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Hi everybody,

i use VLC on Win7 and I would love to use the HTTP-Interface but I can't start it up. The Telnet doesn't work either. If I launch a console interface, it writes continously or (after i try to launch a telnet interface): since I have no idea what that could mean and I found nothing on google or in this forum, I would welcome any suggestions, what I can do about this. What exactly is a "polling error"? And which socket causes the problem? Maybe it does interfere with my Apache installation (although the service is deactivated).

Thanks for your help,
alphanoob

And which socket causes the problem? Maybe it does interfere with my Apache installation (although the service is deactivated).

You tried different port numbers for VLC?

'course i did.

For some reason the socket handle isn't valid. There was bug related to this on 0.9 nightlies but I assume you are using 1.0.3 where it shouldn't happen.

Hi,

thanks for that info. Maybe I'll do some research on that bug although I use 1.0.3. Maybe I should also try a downgrade to 0.8.

Thanks again,
alphanoob

Hello,
This is possible solution of network poll error.
#include <sys/poll.h>
int poll(struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout);
This function is very similar to select() in that they both watch sets of file descriptors for events, such as incoming data ready to recv(), socket ready to send() data to, out-of-band data ready to recv(), errors, etc.
The basic idea is that you pass an array of nfds struct pollfds in ufds, along with a timeout in milliseconds (1000 milliseconds in a second.) The timeout can be negative if you want to wait forever. If no event happen on any of the socket descriptors by the timeout, poll() will return.