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Hi :) i want to use vlc to extract audio from a video file. using sout to write a file works just fine. but i also need to seek to a certain position where the "ripping" begins, as well as specify where it stops. mplayer has the commandline arguments "-ss" and "-endpos"...

1) is there any version of vlc contained in that original ubuntu 6.06 LTS cd and how can I install it. If I can get it installed will it be sufficient to play dvds or I will have to install some codecs, libraries or "regionset"s? where from and how? Frankly, I have no idea whether VLC is ...

wtf ? i hope im not making a fool of myself by replying to a bot.
of course its the director that directed, amongst other movies, "bad taste". you can look up the rest on imdb.com.

oh, thanks for the input. i now remember that i got the info about theora being in a "development" state from xiph.org, but i confused it with ffmpeg. either way, i have not yet heard from either source about an optimized theora encoder. so is it really true that my servers CPU should be a...

Hi guys. :) Its been a couple of years that I have been using VLC to fulfill my streaming needs, and I have not been able to get over the fact that my server does not have enough CPU power to stream theora video on the fly. I know that theora has been in an experimental (i.e. "lets develop it f...

Hi Hortus, yes, that is often possible. How ? Simply open the file using VLC. If that doesn't work out of the box, then it is very likely that it wont work in any other way. At the moment two reasons for it not to work come into my mind. The first one is that it might be a file format which is not s...

yes, what you are trying to do is possible. the "streaming howto" that you can can find under "documentation" on the videolan.org homepage tells you basically all you need to know, but its a bit hard to get into when you don't know where to begin. i'll try to keep it short: you n...

have you tried using recent versions of VLC's dependencies ? trying to use VLC 0.8.6 might do the trick as well, but both suggestions are a shot into the blue.
if you only relay a stream on your machine, then maybe alternative software, such as icecast, might do the trick for you as well.

what about yum install videolan-client ? i've heard of people having problems with that, tho. since im not a fedora expert, you might want to google for "+vlc +yum.conf". if you seriously want to compile everything on your own, then have a look at the "*nix Compile HOWTO" at http...

hehe, seems like i checked it out just some hours too early

apparently the latest ffmpeg revisions don't not like VLC very much (i tried using it on yesterdays trunk checkout as well as on 0.8.6).
it looks like compatibility broke on november 13th.

ffmpeg revision 6329 works fine, tho.

VLC 0.8.6 is in the Edgy Universe repository (vlc_0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1ubuntu1_i386.deb). Can you maybe post your Apache2 logfile entries that VLC is creating when trying to play something ? :) And... is your webserver accessible from the web somehow ? If so, could you post a link to an example...

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1. Is it possible to transcode avi on the fly? yes. :) 2. Can anyone help me do it? Hmmm, not me. But here's my two cents: Once you configured VLC to correctly open the source (no matter if its a DVD or an avi file), then you can process the video according to the VLC output formats. VLC is "d...

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not sure if it helps, but here's my bash script that I use to rip various streams: /usr/local/bin/mplayer -quiet -dumpstream -dumpfile ~/rip/$filename $url 2>> /dev/null >> /dev/null & echo $! >/tmp/$filename.pid sleep $length && kill `cat /tmp/$filename.pid` this can be applied to VLC j...

Hi Mat, try selecting VIEW / PLAYLIST in your VLC window, and check if you can select your stream of choice. to me it sounds as if you are dealing with playlists, which, in turn, point to the actual stream addresses. if you ever encounter a stream URL which begins with "http://", then try ...

you might want to have a look at this: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/08/30/ipod-video-howto i have not tried this myself, but superficially it seems to me that this might at least hint you in the right direction. personally i rarely use vlc as an encoder. i love vlc for its capabilities as a...

Hi crux, I followed the instructions in ubuntuguide.org for editing the repositories then installed automatix2 still according to ubuntuguide then used automatix2 to install some applications including vlc. The version that was installed is vlc 0.8.6. I have no idea what there is wrong between VLC a...

why reinvent the wheel ? the VLC team implemented the relatively new version of the wmv codec, and that has probably been a more complicated job than you imagine. :) alternatively you might want to get the very latest mplayer, though. it supports the latest wmv formats as well, and it shouldn't be m...

Hi namesake :) Are you sure you installed VLC with synaptic ? I am on Ubuntu (6.10 / Edgy) myself, and the official version in the repositories is 0.8.6 (not 0.8.4 !). Have you tried an "apt-get update" / "apt-get upgrade", in case you recently upgraded from dapper to edgy ? I re...

hmm, i cant give you an out-of-the-box solution, either. but i guess you ran the bootstrap and configure scripts, because otherwise you would not have come this far. what seems strange to me is that the compile error (its a compile error, right?) occurs within one of the source files that belongs to...

first of all, sorry... i dont know any good tutorial on this topic. :/ but what exactly are you trying to do ? do you need support for a broad variety of codecs in your player, or do you supply those video files yourself (i.e. can you choose the codecs that need to be played back, yourself?) ? if yo...

Hi guys, for some time I have been trying to get an at least moderately current version of VLC running on my debian sarge dedicated server. this sounds a little dramatic, but I am having serious problems getting this nice thing to run properly. my latest attempt was grabbing the latest versions of t...