<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi,</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I posted this on the vlc users mailing list but got no reply. Maybe you guys can help!<br></font><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm trying to use VLC to convert a video to the http live streaming format that is needed for streaming to an iPhone / iPad. I'm following the guide on the wiki (<a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Streaming_for_the_iPhone" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204)" target="_blank">http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Streaming_for_the_iPhone</a>) but am coming across problems when running the example commands.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
I am using a git checkout from last Friday and building on Linux Mint 11 with the dependencies from "sudo apt-get build-dep vlc", and configured with the following command:</div><div>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222"><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">./configure --disable-alsa --disable-caca --disable-lua --disable-nls \</font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --disable-libv4l2 --disable-dvbpsi --disable-dbus \</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --disable-dbus-control --disable-qt4 --disable-sdl --disable-skins2 \</font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --disable-speex --disable-xcb --disable-xvideo --enable-a52 \</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --enable-avcodec --enable-avformat --enable-dv --enable-dvdnav \</font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --enable-faad --enable-flac --enable-freetype --enable-fribidi \</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-mad --enable-mkv --enable-ncurses \</font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --enable-ogg --enable-png --enable-real --enable-schroedinger \</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> --enable-swscale --enable-theora --enable-vorbis --without-x</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><br></div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">It compiles successfully and I can see the livehttp when I list the modules:</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">mike@tigger ~/Desktop/vlc $ ./vlc --list | grep http</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">VLC media player 1.2.0-pre1 Twoflower (revision ad07788)</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace"> stream_filter_httplive Http Live Streaming stream filter</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace"> access_output_livehttp HTTP Live streaming output</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace"> access_output_http HTTP stream output</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace"> access_http HTTP input</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">However when I run the first example listed on the wiki page I get the following output:</div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">mike@tigger ~/Desktop/vlc $ ./vlc -I dummy --mms-caching 0 <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx" target="_blank">http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx</a> vlc://quit --sout='#transcode{width=320,height=240,fps=25,vcodec=h264,vb=256,venc=x264{aud,profile=baseline,level=30,keyint=30,ref=1},acodec=mp3,ab=96}:std{access=livehttp{seglen=10,delsegs=true,numsegs=5,index=/var/www/streaming/mystream.m3u8,index-url=<a>http://mydomain.com/streaming/mystream-########.ts</a>},mux=ts{use-key-frames},dst=/var/www/streaming/mystream-########.ts}'</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">VLC media player 1.2.0-pre1 Twoflower (revision ad07788)</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">Warning: option --mms-caching no longer exists.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">Warning: option --mms-caching no longer exists.</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">[0x7f7d18001868] main interface error: no suitable interface module</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">[0xdbb2c8] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">[0x7f7d18001868] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">[0xe71d18] stream_out_standard stream out error: no suitable sout mux module for `livehttp{seglen=10,delsegs=true,numsegs=5,index=/var/www/streaming/mystream.m3u8,index-url=<a>http://mydomain.com/streaming/mystream-########.ts}/ts{use-key-frames}:///var/www/streaming/mystream-########.ts</a>'</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">[0xe8f7a8] main stream output error: stream chain failed for `transcode{width=320,height=240,fps=25,vcodec=h264,vb=256,venc=x264{aud,profile=baseline,level=30,keyint=30,ref=1},acodec=mp3,ab=96}:std{access=livehttp{seglen=10,delsegs=true,numsegs=5,index=/var/www/streaming/mystream.m3u8,index-url=<a>http://mydomain.com/streaming/mystream-########.ts</a>},mux=ts{use-key-frames},dst=/var/www/streaming/mystream-########.ts}'</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">[0xe8bc98] main input error: cannot start stream output instance, aborting</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="'courier new', monospace">[0xe7f4f8] idummy demux: command `quit'</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">I had a git version of this running back in September 2010 with no problems but now can't get past this error. Am I doing something wrong or is this a regression bug? If it's a bug where should I report it? vlc-devel mailing list or somewhere else?</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks</div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mike</div>
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