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Hi everyone,

I've got a problem with streaming video to my PVR. While streaming using the GUI works fine, I can't manage to get the same effect using command line options.
In the GUI I did:
Open File->Select the File and checked "Streaming"->Select "Stream", Type "UDP", Address "192.168.1.250", Port "1234", Multiplexing "MPEG TS" with the transcoding options video "mp2v" at 4096kb/s at scale 1, audio "mpga" at 128kb/s with 2 channels.

This works fine (at least for some video files, but that's another topic).

I tried to do the same via command line:

./VLC --sout='#duplicate{dst=display,dst="transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4096,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2}://
standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=192.168.1.250:1234}"}' -vvv /path/to/video

(everything on one line, with the '//' removed)

But that doesn't work: The pvr does not receive anything, and many log entries like
[00000405] access_output_udp generic warning: send error: Connection refused
appear.

I tried to direct a stream to my notebook, with "nc -l 1234" running, but even there the connection refused message appears. No firewalls are involved.

Used versions:
VLC: 0.9.8
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6

Any hints?
Thank you,
JustTryIt

have you tried to stream to localhost?

Hi j-b

have you tried to stream to localhost?

I just tried

/VLC --sout='#duplicate{dst=display,dst="transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4096,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2}://
standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=127.0.0.1:1234}"}' -vvv

and I got video and sound streamed to another VLC instance on the same host. I tried the same using another host (my laptop: ... url=192.168.1.10:1234 ...), and I got
[00000407] access_output_udp generic warning: send error: Connection refused
log entries.

Using the GUI wizard, i was able to stream to VLC on my laptop.

Thank you,
JustTryIt

To help you, we need messages, to completely understand what your problems is.
To fix this, please be sure before you start the playback to:

1. Open: Tools -> Messages.
2. Set Verbosity to 2
3. Start playback to reproduce your issue
4. Save text in a file or copy into clipboard
5. Then paste the full resulting log here between [​code]and[​/code] (or use Pastebin.com if it's too long)

Also don't forget to name your Operating System and provide the VLC media player version.

I thought there would merely be a syntactic or semantic error in my command, so i spared the complete output of VLC.

Here the not working command line variant: (I removed some httpd related messages, and merged multiple "Connection refused" messages because of the 60k char limit of this forum)
...

...

Here the variant using the GUI (again, httpd messages stripped)

The host OS is Mac OS X 10.5.6

Thank you,
JustTryIt