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Also, if you have acces to a Windows or Linux PC, you could play it on VLC on the PC, have it transcode to another format, like mp4v/mp4a/mp4 .mp4, which VLC on the Mac should be OK with.

You might try launching using --extraintf logger -vvv That should open a separate console with maximum debugging information. Then try to open the card, both audio and video, just for a few seconds, then press the Stop button. Do a cut-and-paste, saving the contents of the logging console into a tex...

This is a Windows command line, but it's similar on Linux: :sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=ASFH,url=:1234}} It says to take whatever the source is, turn it into 1024K DIV3/192K mp3, and output it as mmsh, available on port ...

A "vanilla" setting would be: On the Dshow Input tab, as well as selecting the Video device, do a Refresh next to Audio device and select one from the dropdown list. If you actually plug a mic in, it'll record, otherwise you'll just have a blank audio channel. If you really don't want any ...

Afraid you may be stuck. I recently bought several Axis and a DLINK camera. The Axis were fine but the dlink, like your Linksys, wasn't really fully standard -- DLink would have required an NDA and/or my purchase of a special SDK. As a consumer, all I do is remove DLink from my allowed vendor list, ...

On Windows, I would launch with: --extraintf="rc" --rc-host="192.168.2.50:23" --rc-quiet On *nix, I believe you would get rid of the "=" signs, and skip the tird parameter (it's a Windows-specific thing) I would then open up my telnet-like program (Windows' built-in tel...

The Axis cameras may be a good bet -- do a search on this forum for Axis.

Stay away from the D-Link products, at least the DCS2100 -- they use a proprietary container that won't work with VLC.

Type in a higher number, like 4096

See:
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Color control was added over the last two weeks. I do not know if anyone has implemented control for text-based subtitles or not (I only knoq that it's in marq ant time filters).

Using Windows, the default wxwindows user interface: Select the thing you want to watch, whether a file or a Dshow camera input. (File -- Open). If you are doing the camera output, please make sure to set the Audio device to "none". Click the "Caching" button and type in 30000 to...

Thanks for reporting it. Operator error on my part...

No hints. I use Windows XP, both USB Webcam and Osprey framegrabber, and they work fine. Nothing against Linux at all, but I wouldn't bother changing the OS unless you just personally wanted to use Linux. If you do go the Linux route, you might want to check on the videolan Internet Relay Chat, see ...

Have to add that -- I don't have logo-file in RC yet, just the position and transparency controls. It'll be in in a day or so. Edit -- just enabled it, should be in the next nightly. usage from rc: logo-file the_path_and_filename for example: logo-file myfile.png for myfile.png in the main vlc direc...

Try vlc --longhelp --advanced Search in the output for "caching" On the linux side you will have a cache for the input device and a cache for the UDP output -- make both of those values, say, 30 On the Windows side you will have an input UDP cache (something like access-udp), and a display...

If screen depth didn't work, normally check for driver updates. Get the latest DirectX from Microsoft, and go to the NVidia site for their very latest drivers. If you have the very latest NVidia driver, and it causes a problem, you may need to seek one earlier driver. (Vendor drivers are an odd area...

You have the sout messed up, wrong format -- no output specified. Take a look at: http://videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.html For example: --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128,deinterlace}: standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=239.255.12.42,sap,name="TestStr...

--disable-dvd \ --disable-dvdnav \ --disable-dvdplay \ --disable-dvdread \ --without-dvdread \ You would not be able to play DVDs, with the above settings, I suspect. A couple of other handy ones, depending on your use: --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx \ Disable general cd and video CD. --disable-gala...

Doesn't look like it, though I don't know what the code was like before that variable was introduced.. There's similar code, in dshow, for Windows. That's an input buffer, at the vlc level, doesn't do anything to the card. What it's for is to provide a bit of smoothing if the input device (framegrab...

I don't know about 0.8.1, but I see that pvr.c of the current software does have a shortcut
--pvr-caching value_in_milliseconds

For a PCI card, the Viewcast Osprey 210 is a decent, reasonably priced item with good performance, 640x480 resolution, full 30 fps. I use this one myself, both Win2K and WinXP. For a USB frame grabber, the thing is to make sure that it has DirectX (directshow) support, as that's what VLC uses under ...

If what you mean is that the module is much larger, that is because it hasn't been stripped -- it still has a lot of symbolic debugging information in it. In Cygwin, at the directory where you did the make, enter: strip whatever_the_name_is.dll You should see that the module is now much smaller. Gen...

Your operating system?
Are you looking for just a framegrabber (something that takes a composite or s-video signal; from a camera), or do you need a tv tuner card?

I think you could, for example, size the output plus apply a crop filter, which will cut the final output to the crop size.

Not positive, but worth a try...

Yes, you can set caching (buffer length) at 30000 (milliseconds) to achieve a 30 second delay. Need to know what opearting system you are using, what version of VLC.. As to disk capacity, you don't have to store any of it, if you don't want to -- the 30 sec delay can be inserted in the live feed, by...