[streaming] failure streaming with vls from webcam

[Robert Asiimwe]

Hi there.

I have tried to stream from a Logitech webcam using vls and have failed.On adpting the vls.cfg file to that as recommended on the site(only changing the destination address) and using the command 'vls -vv -f vls.cfg',it simply says the input webcam is invalid as detailed in the output below?As in the output below I see other inputs(e.g local inputs)are initialised.If the webcam input worked,how would I make sure vlc selects just the correct stream from all those initialised by the above used command.I have also failed to download the ffmpeg package coz 'ffmpeg.sourceforge.net' is not an active site.Do you know of another place I could download it from? I will be very grateful for any solutions.

the output below is obtained from vls on trying to use the 'vls -vv -f vls.cfg'command.

VideoLAN Server v 0.5.4 (Jun 26 2004) - (c)1999-2003 VideoLAN 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "channel:file" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "channel:network" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegreader:file" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegconverter:ts2ts" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegconverter:ps2ts" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "input:local" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "input:video" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Browsing modules in directory "." 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Browsing modules in directory "/usr/local/lib/videolan/vls" 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegreader:dvd" registered 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Channel 'localhost' created 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Channel 'channel1' created 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Channel 'client1' created 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [ERROR/Vls]  Input type "v4l" invalid 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Starting input 'local1' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/local1]  Added program 'test' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/local1]  Added program 'canyon' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/local1]  Added program 'film' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/local1]  Added program 'matrix' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Input 'local1' sucessfully initialised 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Starting input 'kfir' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Input 'kfir' sucessfully initialised 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  New admin group "monitor" is ok 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  New admin group "master" is ok 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  New admin user "monitor" is ok 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  New admin user "bozo" is ok 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Executing command2 : 'start 28009 client1 dvb' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [WARN/Vls]  Unknown pgrm 28009 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [WARN/Vls]  input doesn't exist 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [INFO/Vls]  Executing command1 : 'start video channel1 webcam' 
2004-07-01 00:34:46 [WARN/Vls]  input doesn't exist 
 



		
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