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it boiled down to what xtophe said, that v4l2 needed to be followed by 3 slashes. i had originally used only 2. so when i went to v4l2:///dev/vid... it worked.

i had also made some typos along the way. the bottom line of what works though is posted in my previous post in case others find it useful.

got this working with the following command and vlm config file. thanks to all who read/helped. command: vlc -I http --vlm-conf vlm1.conf vlm configuration file: new channel1 broadcast enabled setup channel1 input v4l2:///dev/video0:norm=secam:frequency=543250:size=640x480:channel=0:adev=/dev/video0...

i did another experiment and collected some more data about this. there is still a very big difficulty running 2 web cams. to test it, i tried just simple command line commands to show the 2 cams locally at the same time. it seems somewhere my system is getting confused there are indeed 2 cameras. f...

thank you. so i changed my config file to this: new channel1 broadcast enabled setup channel1 input v4l2:///dev/video0:norm=secam:frequency=543250:size=640x480:channel=0:adev=/dev/video0:audio=0 setup channel1 output #transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2}:standard{acces...

hi. i have been able to make some good progress on streaming a web cam both via the gui and command line. so i've added a second web cam to the same pc. when both web cams are in, i can access the local gui and get a picture on each one separately by first using /dev/video0, stopping that capture, t...

this is basically solved. thanks to those who read and provided feedback. for posterity, and those who may search on this later, here are some pointers on the items i addressed in getting this to work. - make sure you have the right drivers. this example used a logitech quickcam communicate mp (s 55...

also when connecting to the server from a different node, the same error is returned after a few seconds "main stream error: connot pre fill buffer"

any suggestions?

thanks.

also i should add yes i changed the sout to 192.168.1.5:1234 and removed any references to 127.0.0.1 -- that got rid of my connection refused error so thanks for the tip.

thanks also i used your suggestion with nmap. it did indeed show my server listening on port 1234 and ready for connection. so then i fired up the client and got no video output. just the gui screen itself, but no video screen. here is the command i used and messages: VLC media player 0.9.8a Grishen...

thanks for taking the time to reply. am giving that a try now.

note that in my example both the client and server are indeed on the same machine. does this change your thinking at all?

have to admit i'm having some difficulties. end goal is just to be able to stream live video from 2 webcams on 2 newborns. for now, i'm just trying to get the output of one vlc session to be sent to another. this is a first step toward putting it onto a web page, etc. but i'm very stuck. here are th...