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I've got a couple of live IP streams I want to transcode to H264/AAC for multicast on our local LAN. I've got it running fine on a Mac, but when I try to do the same on Windows the H264 encode always fails.

Here is the Mac command line:
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/vlc http://msvictor3.msfc.nasa.gov/STREAMING/SDP/test2.sdp --sout='#transcode{acodec=mp4a,ab=128,vcodec=h264,vb=2048}:rtp{dst=233.3.3.14,sdp=file:///Volumes/MacHD-Q32i-MSC/Users/wallsbk/desktop/IndependanceH264.sdp,sap,name="Independance",description="ISS Downlink, Independance channel",url=http://desktoptv.msfc.nasa.gov,ttl=255}' --ttl=255 --sap-interval=15 --loop

Here is the Windows version:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" http://msvictor3.msfc.nasa.gov/STREAMING/SDP/test1.sdp --sout='#transcode{acodec=mp4a,ab=128,vcodec=h264,vb=2048}:rtp{dst=233.3.3.13,sap,name="Freedom",description="ISS Downlink, Freedom channel",url=http://desktoptv.msfc.nasa.gov,ttl=255}' --ttl=255 --sap-interval=15 --loop

Any ideas? The Messages seems to complain about a missing mux command.

Can Windows create a local SDP file? Would the format be sdp=file://C:/myfolder/FreedomH264.sdp?

x264 encoding is broken on Windows. So you can't use x264 under Windows.

Actually, you should put a mux option (ts in your case) along with dst option. You should also specify audio-port and video-port.