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Hello,

I'm trying to find out which combination of VLC settings gives me a working live stream from a camera.

I'm using VLC on MacOS X 10.6.8 for capturing from Firewire/IEEE1394. Then I'm trying to use the actual version of VLC to stream that via UDP to a server.

First problem: the only encoding which seems to be available is H.264. All other encodings offered give an error "avcodec error: cannot open encoder"

If I choose H.264, I can stream to the server. The server is an actual Debian stable with vlc-nox, which is 2.0.3-5. But this version cannot decode H.264.

I'm using the following vlm script:

new schlachthaus broadcast enabled
setup schlachthaus input "udp://@94.231.81.244:5003"
setup schlachthaus output #transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=256,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=32,channels=2}:std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=:5004}

trying to use mms:// to receive. The error is:

> [0x66f148] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot find video decoder
[0x66f148] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot create video chain
[0x671cf8] [Media: schlachthaus] main decoder error: cannot create packetizer output (WMV1)

What am I doing wrong? Which combination of settings could lead me to success?

Yours,
VB.

Please share all the logs...