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Back to the original problem: I'm seeing that here too, using an SAA7134-based, recent TV card. vlc appears unable to choose a format that is supported by this card, and fails at that point. Debug excerpt (this is vlc-0.8.4a) [00000223] main playlist debug: adding playlist item `v4l://' ( v4l:// ) [...

Is vlc _really_ still using v4l interface, not v4l2?

vlc -v --reset-config --reset-plugins-cache -l first gave me an unresolved symbol. That was because my system had wxGTK 2.5.2 installed. Updating to 2.6 first gave me no progress - instead of the unresolved symbol I now got a different failure. Compiling wxGTK 2.6 again, this time after ./configure ...