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ok, so Ive been using vlc for about 6 years now and Ive just never been able to use transcoding without it immediatly crashing.
I can stream a file over my network as long as I dont enable encoding.

Two specific scenarios:
1. I want to stream my desktop to my tv through my HTPC (which doesnt seem to work without transcoding)
2. I want to save my webcam input to a file "test.mp4" like in this tutorial but it crashes as soon as i press start: http://gofree.com/Tutorials/VLCVideoWebcam.php

Ive run through every tutorial I could find but still no dice.
What am I doing wrong?
I have no additional codecs installed on my system and Im using the default settings and formats.
Tried several computers over the years.

cmon, anyone?
should I post this in another section?

We will need your logs before we can do any troubleshooting at all... run VLC from command line with the -vvv option, or turn up the verbosity in tools->messages in the gui, then run your scenarios, and post the log output here so we can take a look..

Depending on what version of VLC you have, and what OS you have, many times the codecs may not be installed/working by default, which will limit your transcoding/streaming options.

It seems I have to save the log manually, but thats not possible after vlc crashes.
What do?

If you are on windows, you can do the following " c:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC>vlc -vvv --file-logging --logfile=C:\Users\username\Desktop\log.txt" Just navigate to your vlc directory in the command line, then enter a writeable path for your log file, and it will launch a vlc instance. Do whatever you do, and wait for it to crash, then post the log.

Logs:
http://pastebin.com/4MPzVvZH (Working, file stream over network, no transcoding)
http://pastebin.com/b50G89Fu (Crash, webcam save to file with transcoding)
http://pastebin.com/eYdwrypt (Crash, stream desktop over network with transcoding)

thx, deranjer

Okay, I just tried to replicate your issue (the webcam one) in 2.0.1 (latest version) and my vlc crashed as well... I know you have been trying this for years, but if you are using 2.0.1, could you try 2.0.0, and see if the issue occurs? VLC did not crash when I tried 2.0.0 (although there was some speed issues?) Anyway, 2.0.0 is available at http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 0.0/win32/

hmm...it sort of works. no crash put slow recording speed.
oddly when I play back the file VLC has a freeze frame, but it plays on other video players

transcoding desktop over network still crashes

Well I have no idea about the slow record, someone more experienced than me would have to take a look... as well, in 2.0.0 the transcoding and streaming mp4 works fine, no issues... I'm afraid that is all I can do for you...