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Hi,

I have been a happy user of 0.86 for many months and I 'upgraded' to 0.94.
I used to use Piger to start a recoring and this was the command line argument that I was using, (and of course it was working fine).
This used to work flawlessly in 0.86 but now it does not work anymore, the error I get is

Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.

I can I get the command line arguments to work again?

Thanks

F.

What OS ?

What OS ?

Well, it is WinXP but I wouldn't have thought it mattered.
Are command line arguments OS specific?

F.

mux=mpeg1 seems more than weird to me.

The transcode parameter is expanded to something wrong. Impossible to tell why because you did not include in your query.

The transcode parameter is expanded to something wrong. Impossible to tell why because you did not include in your query.

Sorry what do you mean by query?

I already included the command line arguments, What other information do you need?

F.

Sorry what do you mean by query?

There is no "#transcode{...}" section in your query (or commandline). Since you appear to have replaced it with "%vlc_transcode%".

Try this sout string, editing you #transcode{...} parameters accordingly (creating using the "Stream Output" section in VLC's Qt4 interface ): i.e. mux should be "mpeg" not "mpeg1" AFAIK.

Arite.

... Since you appear to have replaced it with "%vlc_transcode%".

Try this sout string, editing you #transcode{...} parameters accordingly (creating using the "Stream Output" section in VLC's Qt4 interface ):

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:sout=#transcode{vcodec="mp1v",vb="800",scale="1",acodec="mpga",ab="128",channels="2"}:std{access="file",mux="mpeg",dst="C:\test.mpg"}

i.e. mux should be "mpeg" not "mpeg1" AFAIK.

Arite.

Sorry, you are right, I did not quote the query properly.

This is what I was using: If I use that query I get the same error, "Streaming / Transcoding failed:VLC could not open the encoder."

Using the code you gave: Does not start recording at all and does not give any errors, (but it creates an empty file)

F.

Sounds like your distro has removed MPEG emcoding