Problem with h264

[hossein]

Hi all,
I have a problem with all VLC 0.9.x versions player and activex and i'm wondered when i found myself lonely in this problem!
The problem is when i want to stream or convert any type of file to h264, VLC doesnt start to encode and i
recieve an error (actually a windows error):

VLC media player has encountered a problem and needs
to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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If you were in middle of something, the information you were working on
might be lost.

Please tell Microsoft about this problem.
We have created an error report that you can send to us. We will treat
this report as confidential and ananymous.

To see what data this error report conains, click here.

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AppName: vlc.exe AppVer: 0.9.4.0 ModName: libx264_plugin.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 000a0098
Reporting Details-------
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I couldnt undrestand what the problem is and tried to tet on another machine with another windows!
I repeated my test on 10 different computer and different windows(all xp sp2).
I thought it may be a VLC x264 codec new error and hoped to fix in next release but i never see any
similar error in forum!!

So, any idea?!
H K Jafari

[LaBay]

Hi,

I have the same problem with 0.9.x for WIN32
Advice: downgrade VLC to 0.8.6f

[hossein]

Hi,
There are many advantages and benefits to use vlc 0.9
specially in activex.
any othe idea?!
Is ther anybody who use last version for h264 encoding? (save to file or streaming?!!)

H K Jafari

[hossein]

Hi again,
Is it possible that no one use h264 encoding for stramming or converting via VLC 0.9.x ?!!!!!
Or may be they used that with no problem?!
Is it possible that this error happened just for me?! or it is a bug that nobody have not ever seen that?!
Let me know if anybody use h264 encoding in 0.9.x version or ask to test it and share the result.

Thanks a lot
H K Jafari

[sirwhizz]

I have the same problem. Your not alone. lol It is really aggravating. I guess the best bet is to use an older version for now. I really like 0.9 version, but I guess they are still working through the bugs. You wouldn't think they break something that worked before. But I had problems with the older version not decoding h264 if it was in HD. What I did is to have the both run, is I got VLC portable apps to run older version of VLC and let VLC 0.9 decode h264 for now. I wish the developers would read threw this and maybe have some suggestions. Or fix the bug.

[rwunsch]

Hey Guys,

I have the same problem:

AppName: vlc.exe AppVer: 0.9.4.0 ModName: libx264_plugin.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 000a0098

Really sad. I'd like to use the VLC player to stream to a Wowza media Server. And it constantly chrashes.
We should all get into the Linux world, i guess, things seem to be easier over there. But my whole company works on windows and we want to use this solution to make video broadcasts on our screens.
As far as i can see it the problem lies not within VLC itself, but within the H.264 library.
I hope we find an answer soon.

BTW, does anyone know how to compile newer versions of VLC on Windows?
I don't get it.

Cheers,
Rob

[rwunsch]

Hi All,

now I am using the new V0.9.6 for Windows.
I can capture my webcam, but when I try to stream it to my wowza server I get following error:

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Streaming / Transcoding failed: It seems your FFMPEG (libavcodec) installation lacks the following encoder: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10). If you don't know how to fix this, ask for support from your distribution. This is not an error inside VLC media player. Do not contact the VideoLAN project about this issue.

I am trying to stream the (very good - professional) "webcam" in high quality to a wowza Server using following command:

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vlc -vvv dshow:// :dshow-vdev="USB Video Device" :dshow-adev="USB Audio Device" --file-logging --logfile=c:/vlc.log --sout "#transcode{threads=4,vcodec=x264,vb=768,scale=1,fps=15,deinterlace,acodec=mp4a,ab=64,samplerate=44100,channels=1}:rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,port=10000,port-video=9996,port-audio=9998,name="TestStream",sdp=file://%WMSCONFIG_HOME%/content/vlc.sdp}"

Audio gets to the Wowza Server, Video does not.

The '.sdp' - File looks like that:

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v=0 o=- 14754809045604892672 14754809045604892672 IN IP4 sm-desk-rwu-1-1 s=TestStream i=N/A c=IN IP4 127.0.0.1 t=0 0 a=tool:vlc 0.9.6 a=recvonly a=type:broadcast a=charset:UTF-8 m=audio 9998 RTP/AVP 96 b=AS:64 b=RR:0 a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100 a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; profile-level-id=15; mode=AAC-hbr; config=0a08; SizeLength=13; IndexLength=3; IndexDeltaLength=3; Profile=1;

I tried to install ffshow, but this is obviously no solution as this just installs the decoder and not the ENCODER.
I downloaded the x264.exe from here: http://x264.nl/ .
And found that it is possible to create a libx264.dll out of it.
But this DLL is already with the VLC 0.9.6 ... so I am out of ideas...

Any comment is welcome!

Cheers!

[jibber.jabber]

Try switching the video codec to 'h264'
.. ,vcodec=h264, ..

[Gandolf]

I have the same problem with the libx264_plugin.dll message. This belongs to all versions and above since 0.9.2. Everytime you try to stream in h264 VLC dies directly. For now i'm using the old 0.8.6 version which works fine. Bad though you can't use all the new stuff in the new players.

[Gandolf]

Problem is still there in the new version 0.9.8a. I wonder why it never is fixed? It's been there since version 0.9.2.

[liorla1]

Hi,

I'm currently using vlc 0.9.7 and streaming h264 from rtsp server. VLC displays the file just fine (tho I can't seem to duplicate the stream to a mp4 file, I get only audio on the created file). But the mp4 h264/aac file displays fine.

FYI.