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I followed the wiki, several times.

I do the make prebuilt, but apparently it is not getting caca, cucul, openjpeg, live555 stuff.

Better results at home, where I have a cleaner build environment and working git (I dropped msysgit files right into my Ming folder, so I now have a pretty normal command-line git from MSys). Location of the current built Windows contribs? Even at home I see the complaints of missing contribs, like ...

Trying the msys environment. Fetching the contribs, doing "make prebuilt", it looks like caca, cucul, png, openjpeg aren't coming through. Maybe something getting blocked at work? Also, I noticed that following the MSys environment writeup, liblua ends up being installed in MSys under loca...

Same result, unfortunately: vlc c:\temp\_out.mp4 :run-time=4 :sout=#file{dst=c:\\temp\\_out11.mp4} Spools the entire file out to out11. Workaround is that I can watch the file live while having it spool to a new file, then stop the view where I need to truncate, but working :stop-time would be stell...

On both 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 I don't seem to get stop-time to work on Win7, from a command line. Start-time seems to work fine, no problem clipping the front part of a video. The application is pretty simple, just: vlc c:\temp\_out.mp4 :start-time=5 :stop-time=326 :sout=#file{dst=c:\\temp\\_out2.mp4} :so...

Building the latest VLC off of git, updated as of 6 hours ago. Very latest Cygwin tools. Need to make the ECHO= to echo= substitution in multiple of the contribs, plus in VLC's own root libroot file. Is there a reasonable way to automate that change during the build process (ifdef CYGWIN execute a S...

It sounds like you've described your problem, and solution, accurately -- you need deinterlacing to clean up the horizontal lines you get due to high motion in an interlaced video.

Both video and audio are fine with VLC.

You can probably do that if the Linux box is looking for a UDP source stream. A windows startup command line to do this would look something like: vlc udp://@ :sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=512,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=127.0.0.1:1234}} What th...

Is just the VLC window area black, or the entire TV output? If the latter, make sure you have a TV plugged in before you turn on the output -- sometimes you need a load on the video output connector before it can be turned on.

Yes -- if you are using the Stream Out user interface, just type in 4096 in the box. (4M is what I use if I wish to make a DVD)

These are different things. DirectX is used for: 1) Video acquisition (Webcams, framegrabbers, tv tuner cards...) 2) Video display (under Windows you can use DirectX video output, or OpenGL, with some video cards doing better with one or the other) ASF is an "encapsulation method", a conta...

mpeg ts chops things up into little 188 byte packets. The norm in VLC is to then put 7 of these packets together into one Ethernet packet (since 7x188 < 1500 bytes, a "normal" MTU) Do a search for ISO 13818-1 on the Web -- it gives you the definition of what is in a transport stream (a bit...

Try using the --sout-ffmpeg-strict-rc switch to get a tighter control on bitrate, if using mp2v/mp4v/DIV3 (not positive on the last one, but it may work). I'm not sure what would affect h264, unfortunately.. I'm surprised you're getting such a large delta, though. I did some test runs with h264 a ha...

Go to the developers page, then the VLC page off of that. There's a Documentation link, a PDF file called working Cygwin compile environment. You download the latest contrib package, which contains pre-compiled libraries for use on Windows. I suggest using a current subversion snapshot, not 0.8.1 --...

Is the video raw, or encoded?

To stream you need to encode the video, for example to DIV3 or mp4v

Yes, it was an April Fool's.

The latest nightly builds, the real thing, are always available, but there hasn't been a new formal release point since 0.8.1.

I believe this could be called a known problem (VLC - VLC at higher rates, using mmsh/asfh; a variant occurs in a VLC - WMP scenario, where the WMP client keeps rebuffering). Not sure what the answer is, but it's being looked at a bit.

Lack of knowledge on my part -- what is the DU meter? On the first PC, at a command line (console) a ping to the second PC works OK? Your command line looks something like: vlc thing_to_stream :sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=udp,mux...

I use the Osprey for dubbing from tape (VHS), with VLC. I just connect the VCR L/R output jacks to the Osprey input jacks. Then, in VLC, I do a Refresh next to Audio device, select "Osprey-210 Audio Device 1". I do use the latest drivers from Viewcast, for Windows XP. If you have Win2K you...

I don't know of a way.

If you are trying to stream a DVD, launch with dvdsimple:// instead of dvd://

dvdsimple will play the entire movie, beginning to end. You cannot pick languages or subtitles -- it just does a basic play of the entire film.

I use the 210 under Windows, sound is fine, no breaks.

Correct, it doesn't -- that is a proprietary ON2 video codec. No way to add it to VLC.

Are you doing addressed UDP, where you send to the specific gigabit Ethernet IP?

If you're using multicast, the common problem would be that you need to do
route add
At either the server or client (sometimes both), to tell the PC(s) which interface to use for multicast.

I put in the sample command line, on the wiki, to try and give a clear idea of what it should look like. Sorry I couldn't give a Mac or Linux version of that line, since I don't use those OS'. If someone using the other OS' could add the proper command line syntax to use, in the wiki, that would be ...