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Hi,

I have compiled and installed VLC from source and Iam trying to run a video stream using:

vlc rtsp://192.168.12.100/SPIDERMAN_720_768_hint.mp4

But Iam only receiving audio and get the following error:

[00000485] fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid argument)
[00000485] fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid argument)

Any insight on what might be the cause of this error ?

Thank you for your time!

Are you sure you really want to use the framebuffer video output? (you don't have X?)

I dont know If I want to use framebuffer video, I didnt select it intentionally !! Iam a newbie ... what are you refering to by X ?
I did the same cmpilation and installation of VLC on another ubuntu machine but i didnt get any such errors ? Can you guide me what shall I look for ..
thanks!

Ok, looks like you don't want to use it. I suspect that your VLC preferences file is corrupted. You should try deleting your ~/.vlcrc folder and see if it fixes your issue. (What distro are you now using?)

Iam using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Ah, you compiled it yourself. I guess that you're missing a bunch of development headers for system libraries. You should check the output from VLC's configure to know what was disabled because of missing libraries (you can also compare vlc --list between the ubuntu version and yours to see what modules you're missing)

yea, that very well might be the case. Before make Iam configuring with :

./configure --enable-live555 --enable-faad --enable-debug --enable-realrtsp

during the make it gave me lot of errors for missing development files which i installed then. I guess there are some more left out

I uninstalled vlc and then compiled again and reinstalled and now I get :

[00000541] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)
[00000541] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)
[00000568] fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid argument)
[00000568] fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid argument)

no more audio ... and still no video !! I have checked and compared the vlc --list output for both ubuntu and my own installation and Iam not able to figure out whats causing these errors at run time !!
help !

a very nice observation

when i was uninstalling and recompiling and reinstalling VLC, i started watching videos on youtube for time pass ... and thats what was causing

[00000541] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)
[00000541] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)

after closing the youtube website, i get the audio only ... still stuck with the video problem ...

You're missing a bunch of libs (as I already told you). Read the output from your configure to find out what's missing. Jb had a blog entry about compiling VLC on ubuntu that might help you out. You can find it on http://planet.videolan.org .