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Wow!!! Finally, somebody with the same configuration and ... the same problem... I've only one question : have you solved your problem? I am curious, since I had similar experience (mpeg4 over wlan, late frames, etc...), but I think such behaviour is, ehm, normal? 1. the garbled video is expected -...

MJPEG should work without any refreshing, IMHO.

It is a continous stream of JPEG pictures, with additional (text?) header info.

It works perfectly for me using vlc 0.8.6f and Axis 207/207W cameras.

Maybe you supplied camera url with the static JPEG image to vlc instead of url of MJPEG stream?

Solved.

Apparently vlc expects some font files (Free*) in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont

In my Suse 10.3, the "freefont" subfolder does not exist.

Created, copied Free* fonts into it, works.

Dear all, I have tried to use new subfilters in vlc 0.8.6f on Linux (SuSe 10.3), but I cannot get any of the filters to display anything, the screen looks exactly the same as without the filter. Specifically, the line: vlc --sub-filter=marq --marq-marquee="Obvious Watermark" --marq-positio...

The only headache remaining is ffmpeg, which stubbornly declares "video is 5 seconds late, computer too slow?"), every 5 seconds or so, abruptly killing almost-smooth playback, which then needs second or two to reinitialize. How do I prevent this (by giving instructions to ffmpeg through ...

Dear All, I seem to have same problem as many users before. I almost found the solution for MY particular case, but a final part in the puzzle still bothers me. (bit of background explanation, if you know the answer to the question in subject, please skip to the end, thanks) In short: VLC keeps losi...