So when the stream is stopped kodi stops too. Netstat -tulpen or tcpview is your friend!Īlso I think its good to know that this approach is not turning the kodi into a listening rtsp player (a la chromcast). If its not working check the used port on your systems for already open sockets. Transcoding is on by default resulting in the following settings: (no surprise as it is a connectionless streaming protocol)Īdd a streaming destination using RTSP protocol with default settings Instead, I tried to use the rtsp protocol and found it worked better The setup with the http seemed to be a bit fiddly for me. I hope this has been of some help to you and if you find out a way to make VLC initiate playback, do let us know. It works for me and does so each and every time.
If it doesn't work, close VLC and follow the steps again. Hopefully, if you followed the steps correctly, you should now have the file streaming from VLC to Kodi.
(I'm guessing you already know how to link to a specific folder/server so I don't need to go over that) strm file you saved to your Kodi folder, or to your server, and you should now see the streaming video playing in Kodi. Some menu names/icons may be different.ġ5: What you have to do now is select the.
For example, your PC might be at: '192.168.0.6' (Keep the ':10803' port part at the end.
Streaming from VLC to Kodi is pretty simple and I can walk you through the steps.