Playing Input Streams with Players

You can preview the input streams through the following video players:

• VLC Player

• Flash Player

• Shoutcast

To Play Input Streams with a VLC Player:

1. In the Zixi Broadcaster Inputs page, click the desired input stream that you want to play with VLC.

2. Click the 

   Open

   

   button on the right end of the selected row and then Play with VLC. The Link Description window with the directory path for the desired file is displayed.

3. Click Run VLC. The selected file is downloaded to the computer.

4. Double-click on the newly downloaded file. This configured file runs using the VLC player and appears on a new output line on the Output screen wherein it can be monitored. Alternatively, copy the path and send it to the user so it can be entered in the Network URL of the VLC player.

To Play Input Streams with a Flash Player:

Flash Player enables playing the stream on a native browser with the Flash player.

1. In the Zixi Broadcaster Inputs page, click the desired input stream that you want to play with Flash Player.

2. Click the

   Open

   

     button on the right end of the selected row and then Play with Flash. The Link Description window with the directory path and proxy path for the desired file is displayed.

3. Click Run to view the .flv file that appears on the first line of the window or Run Accelerated to run the file from the proxy server with better results.

To Play Input Streams with a Shoutcast:

Shoutcast enables playing an audio file on a native browser.

1. In the Zixi Broadcaster Inputs page, click the desired input stream that you want to play with Shoutcast.

2. Click the 

   button on the right end of the selected row and then Play with Shoutcast. The Link Description window will open with the directory path for the desired file.