[streaming] Re: Input type "v4l" invalid

[Johann Soukup]

Hi .

is v4l working proberly ? did you test with the commandline tools
which are coming with the v4l package ?
I think under SuSE 8.2 you have to install these additional packages.

Otherwise try v4l2 from Bill Dirks homepage.

Cheers

 - Johann

e-rohr at gmx.de schrieb:

> Hi, litttle problem:
>
> I'm using VLS on SuSE 8.2, and I want to stream from a webcam. So I
> configured VLS exactly the way suggested in the VideoLAN HOWTO (Chapter
> 8).
>
> But when I start the VLS (vls -vv -f vls.cfg) the following output comes
> onto the screen:
>
> VideoLAN Server v 0.5.3 (Jul  1 2003) - (c)1999-2003 VideoLAN
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "channel:file" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "channel:network" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegreader:file" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegconverter:ts2ts" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegconverter:ps2ts" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "input:local" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "input:video" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Browsing modules in directory "."
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Browsing modules in directory
> "/usr/local/lib/videolan/vls"
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegreader:dvd" registered
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Channel 'channel1' created
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [ERROR/Vls]  Input type "v4l" invalid
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [INFO/Vls]  Executing command1 : 'start video channel1
> webcam'
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [WARN/Vls]  Unknown pgrm video
> 2003-07-01 16:59:54 [WARN/Vls]  input doesn't exist
>
> Does anybody know where the error comes from???
>
> Here is my vls.cfg:
>
> # Streams sources declaration
> BEGIN "Inputs"
>    webcam                = "v4l"
> END
>
> BEGIN "webcam"
>    Device                = "/dev/video"
>    Channel               = "0"
>    Norm                  = "0"
>    Size                  = "QSIF"
>    DeInterlace           = "0"
>    Compression           = "mpeg4"
>    Bitrate               = "500"
>    Quality               = "1.0"
>    AudioDevice           = "/dev/dsp"
>    AudioCompression      = "mp3"
>    AudioBitrate          = "64"
>    AudioChannel          = "2"
> END
>
> BEGIN "Channels"
>    channel1              = "network"
> END
>
> BEGIN "channel1"         # The client is on the same host as the server
>    DstHost               = "192.168.2.1"
>    DstPort               = "1234"
> END
>
> BEGIN "LaunchOnStartup"
>    command1 = "start video channel1 webcam"
> END
>
> Thanks, Ewald....
>
>
>
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