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trouble streaming webcam

Postby droidus » 16 Apr 2013 22:08

I am trying to stream my HP webcam on my Raspberry Pi. I select the capture device, but then it gives me an error, such as it is not able to open the MRL 'vl2:///dev/video0'. Check the log for details. It also says that the input can't be opened. I would like to be able to stream my HP webcam video, and provide a URL so other computers are able to access it as well.

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Re: trouble streaming webcam

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 16 Apr 2013 22:37

The logs probably indicate why VLC fails to open the camera.
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Re: trouble streaming webcam

Postby droidus » 17 Apr 2013 01:17

I've tried streaming, it does nothing. When I do play, it is frozen, with blocks and rectangles of an image, stuck there. I don't see anything in the messages window.

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Re: trouble streaming webcam

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Apr 2013 01:41

Put verbosity to 2.
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Re: trouble streaming webcam

Postby droidus » 17 Apr 2013 01:47

where do I change that, and what does that do?

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Re: trouble streaming webcam

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Apr 2013 01:51

Gives more message in message dialog
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Re: trouble streaming webcam

Postby droidus » 17 Apr 2013 02:22

It just says "MRL passed to the Sout: v4l2:///dev/video0"

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Re: trouble streaming webcam

Postby droidus » 17 Apr 2013 15:36

This was when I chose the stream option.


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