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I am currently working with an IP camera as well. My first step was to contact the manufacturer of the camera to find out how to correctly connect to it through VLC. For our IP camera we needed a string specific to the camera to pass into VLC.

In sample code for Libvlc_video_take_snapshot: http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_Thumbnailer there is specific code having to do with waiting for the position changed event. What is this all about? Is it somethign I need? I am currently not even setting my position, since I am receiving a l...

I get the feeling that maybe I provide too much information and make it too hard to find my question. I think what this all comes down to, and what will eventually solve my problem is: How do I use the mediacontrol_snapshot function? It keeps returning with an error of "Snapshot exception"...

I called libvlc_media_player_has_vout right before I try to take the snapshot, thinking it seemed relevant, but it returned a 1 for true. Are there any other functions I could be calling , or tests I could be running to figure out if any part of my system is setup incorrectly? I may just try to star...

First of all, thank you both very much for the replies. you are supplying a width and height of zero to the dll, try entering the dimensions of the output? i.e. libvlc_video_take_snapshot_dll(m_media_player, "D:\Data\picture.png", 1024, 768, &ex); I tried this, and even went so far as ...

I have also tried using mediacontrol_snapshot, since I could just as easily save the image data on my own. But I am having the same level of success. Another idea I am trying is sorting through the vlc code to see if I could maybe make my own function, but I am having trouble figuring all of that ou...

I am developing around vlc 1.0.2 (but would change to any other version if needed) in C++ for a program to be run on windows xp. I am just trying to have a snapshot of my video feed save on my hard drive. I have searched around a bit, found a few examples, but mine will still not work. I get the fee...

I am working with vlc version 1.0.2, and cannot figure out how to tell the player to stop trying to maintain the aspect ratio with padding. Ultimately I would like to be able to specifically tell the player to never pad, and stretch to an extent, past that point it would start cropping. But, at this...

Not sure if your problems have already been resolved, but I did get my solution for this problem working recently. First I tell VLC what I want the window to be named: "--video-title", "directxVLC" After that you can use the name to get the handle to the window: handleVLC = FindW...

Hmm. I have tried setting the parent to NULL, always does the same thing for me, with both my window and vlc's showing up at the same time. There must be some other variable that I am not aware of. This solution would have been ideal, but once I got the impression that it would never work I moved on...

First of all, thank you both very much for the responses. It seems you are calling set_hwnd after VLC created its window. This cannot work. As far as I can tell I set the handle as soon as possible: m_media_player = libvlc_media_player_new_from_media_dll (m_media, &ex); catchException (&ex);...

I am currently running vlc version 1.0.2 through C++ in embedded windows xp, and I need to have vlc draw to a window that I have created. I used to just have VLC display in its own window, but had to change that for issues discussed here: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=65508. So,...

I am using vlc with liblive555 to decode and display an MPEG4 video feed from an RTSP live stream. My problem is that every so often the feed seems to skip a few frames, which does not look so great. I was hoping that having a larger cache would help, but even at 10 seconds I do not see any differen...

I am using vlc to display an MPEG 4 live video stream. My problem is that the video appears to slow down, speed up, and possibly skip a block of frames every so often. In-between these errors, the feed looks fine. I am wondering which of the many settings would have a chance at smoothing out the fee...

Right now I am using VLC on an embedded windows system to communicate with an ip camera, in order to receive a multicast MPEG4 stream. This is all working, I have a buffer that VLC writes to, and I read from that buffer to render the video to the screen. I am using C++ along with a propitiatory &quo...

I have an ip camera that is sending out a multicast mpg4 video stream through rtp. I know the multicast IP address and port number, but using the vlc GUI I am not able to figure out how to connect to the group to receive the stream. As far as I know I need an IGMP enabled switch for this to work (wh...

Refresher on what I am trying to do: I am using C++ with vlc to connect to a server that is streaming an RTSP video feed. All of that is working fine, my problem is knowing when the server is not there. I figured out how to do this, it involved setting up an event manager, and listening for certain ...

I am reading a rtsp feed through the following code. The stream itself is working fine, my problem is that if the stream dies (say by unplugging the CAT6 cable) I can not get it to recover without making another call to my init code. This is fine, but I can not even tell when the stream has died, or...