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Hello forum, Even though this post is 8 months old I hope it is okay to resurrect it to inform the readers I seem to have found a workaround for any versions of VLC 3.0 or later not being to stream an IP camera using the http protocol. It seems VLC later than 3.0 does not recognize user names and/or...

You were right on the first count. I did not thoroughly read the documentation pages. I did not know that after running make in the contrib directory I then had to run ./configure and make from the uppermost directory of the uncompressed tarball. So thank you much.

Roy

Is it okay to put the build directory in the home directory? Any other directory would be root and I do not think I should compile as root. When I ran ./vlc I was in the build directory.

Hello VLC forum, I successfully compiled VLC 2.2.8 using the contrib method (static libraries) but I can not find the executable to launch VLC within the build directory in my home folder according to this page: https://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile/ The above page says the following command should ...

Hello again, The server (ip camera) works fine when being viewed through the Firefox browser. Unless VLC changed its authentication requirements from basic to something else, that would not be the problem since lower versions of VLC works fine with the camera. As far as Kwallet (KDE) being the probl...

vlc -vvv http://@192.168.1.72:8008/videostream.cgi (dialog box pops up but vlc rejects username and password) before putting username and password in dialog box [000056330e628a30] main libvlc debug: plug-ins loaded: 479 modules [000056330e628a30] main libvlc debug: opening config file (/home/roy/.co...

vlc -vvv http://camerahostname:hostname/videostream.cgi (no dialog box appears asking for username and password) [000055e884abba30] main libvlc debug: plug-ins loaded: 479 modules [000055e884abba30] main libvlc debug: opening config file (/home/roy/.config/vlc/vlcrc) [000055e884abbd70] main logger d...

Hello Forum, After version 3.0.0.0-0-35 VLC no longer streams the live image from my Foscam IP camera using the http protocol, from rpmfusion and unifiedRPMs in Fedora. http://username:password@camerahostname:portnumber/videostream.cgi gives me an 401 error message (authentication problem) http://us...