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I have used vlc for viewing ip cameras for some time. I have shortcuts with the urls entered. After the latest update the video playback performance has been sluggish. While trying to correct this I've found that if I enter the url into the Ctrl+N menu the playback is normal. Here is a sample of the...

With no v4l support in freebsd. Would it be possible to use pass 'cat /dev/cxm0 | vlc ?? stream???' in the vlm telnet session??
I tried several diff combos in the telnet session but it just errors. I can cat /dev/cxm0 > file.mpg but would like to just stream from the device.

If your willing to switch from vlc, you could use motion on freebsd or linux. I use motion at work with several ip cameras set for motion detection record only.
Motion has a built in web server for each camera. Cpu loading is lite. HTH

I have a capture card on a freebsd computer dumping captures to a file on a local network share folder. I am able to watch the file with vlc on other bsd computers just fine. My windows computers with VLC will play the file but not continue past the size of the file when the play started. I'm playin...