[vlc] Re: Help with VLM and webcam

Benjamin Pracht bigben+spam at videolan.org
Tue Sep 6 07:54:00 CEST 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005, Jim Duda wrote :
> I'm struggling to figure out how to get vlc (vlm) to stream from a webcam on 
> /dev/videol.  I realize that
> I need to transcode, but I cannot seem to figure out how to get it to work.
> 
> This is what I do:
> 
> new Test vod enable
> setup Test input v4l:/dev/video2
> setup Test output 
> #transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128,deinterlace}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://0.0.0.0:554/test.sdp}
> 
> When I attempt to use the client:
> 
> vlc rtsp://<host>/test.sdp
> 
> I get:
> 
> [00000262] livedotcom demuxer error: describeURL failed (cannot handle 
> DESCRIBE response: RTSP/1.0 404 Not found)
> 
> I can see that <host> is listening on port 554.
> 
> When I attempt to use an mpg file as input, all seems to work, so I'm close.
> 

Could you please start the server with the -vv option and give us the
log ?

-- 
BigBen

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