[vlc] Trying to get started

[Les LaZar]

Greetings all,

Having finally gotten vlc installed on my system (VIA C3 1GHz, RH9 2.4.20-19.9 kernel), I am now trying to see how it works.

The system has a Hauppauge WinTV Go board that work ok with xawtv, so I am confident that the hardware is functional.

For my initial test, I want to display the composite video input of the WinTV board (the video source is an external video camera) on the local display.  I am using the standard RH9 Gnome desktop.

Per Benjamin Pracht's instructions (thanks, Ben) I opened a terminal window and entered:

vlc stream:/dev/video0

No error messages and the VLC Client dialog box appeared, reporting stream:/dev/video0 as the input_source (I presume), but no display window appears.

I closed the VLC Client box and was returned to the command prompt in the terminal window, so I tried:

vlc -vvv stream:/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1 --sout '#display'

with the following results:

VideoLAN Client 0.6.1 Trevelyan
[00000000] main root debug: VLC media player - version 0.6.1 Trevelyan - (c) 1996-2003 VideoLAN
[00000000] main root debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-release --enable-dvdread --enable-dvdplay --enable-dvbpsi --enable-v4l --enable-vcd --enable-mad --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg=/usr --enable-faad --enable-xvid --enable-dv --enable-flac --enable-theora --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo --disable-qte --disable-directx --enable-fb --enable-aa --without-wingdi --enable-oss --enable-esd --enable-arts --enable-alsa --disable-waveout --enable-gtk --disable-familiar --enable-gnome --enable-qt --enable-kde --disable-opie --disable-macosx --disable-qnx --disable-intfwin --enable-ncurses --enable-xosd --enable-lirc --enable-pth --disable-st --enable-mozilla --disable-testsuite --enable-plugins
[00000001] main vlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/llazar/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main vlc warning: config file /home/llazar/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet
[00000000] main root debug: checking builtin modules
[00000000] main root debug: checking plugin modules
[00000000] main root debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000000] main root debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000000] main root warning: cannot open `/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libqt_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libqt_plugin.so: undefined symbol: static_QUType_int)
[00000000] main root debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main vlc debug: module bank initialized, found 154 modules
[00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/llazar/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main vlc warning: config file /home/llazar/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet
[00000001] main vlc debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow! FPU
[00000001] main vlc debug: looking for memcpy module
[00000001] main vlc debug: probing 3 candidates
[00000005] main module debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmx"
[00000172] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000172] main playlist debug: thread 16386 (playlist) created at priority 0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:80)
[00000172] main playlist debug: adding playlist item ? stream:/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1 ? ( stream:/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1 )
[00000172] main playlist debug: creating new input thread
[00000173] main input: playlist item `stream:/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1'
[00000173] main input debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000173] main input debug: thread 32771 (input) created at priority 0 (src/input/input.c:177)
[00000173] main input debug: playing at normal rate
[00000174] main interface debug: looking for interface module
[00000174] main interface debug: probing 7 candidates
[00000114] main module debug: using interface module "wxwindows"
[00000174] main interface debug: interface initialized
[00000173] main input debug: access `stream', demux `', name `/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1'
[00000173] main input debug: looking for access module
[00000173] main input debug: probing 8 candidates
[00000173] access_file input warning: cannot stat() file `/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1' (No such
file or directory)
[00000173] dvdplay input warning: cannot stat() source `/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1' (No such file or directory)
[00000173] dvdread input warning: cannot stat() source `/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1' (No such file or directory)
[00000173] dvd input warning: cannot stat() device `/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1' (No such file or directory)
[00000173] vcd input warning: could not open /dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1
[00000173] cdda input warning: could not open /dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=640x480:channel=1
[00000173] v4l input debug: WxH 640x480
[00000173] v4l input debug: video device=`/dev/video0'
[00000173] v4l input debug: audio device=`(null)'
[00000174] main interface debug: thread 49156 (manager) created at priority 0 (src/interface/interface.c:118)
[00000173] v4l input debug: V4L device BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) 4 channels 1 audios 48 < w < 924 32 < h < 576
[00000173] v4l input debug: setting channel Composite1(1) 0 tuners flags=0x2 type=0x2 norm=0x0
[00000173] v4l input debug: v4l device uses frame size: 460800
[00000173] v4l input debug: v4l device uses chroma: I420
[00000173] v4l input: v4l grabbing started
[00000030] main module debug: using access module "v4l"
[00000173] main input debug: looking for demux module
[00000173] main input debug: probing 18 candidates
[00000173] mp4 input warning: MP4 plugin discarded (unseekable)
[00000173] avi input warning: avi module discarded (invalid header)
[00000173] v4l input debug: added new video es I420 640x480
[00000173] main input debug: selecting ES 0x1
[00000175] main decoder debug: looking for packetizer module
[00000175] main decoder debug: probing 7 candidates
[00000140] main module debug: using packetizer module "packetizer_copy"
[00000175] packetizer_copy decoder: Running copy packetizer
[00000175] main decoder debug: thread 65541 (decoder) created at priority 0 (src/input/input_dec.c:112)
[00000031] main module debug: using demux module "v4l"
[00000176] main stream output debug: stream=`display'
[00000177] main private debug: looking for sout stream module
[00000177] main private debug: probing 1 candidate
[00000148] main module debug: using sout stream module "stream_out_display"
[00000175] main decoder debug: waiting for sout
[00000176] main stream output debug: adding a new input
[00000173] main input debug: selecting ES 0xc
[00000178] main decoder debug: looking for decoder module
[00000178] main decoder debug: probing 17 candidates
[00000079] main module debug: using decoder module "rawvideo"
[00000178] main decoder debug: no usable vout present, spawning one
[00000179] main video output debug: looking for video output module
[00000179] main video output debug: probing 7 candidates
[00000179] xvideo video output warning: no free XVideo port found for format 0x30323449 (I420)
[00000179] xvideo video output warning: no free XVideo port found for format 0x32595559 (YUY2)
[00000179] xvideo video output warning: no free XVideo port found for format 0x36315652 (RV16)
[00000178] main decoder debug: thread 81926 (decoder) created at priority 0 (src/input/input_dec.c:112)
Segmentation fault
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clearly I am doing something wrong.  Please help.

Thanks,

Les
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