VLC with HTTP??

Stéphane Borel stef at via.ecp.fr
Thu May 17 13:09:56 CEST 2001


On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:14:21PM +0530, mayuresh at vsnl.com wrote:
> I wrote the original query, I am facing a funny problem:
> I just can't start VLC at all.
> I executed ./vlc <filename>.dat it just went on with opening and closing the file... (the file is from a VCD, should I try it with a normal MPEG4 file?)

	VCD movies are not handled yet ; the stream format is mpeg but
	we need a special decaps. A vlc developer is on the affair.

	Vlc Does not handle mpeg4 files, only mpeg1-2.
 
> BTW till date I have never been able to run VLC to view even a single movie, I have configured it with fb, qt and x11 support and statically compiled it, bu to no avail.
> 
> I tried running it in X, I tried running it on pure framebuffer, but it just won't work.

	That's sad, could you send log messages (vlc -vvvvvv) ?

-- 
Stef




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