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When used as a stream server, can VLC be used with a video capture card as the input and stream the output as a jpeg feed. The output would need to appear to other applications as an ip web cam. If so, what would the commandline script look like.

Thanks for any info.

Not sure what you're trying to do, but I guess you may get what you need by specifying "screen:" as a source for input.

I am trying to stream video from a Pinnacle video capture card on Windows XP using the following command line:

# VLC media player VLM command batch
# http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
dshow:// :dshow-vdev="Pinnacle DV/AV Capture" :dshow-adev="" :dshow-size="640X480" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV1,vb=1024,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=192.168.1.2:8080}} :sout-all

VLC looks like it is streaming as VLC Media Player shows an increasing time in the status bar at the bottom, but no local dispay shows and I cannot connect to 192.168.1.2:8080 with Windows Media Player nor another instance of VLC Media Player.

I can stream video from the card using Windows Media Encoder 9, so I am sure the video capture card is working ok.

I guess a good start would be simply to view the video capture card's output locally in the VLC media player. I have tried numerous variations of settings and read quite a few posts regarding setup of VLC as a server, but just can't seem to get VLC set correctly to stream.

You have to get local playback working before you can stream anything. As you do not see the local output it seems that your dshow input is configured incorrectly.