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Input type "v4l" invalid

Posted: 22 Aug 2004 17:07
by rajuptb
hi all,
i m running a lan of 50 computers and i am trying to stream video from my bttv card to widows mechines . i am using fedora core 2 (i think that this already has the bt878 driver included) . ican see the video using xawtv. but when iam starting the vls server using the commnad

vls -vv -f /usr/local/etc/videolan/vls/vls.cfg


i am geting the following error

2004-08-22 20:17:47 [ERROR/Vls] Input type "v4l" invalid


don't know what to do.. I tried to reinstall twice, but it's the same thing...

I'm starting to lose my nerves..

Please help me guys.

Thank you.

Regards,
Raju

Posted: 03 Sep 2004 22:41
by Guest
Are you sure you are using the SVN VLS version? The "v4l" feature is only available in this version.

Posted: 04 Sep 2004 06:45
by Guest
can u tell me where i can find the svn version ?

currently iam using the following
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 5.6.tar.gz