Vlc transcode to h264

[lockev3.0]

Hello, i've been nearly a week trying to transcode whatever (webcam or video file) to h264 and still stucked, do not know why...
My system is a debian testing with next features:

1 .- vlc (took from unstable)

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vlc -l | grep -i h264 VLC media player 1.0.4 Goldeneye packetizer_h264 Empaquetador de vídeo H.264 h264 Demuxor de vídeo H264

2.- 264 libs

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dpkg -l | grep 264 ii h264enc 9.1.1-0.0 ii libx264-79 1:0.svn20091125-0.1 x264 video coding library ii libx264-dev 1:0.svn20091125-0.1 development files for libx264 ii x264

3.- The sout i use to transcode to h264 is:

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--sout='#transcode{venc=h264{keyint=30},vb=800,scale=1,acodec=none}:rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,port=1666,mux=ts,sap,name="webcam-stream",sdp=file:///usr/local/movies/mycam.dsp}'

If I use mpeg4 (mp4v) it all goes fine, but whenever i use h264 or x264 vlc crashes saying "cannot open encoder ....."

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[0x17a4c28] main encoder error: no encoder module matched "h264" [0x16c8778] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot find video encoder (module:h264 fourcc: ) [0x16c8778] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot create video chain [0x16d7d98] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output (I420)

A bit desperate at eht moment.
Thanks in advance.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

As you can see, your VLC build has h264 packetization and depacketization, but no encoder (the VLC x264 plugin).

[lockev3.0]

I see just demux and packetizer h264 at GUI tools->plugins. So how can i add plugins to vlc ? is it building from sources actually the only way ?

My version is 1.0.4 taken from debian unstable.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

I guess your only option is recompilation. It's clear Debian won't include x264 for the foreseeable future.

[erotavlas_turbo]

Hi,

Have you solved the problem of h264 transcoding?

Thank

I have found the solution viewtopic.php?f=13&t=71221&p=236637#p236637

[lockev3.0]

Not yet, indeed, i am playing with alternative ffmpeg as this seems to work perfectly with h264.
I would like to use vlc as it is best flawlessly streamer I know but as long as i do not solve the h264 question I won't be able.
I tried compiling from latest and even nightly-builds repos but then I got lots of other errors and so i left awhile.

[erotavlas_turbo]

What version of linux are you using?
With Ubuntu you just type apt-get install vlc

vlc -l | grep h264

and

vcodec=h264 (h lowercase )

[lockev3.0]

Right. Indeed I started with 1.0.3, then moved to unstable repositories to get 1.0.4 and right now I am trying my last, building 1.0.5 from sources, which I expect works fine as configure went all right and compilation too. I'll tell u.