client
A client can be anything capable of listening the stream.
Foloowing is about vlc and ffplay tool
ffplay
It can play a stream coming in suitable format as:.
ffplay http://<server_address/stream_origin>:<port_no>/output_file.file_type
ffplay http://192.168.1.2:8090/test.mpeg
vlc
It can play a stream coming in suitable format as:.
vlc http://<server_address/stream_origin>:<port_no>/output_file.file_type
cvlc http://192.168.1.2:8090/test.mpeg