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Hi all, I am trying the same: live-streaming of a webcam to an html-embedded flash player. Basicly it works: the flash player starts up and plays the stream. But after a few seconds it just stops. Very strange.. I used vlc version 0.9.0-git Grishenko with this commandline: vlc -I dummy v4l:///dev/vi...

Hi there, I haven't found the perfect solution yet. But you could start trying with this. Start vlc with (one line) vlc -Idummy v4l:/dev/video0:size=160x120 --no-audio --sout '#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=128,scale=1}:std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=:8080/stream.asf}' Where /dev/video0 is the video source...

I'd like to try that.
Can you give me a hint, where to look on?
Totally different streams (codecs, video...) must be totally different, except the mms protocol, which I don't know.

Even if other mms streams from the net are beeing played well?
Though I did start an thread which isn't unanswered since yesterday.

With Windows Media Player and vlc there is no problem at all. DIV3 didn't make an difference. The device can be played back with :display. I guess, it is an mplayer issue. As said earlier, when I changed streaming to access=http, mplayer plays the stream just fine. But then the Windows Media Player ...

When I start vlc with vlc -vvv -I dummy --noaudio v4l:/dev/video0:size=320x240 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=256,scale=1}:standard{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,url=:8080/stream.asf}' nothing changes. mplayer still stays forever "connected", but doesn't play anything. I cant see filling the buf...

Hello I want to stream my webcam to my webpages. I use vlc -I dummy --noaudio v4l:/dev/video0:size=320x240 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=256,scale=1}:standard{access=mmsh,mux=avi,url=:8080/stream.avi}' to start my stream. But when I try to access it with mplayer: mplayer mms://127.0.0.1:8080/str...