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Does the Windows VLC support h264 transcoding ?

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:32
by timautin
Hi,
Well the title is quite explicit, I would like to know if VLC on Windows is able to transcode with h264 codec and ffmpeg encoder, or must I recompile VLCwith a h264-enabled ffmpeg ? If I use x264 encoder it does not work well at all, I only have one image after a long time.

At the moment, I'm running VLC 2.1.0 Rincewind, and when entering this command :

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vlc -I rc -vvv screen:// :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=ffmpeg}:display"
I get this message in the log :

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[0193dcbc] avcodec encoder error: cannot find encoder H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10 ) *** Your Libav/FFmpeg installation is crippled. *** *** Please check with your Libav/FFmpeg packager. *** *** This is NOT a VLC media player issue. *** [0193dcbc] main encoder error: La diffusion / le transcodage a échoué [0193dcbc] main encoder error: Il semble que votre installation de Libav/FFmpeg (libavcodec) ne comprenne pas l'encodeur suivant : « H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) ». Si vous ne savez pas comment corriger ceci, demandez du support à votre distribu tion.
I tried to install ffmpeg and add it to my path, it did not change anything.

(this post is linked to this one : https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=114504 , but I thought it would be better to create a new one for this specific problem)

Thanks !

Re: Does the Windows VLC support h264 transcoding ?

Posted: 21 Oct 2013 13:13
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
why do you force venc=ffmpeg?