Camcaster

• Broadcast live video & audio!
• Easy to use!
• Free & open source software
• No trial period, no registration, no nagging!

Have you ever wanted to broadcast live video?

The default settings should work well for most people, allowing decent quality at the lowest bandwidth rates so you can have as many viewers as possible, because remember that streaming video can use a lot of bandwidth.

Designed for Linux, this is a very simple frontend for VLC's relevant streaming capabilities and as such requires VLC media player to be installed in your computer, which is easy to achieve using the built-in package managers that come with Linux distributions.

LAN Access

Camcaster Video Streaming Software

Users can watch the stream over the LAN by accessing the LAN address and port of the stream via HTTP. Here's an example command line to watch a stream on LAN address 192.168.0.10 and port 8000:

vlc "http://192.168.0.10:8000"

Port Forwarding

To make the stream available to the global internet, you need to set up port forwarding in your router. See your router's documentation for more information on setting up port forwarding. In the future, this software might use UPnP to set up port forwarding automatically.

Streaming requires one port, and the default port is 8000. To set up port forwarding on your router, you'll go to an address like 192.168.0.1 and enter the password, which might be found on a sticker on the router. This is usually not the same as the password that is used to access wifi services. Look for port forwarding settings. Find a button or link to add more forwarded ports, and when there, set all port fields to 8000, e.g. source port, destination port, and you don't need a range of ports, so set the start and end ports both to 8000. Besides setting everything port-related to 8000, you just need to enter your streaming computer's address on the LAN. That way, your router sends requests to that port to the right computer so listeners can connect.

Audio Troubleshooting

If you have no audio or distorted audio, check your mixer settings. Go to the speaker icon in the lower right and look for mixer settings. Adjust the microphone level there.

Future Development

• Allow selecting video and audio devices
• Boost priority of process
• Use UPnP to automatically set up port forwarding

If you use this for streaming sexual content, please follow all applicable laws.

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