[vlc] Re: broadcasting from /dev/video

Benjamin PRACHT bigben at via.ecp.fr
Wed Jul 2 22:23:37 CEST 2003


On Wed, Jul 02, 2003, Jean-Christophe Heger wrote :
> Hi,
> 
> I need to find a solution to broadcast from a WinTV card (v4l). I've read the whole documentation, which only says to recompile (no such easy and takes a lot of time).
> 
> So, isn't it another solution, such as "ffmpeg | vlc" ?
> 
> By the way, I did compile the VLS from the CVS, but even with --enable-v4l, VLS warns that v4l is unknown. Even better, the conf file supplied with the CVS version don't talk anymore about grabbing from v4l. Is this function dead ???
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Jean-Christophe

v4l should work on vls-cvs. What exacly is the error ?

Alternatively, vlc also has v4l support, and is also able to stream.

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