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This is listed in Trac under #2022 , http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2022 Caused by windows recv call returning -1 (and WSAEWOULDBLOCK via WSAGetLastError() ) if there is no data waiting for it. WinSock would prefer you to use select() calls to poll a socket for data I guess. There are several w...

I think it might have something to with the pc file: $ cat libavcodec.pc prefix=/usr/local exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=$(PREFIX)/lib includedir=$(PREFIX)/include Name: libavcodec Description: FFmpeg codec library Version: 51.56.0 Requires: libavutil = 49.6.0 Conflicts: Libs: -L${libdir} -lavcodec L...

Oh? I use "vlc -I dummy --dummy-quiet --extraintf telnet" to get it to work, would using '--control=telnet' be better? It's not just xp telnet that fails btw. Any telnet fails, not letting you specify a password at all but disconnecting immediatly after 'Password:'. Curious since on linux ...

For some weird reason telnet as primairy interface fails. Try this: vlc -I dummy --dummy-quiet --extraintf telnet