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Hi! I'm trying to get every n'th image out of a stream. I found out that if I use --image-out-format=png, the image quality is stellar. If I use --image-out-format=jpg the images are small, but the quality is quite bad - jpg-s are far to much compressed. Is there a command line option for setting ou...

Hi! I'm new to VLC and I try to get as low latency as possible. I'm looking for advice... My setup: - linux box with zoran card, that works with v4l2 - ubuntu 8.10 - windows box with vlc for playing the stream - 100MBit LAN My streaming command: cvlc v4l2:// :v4l2-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l2-...

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I found out that my error was caused by using "--image-out-width=-1 --image-out-height=-1" - my card gives stupid dimensions of the frames. If I set those hard, it works. And I found that out just by adding -v.

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Thank you! I've searched and i found it!!! Here is what I have: cvlc v4l2:// :v4l2-vdev="/dev/video0" -V image --image-out-format=png --image-out-width=-1 --image-out-height=-1 --image-out-prefix=aaaaaaa --image-out-ratio=25 and this gives me: [00000509] avcodec encoder error: cannot open ...

Hi! I have a job assignment and I want to use VLC for it. I have to create a stream server, that would just stream video/audio inputs from input cards in realtime or near realtime (2 secs delay max). I've read some great howtos and will start trying myself with the help of google first - no question...