VLC crashing when saving file...
Posted: 15 Dec 2004 19:11
I'm running VLC 0.8.1 on WinXP SP2, and am having problems saving a stream to a file.
I connect to the stream all right, and VLC displays it while it's (hopefully) preparing to write the whole thing to disk once it's done. It will play stutteringly for about 30 seconds, and then the image will freeze and audio disappear. The timecounter, however, continues to tick away, so I figure it's so busy compressing and encoding and whatnot that it can't find the time to continue playing the stream. Fair enough.
However, when the timecounter reaches the end, and VLC is supposed to write the file to disk, Windows decides that "VLC has performed an illegal operation and must be closed". Nevermind the fact that VLC is chugging happily along, I can still open (local) video files and watch them.
The file output by VLC as a result of the intended download/transcode/save to file, however, is either 0 bytes or something other rediculously low number (like 400 bytes).
I've tried several different audio codecs and video codecs, different containers, I've even tried just dumping the raw stream, but nothing works!
What am I missing here?
I connect to the stream all right, and VLC displays it while it's (hopefully) preparing to write the whole thing to disk once it's done. It will play stutteringly for about 30 seconds, and then the image will freeze and audio disappear. The timecounter, however, continues to tick away, so I figure it's so busy compressing and encoding and whatnot that it can't find the time to continue playing the stream. Fair enough.
However, when the timecounter reaches the end, and VLC is supposed to write the file to disk, Windows decides that "VLC has performed an illegal operation and must be closed". Nevermind the fact that VLC is chugging happily along, I can still open (local) video files and watch them.
The file output by VLC as a result of the intended download/transcode/save to file, however, is either 0 bytes or something other rediculously low number (like 400 bytes).
I've tried several different audio codecs and video codecs, different containers, I've even tried just dumping the raw stream, but nothing works!
What am I missing here?