Streaming woes

[doriansari]

Hi List. Apologies for a newbie post but I've been stuck for a while and don't know where to turn.

To stream from the windows 0.9.8a version of VLC my latest try is

C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC>vlc dshow:// :dshow-vdev="USB Video Device" --width=320 --height=240 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=200}:rtp{dst=10.4.4.112,port=4470,sdp=rtsp://10.4.4.67:8080/test.sdp}" --sout-ffmpeg-hurry-up --sout-ffmpeg-bframes=0 --sout-ffmpeg-keyint=15 --sout-ffmpeg-hq=simple

Everything works fine except the receiving machine the image is flashing, mosaic'ing, very blocky. The problem goes away when I set the bitrate to 800kbps (vb=800) but I can't do that because I'm streaming over-the-air to a mobile phone.

I have doubts that any of my --sout-ffmpeg-* commands are working because visually I don't see any effect.

Thanks in advance for your help.