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Stream out http with no transcode
Posted: 04 Mar 2008 18:03
by bobdole369
Hmmm, this used to work! In fact I was streaming http with no transcoding just last week.
Any ideas why I would now get "can't pre-fill buffer" ?
more details to come.
Re: Stream out http with no transcode
Posted: 04 Mar 2008 21:42
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
means VLC cannot get any data from the input.
Re: Stream out http with no transcode
Posted: 11 Mar 2008 17:56
by bobdole369
I think I've got it.
I am unable to stream directly out via http because the container formats don't match.
Last week I was streaming a DVD directly. Now I'm attempting to use a Pinnacle HDTV Pro stick's composite input. There is no MPEG encoder on this board so when I go and open a directshow device and set it up, I'm not able to stream. But if I used a DVD as the source, or the ATSC tuner via TSreader - it works OK
Why? - Its because both the DVD and the ATSC tuner are MPEG-TS streams, and the default container format for a no-transcode session is "MPEG-TS". Thus it works fine.
The Directshow device composite input is NOT an MPEG-TS. I did get quite acceptable results with transcoding via mp4v and mpga - at about 4096 kbits rate.
Re: Stream out http with no transcode
Posted: 20 Mar 2008 04:04
by lepooner38
If you get it to work, please post your command line.
Thanks........