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I am trying to use VLS in combination with the MPEX card from BMK. I am using the drivers from bytesex.org with the patches for v4l applied. When I try to read from /dev/video1, I get a nice MPEG2 TS stream. However, when i try to use VLS to stream from /dev/video1 i get the following error:

[ERROR\kfir] Unable to start program video
[ERROR\kfir] Error: unable to start streaming of program video
Error: Unable to create thread
Error: Could not open file '': No such file or directory

I am using the vls.cfg file for the kfir card and the VLS version is 0.5.6.

Could anyone please help me with this? I have been trying for quite some time now without success.

Hi,

we are also trying to stream the output of the MPEX card from the mpeg-2 device /dev/video1. No way ...
Is there somebody out there who can give an advice ?
I have found the following in the CVS changelog:
2003-08-14 Thursday 19:20 adq
* This change moves the precaching from InitWork() to DoWork() in tsstreamer.
The caching can take a while to finish on certain sources and I don't think
it should force the rest of vls to wait for it.

Also, with the MPEX MPEG2 encoder card (spits out a TS stream): If it gets no
video signal, it outputs no TS packets until it gets one. This causes VLS to
hang when starting this input until a video feed is plugged in.

...

So there must be a way to get the MPEG from the MPEX !
What´s the commandline for it ?

Frank

Hi, actually I found what caused my problem. In videoinput.cpp, on line 181, "device" should be changed to "filename".