Read a media file and forward it to VLC player

Question

Hello i am trying to read a media file byte by byte, build UDP datagram and send this over my machine on port 5000. I started VLC player to listen on port 5000 UDP, VLC does receive something but does not display anything.
here is my java code:
I read an .avi file by chunck of 1024 bytes:
System.out.println("opening file: "+path+filename);
          File file = new File(path+filename);
               FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(file);
               DatagramSocket udpsocket = new DatagramSocket();
               udpsocket.setSendBufferSize(1024);
               DatagramPacket packet;
               byte b[] = new byte[1024];
               int i = 0;
               while(fin.read(b) != -1){
                    i++;
                    packet = new DatagramPacket(b,b.length);
                    packet.setAddress(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"));
                    packet.setPort(5000);
                    System.out.println("send packet "+ i);
                    udpsocket.send(packet);
               b = new byte[1024];
               udpsocket.close();
Could you please explain me what can be wrong in this?
thanks a lot
sebastien

Answer 1

Since the VLC player gets the data, but does not do anything, then your protocol is wrong and/or missing commands and/or formatting-encoding of the stream.
You need to look at what and how the VLC player gets a stream.