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Try using fps=<framerate> on the command line with video command options.

Thanks for the suggestion. Is there any way to determine (or make an educated guess at) the frames per second of the incoming stream? Or even a likely range I should start experimenting with?

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I am trying to transcode an rtsp/sdp stream (H264 video, MPEG4) audio to MPEG-2. The original stream plays fine with VLC 0.8.6 but playback of the transcoded file produces audio but no video. The VLC output log just has " trying to send non-dated packet to stream output! " endlessly repeat...

The mp2a setting for acodec is no longer listed amongst the supported audio codecs in the VLC documentation, so I assume it is "deprecated". While it still seems to work for transcoding some streams, others will display the symptom you describe. Changing it to acodec=mpga will cure the pro...