How to stream video using C/C++

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I want to stream video to a file/ or memory buffer using VC++ on windows. Can anyone suggest easy to integrate library?(that has one H,one LIB and one DLL).

I am exploring the libVLC right now and gonna explore FFMPEG also. dont want to spend time in building these complex software fully myself, would appreciate any help/pointer/ references.

My ultimate goal is to stream a video and consume the stream on HTML5 viewer.
I tried streaming using VLC media player and streamed to a OGG file, I used same OGG file in a HTML5-Video tag and it worked.

Now I want to do the streaming part using libVLC instead of VLC media player. I want to stream the video file to File or memory stream.

I have found this sample https://wiki.videolan.org/Stream_to_memory_(smem)_tutorial/

BUt unsure of how to get started ? 1) Where do i get the libVLC.dll, libVLC.lib, libVLC.h , Is there any sample visual studio that has everything setup and I can straight begin to write the code using libVLC etc.

2) Since libVLC is said to depdend on 200+ other libraries/modules/plugins, what will I have include and distribute with my application ? http://www.enjoythearchitecture.com/vlc-architecture.html https://wiki.videolan.org/Contrib_Status/

3) streaming format : above example seems to stream into PCM format, cant I get it stream in some format that has better codec and regonized by HTML5 ? For example when i tried using VLC media player , my options were as following :sout=#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=800,acodec=vorb,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:file{dst=C:\Users\testUser\stream-output.ogg,no-overwrite} :sout-keep

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Finally I was able to get through VLC.

You need to download correct set of files

download 7z package from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

and thats all you need.

It has DLLs, LIBs, and Headers. thats all you need to get started.

Any sample program of VLC would require these three. If anybody need any help, please feel free to buzz me.

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Yes Arif, You are right. But One more thing you also need some plugins, they are also equally important. Plugins are also there(7z package), but until you will not put these plugins near exe file or set VLC_PLUGIN_PATH in environment variable, the application will not work.