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Hi,

I'm not sure if it should be posted here or "VLC stream-output (sout)" forum, but problem seems to be Linux-specific. I'm new to VideoLAN.

I have SUSE Linux 9.2 (all updates) and VLC 0.8.2, binaries from Packman (http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=377). As standalone player, it works very well, playing everything I tried, including WMV, ASF and DVD.

However, I have problem with streaming - there is no sound. I tried local (on a single machine) streaming from VLC server to client by UDP unicast. Video is more or less OK, but there is no sound I've read the FAQ nad killed artsd, but it didn't help. Starting server and client from different terminals, here is the output:

[Server]

$ vlc &
[1] 8185
VLC media player 0.8.2 Janus

(:8185): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkgc-x11.c: line 654
(gdk_gc_set_clip_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed

(:8185): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkdraw.c: line 412 (gdk_draw_rectangle):
assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
....
(:8185): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkgc-x11.c: line 654
(gdk_gc_set_clip_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed [00000262] main private error: cannot add this stream [00000273] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output


[Client]

$ vlc &
[1] 8192
VLC media player 0.8.2 Janus
[00000251] main interface error: option dvdnav-caching does not exist
[00000251] main interface error: option dvdnav-caching does not exist
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]warning: first frame is no keyframe
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:7/
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:8/
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:22/
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:24/
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:28/
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:2C/
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]J-type picture isnt supported
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:2C/
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]J-type picture isnt supported
[wmv2 @ 0x402f7208]I7:2B/

Does anyone have similar problem ? I didn't try another Linux distribution yet. Do I make some obvious mistake, or is it some configuration problem ? Before trying VLC, I installed xine and Mplayer (from packman) with all dependencies, they work well. What could be the reason ? I tried also on Windows XP (SP2) and it works corrrectly (also 0.8.2).

Thanks in advance for any help,

codecs, transcoding options ???

What are you streaming, how are you streaming it?
This debug output tells nothing, except that it wasn't able to add one of the tracks to the output stream. This usually happens if you have an audio type that cannot be caried in the streamformat you have selected. (MPEG-TS, PS, mov, mp4, asfh etc are stream formats).

My first attempt was WMV file. Almost all options were default ones.

Client: Open Network Stream, UDP/RTP, udp://@127.0.0.1, port 1234

Server: Wizard, Stream to network, Select a stream -> WMV file, UDP Unicast: 127.0.0.1, MPEG TS (the only option), TTL: 1

Then I tried ASF file - the same effect, video OK, no sound. However, when I tried AVI file (DivX), it was OK. - perfect video and sound.