transcode MJPEG to FLV?

[lamacq]

Hi everybody,

I've got a webcam that "streams" mjpeg over http, and I'd like to use VLC to transcode/stream this to FLV so I can embed the FLV on a web page. I am using VLC 0.9.8 (which I believe is the latest version) on Mac OS 10.5.6. I can open the mjpeg stream and watch it in VLC so I know that it is able to read the stream; the problem I have is in figuring out the right arguments to pass to VLC on the command line to get it to transcode to FLV.

In any case, here is the command line I used:

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./VLC --sout "#transcode{vcodec=FLV1,scale=1,vb=400}:standard{mux=ps,dst=,access=http}:sout-transcode-soverlay=0" http://mywebcam/mjpeg.cgi -vvv --color -I dummy

Where obviously "mywebcam" is the URL of my webcam, which works fine if I go to it directly in the VLC player. Anyway here is the error I get (amid a whole bunch of debug info):

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[00000710] main input error: open of `#transcode{vcodec=FLV1,scale=1,vb=400}:standard{mux=ps,dst=,access=http}:sout-transcode-soverlay=0' failed: could not create access: no suitable access module

What am I doing wrong? I also tried going through the wizard and there was no FLV option. Is the problem with the http part? ("access=http") What would I use instead to stream so that a flash player like the JW media player can play my mjpeg stream?

Thanks!!

Matthew