Way OT: Streaming network media player help needed

I'm currently in California working with the Predator UAV guys, and one of the things we're doing is streaming a network video feed from their UAV to a local point in my datacenter so that I can display the video feed on some LCD's. The feed is just an NTSC/Mpeg2 (I believe) stream.

I've been using VLC Media Player for the last two days, and so far it's worked out well on the raw video. Basically you just open a unicast UDP stream and it plays the video, no prob.

The problem I'm having is that the stream itself is now encoded with CC/Meta and some other data layering, and it's causing VLC to crash immediately. I've tried having them stream it to multiple sources, all using VLC, and as soon as they turn on the encoded data, all 5 instances of VLC crash at the same time. Which, as you can imagine, sucks.

I'm hoping that it's just a bug with VLC, since it's making it page fault with some obscure error that I forgot to write down ( :\ ), but searching their tech support forums for it gets me no results.

Do any of you know of another media player that can open a unicast UDP stream? I've tried enabling it in Windows Media Player, with addresses like udp:// udp://@ udp://1.2.3.4:1234, etc and it immediately just comes back telling me that the stream is unavailable. With VLC all I did was tell it to listen to any UDP on a specified port, and it came right up.

Any advice would be mucho appreciated.

[TheHeartSmasher]

Have you tried windows media streaming server? or shoutcast. I have been trying to get videos and stuff to stream wiht VNC to work but have been experiecing the same problems.