
!
router ospf 1
router-id 1.1.1.1
log-adjacency-changes
network 1.1.1.1 0.0.0.0 area 1
network 10.0.12.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
network 10.0.13.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 1
!
!Define this router as a RP
ip pim rp-candidate Loopback0
!


R2

ip multicast-routing
!
interface Loopback0
ip address 2.2.2.2 255.255.255.255
ip pim sparse-mode
!
!
interface FastEthernet1/0
description wan
ip address 10.0.12.2 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface FastEthernet1/1
description lan
ip address 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
duplex auto
speed auto
!
router ospf 1
router-id 2.2.2.2
log-adjacency-changes
network 2.2.2.2 0.0.0.0 area 2
network 10.0.12.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
network 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255 area 2
!
!Define router as a Bootstrap Router Candidate
ip pim bsr-candidate Loopback0 0

!

Note:
ip pim bsr-candidate and ip pim rp-candidate can both be added to the same router if you wish. Therefore in this lab we could of defines both on R1 and left R2 with only ip pim sparseon its interfaces.
Here are the batch files used in VLC:
StartMulticast.bat:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv test.m4v :sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=239.0.0.1:1234} --ttl 12

StartVideo.bat

call "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv udp://@239.0.0.1:1234

Taken From: http://roggyblog.blogspot.pt/2009/10/multicast-lab-with-vlc-howto.html

For info on setting up VLC via the graphical interface check out this post: http://myhowtosandprojects.blogspot.pt/2013/08/vlc-multicast-streaming.html