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Hi all.

i have sucessfully made VLC work with RTSP when streaming a video file. I am using -I http to simplify things a bit while setting it up.

i have been reading and searching quite a lot on the forums and the videolan documentation - but i'm still a bit confused.

how do i use RTSP to stream from a dshow device?

i tried setting up the VOD by using the following input:
when i try opening the stream on the client i get:
Unable to open 'rtsp://192.168.1.3/test'

any help would be very much appreciated.

thanks a lot guys

Could you paste the VLM command batch you're using ? (or just the contents of http://localhost:8080/vlm_export.html once you've configured everything)

Wow quick response.

Wow quick response.

Hehe you were lucky i guess :p

Should be this instead: I'm not sure if the quotes are needed on the vdev line. Btw, you seem to be using way too many options here ... you could remove those for which you use the default values.

ahhh okay. i tried removing all the default values now, but i still get the same result...

u have any hint on how i make the vlm_export look like u said it was suppose to?

Thanks for your response dionoea.

i tried sending the vlm commands using the "other" section in the http interface. - The vlm_export now looks like u said it should

but sadly it still won't work...

I thought that it could have been my TV card that was causing the trouble - so i bought a new one
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500

however this didn't resolve the issue either - I can stream files but still not dshow.

if anyone has a working setup of vod streaming with dshow i would very much like an example on how u made it work

once again thanks a lot for your help people!

oh maybe this could help:
does this mean that I can't use that tv card for streaming?:

dshow error: can't use device: "Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture", unsupported device type

Did you try without the quotes arround the device's name ? (or like quote arround the full option=value thing ?)

just tried removing the quotes - Same result as before...

btw. VLC can open the same caputure card with dshow when i'm using the gui's "open capture card"

do you think it could be the device name that are causing the trouble?

The quotes definitively seem to be the issue:
dshow debug: found device: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
dshow debug: found device: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
dshow error: can't use device: "Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture", unsupported device type

the third line shouldn't have quotes. Did you try "dshow-vdev=blabla bla" (quotes arrount the full thing) ? (Please paste debug if it doesn't work)

heey - I did what u said about putting quotoes around the whole option value thing... now it actually found the video device!

u are da man bro!
now i'm not sure what is wrong - apparently something with the audio

u seem to have fixed my first error bro! thanks a lot!

now there's a second one lol

here's the VLM i use: if i use the same transcoding option as the one i used for the avi file i successfully streamed i get:
u got any idea of what i'm doing wrong now? lol

thanks again bro

hmmm okay, could it be that the encoder thinks that i'm trying to encode a 25000 fps stream?

the property window of the tv card pops up and tells me it's running 25.000 fps - i can't change it.

could that be the problem? or am i looking the wrong place?

i found out that if i added fps=25 to the transcode part everything worked!

thanks a lot for your help!

You're welcome (sorry for not answering earlier)

No need to be sorry bro - u are da man

I am a newbie, but shouldn't this solution be put into the wiki?