QuickTime Broadcaster

Hi I have a couple of questions regarding QuickTime Broadcaster.
First....how do even make it work.
When I select the automatic Unicast I get an error -5420 no matter what I fill out on the fields or do it over TCP.
When I select it as manual unicast I don't get any error message but any other computer inside my own network cannot see the broadcast on either the audio or video port. This brings another question. Why 2 ports and not just one? and, how do I setup both ports on the viewer QT?
My other issue is that I can only broadcast my iSight, but I want to broadcast what's going on on my desktop instead of my webcam. How do I broadcast the desktop?
Anyways. I would appreciate if somebody could educate me on how to use this program.
Thank you. Bye.

It will work stand alone. After tinkering around and searching various discussion groups it turns our the whole problem is on the receiving end. If they have a router it has a firewall and router firewalls seems to be default configured to block the ports Broadcaster uses. By plugging the computer directly into the cable modem the broadcast got through. Maybe someone can explain this a bit better but when using Broadcaster one to one, the broadcast is being sent to that IP address only via the ports at the receiving end. Because of all the bad things people like to do when they can hack into other's computers these are blocked. So the receiving end has to open their ports to let the broadcast in. Kind of like why you close and lock the front door to your house, it keeps out the unwanted but it has to be opened to let the cat in.

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