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I would say so... Not sure ffmpeg encoder is the best fit for HDTV... But I think you will more info on that looking in ffmpeg doc...

Do you get the same artifact when displaying the stream on the server (whithout streaming or encoding them) ?

well, 15 Mbit/s is already a lot for a standard sized (eg 640x480) video stream (for instance, a DVD stream is about 6-9 Mbit/s. I wouldn't be surprised if ffmpeg wasn't able to profit from bitrates high like this correctly...

this is aknown issue, and is related to VLC structure... this has (hopefully) been improved in 0.7.0-test1

Well, having vlc output a http stream accessible via http is quite easy (have a look at the v4l plugin and transcoding options). Embedding it in a webpage is a bit more tricky : you'll need a plugin. VLC have its own one, working on mozilla under linux, windows, and MacOSX. Windows Media player and ...

well, on linux, passwords are md5 encrypted...

On windows, just rempalce the md5 code by the password in plain text.

yes, but this output is very slow..

Disabling overlay (as stated before) should do the same...

Well, which OS are you using ?

Could you try to delete your preference file ? (it is called vlcrc, its location depends on the OS).

Could you send us content of the message dialog box, in the view menu ?

My last sentence meant taht I don't know whether the Dreambos was able to read a network strem (last time I played with one, it was unable to make so, but perhaps it has changed). Then, if the dreambox is able to recieve a network stream, you'll have to figure out which way : using http ou udp as a ...

Well, could you describe exactly what you are trying to do, and give us the exact command line you are using ?

Thanks.

As far as I know, the dreambox is unable to read MPEG4... so you'll have to transcode the stream in MPEG2 before sending it. Then, you'll have to make your dreambox receive the stream (via HTTP or UDP ?) and set VLC to send the stream the proper manner.

try

--sout http://

the stream will then be available on your server, on port 8080

Have a look at the stream output box in the open file menu : you can remux a file in ps (among others) or transcode it...

Well, most (all) graphic card doesn't support overlay on 2 screens.

Try disabling overlay in the video tab of the preferences of VLC

Well, had no proble streaming this file...

What version of VLC are you using, by the way ?

could you please send us log of what's happening exaclty during the hand (message box)

Well, VLC features a dshow input, which should work with most TV cards... Don't forget that if you card doen't feature a hadware encoding chip, this will have to be done by software, which is quite cpu consuming (about a PIV 1.6 GHz is required for real time full screen MPEG4 encoding). About the pl...

Well, could you send us a log, when trying to access a MPEG4 file ?

About you gui issue, you need the wxwindows library and headers to compile VLC's gui (the qt gui isn't maintained anymore).

There is currently no port of VLC for Windows CE.

WMP should be able to read files streams in MPEG1 or 4 over HTTP (and more with appropriate codecs). I think you'll be stuck to MPEG1 on PPC

Well, VLC is able to stream ES files muxed in TS...

What command line are you using exactly, could you send us the log ?

... or vlc stream:/dev/video

You could try increasing HTTP caching... (ine the prefs, modules, access, http)

Well,

VLS CVS might be a bit broken currently...

By the way, DVD streaming as well as transcoding can be done by VLC stream output...

Well... Although you card isn't supported by v4l, it could be possible to use it with VLC if it is able to outpu a valid MJPEG video stream to a pipe or a fifo... You'll then have to transode the stream (likely to MPEG1 if you want to use it with a PDA). VLC isn't supported under Pocke PC. However, ...

well, that really depends on what you want to stream (source : file, disk, network, encoding card...) and the number os streams...