[vlc] Re: Trying to get started

Jason Luka jason at geshp.com
Sun Nov 30 00:13:30 CET 2003 

Les LaZar wrote:

> 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
> [
> clearly I am doing something wrong.  Please help.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Les
>  

What does the output say when you run 'wv?'

Jason Luka

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