Can VLC stream video directly from camera??

[sitichul]

I can captured video from my camera. And then when i try to stream it over LAN i get error. I just want to ask. Do I can streaming directly from my camera over LAN network.
I used VLC-1.0.0-rc4.
I'm really need ur help and information about it. Thank you very much...

[just-do-it]

I did in 0.8.6 so I presume the answer is YES
Chris

[sitichul]

ok thank you for ur response. I can do it to with VLC 1.0.0-rc4 now. But it's just can stream about 3 minutes, and then my computer hang (cannot do anything). I use transcode H.264. Do you know why it can be happened? and then I can't stream it with transcoding using Dirac Codec, Does it not support Dirac? thank you

chul

[just-do-it]

vlc uses all its own codecs, WYSIWYG -
I used to use 0.8.6d; upgraded to 0.9.9 reacently but have not tried 1.0.0 rc4 but I guess, if it works at all any other limitations are probably due to the hardware. for seeing what is going on enable the logging.
In 0.9.9 you do this by vlc; tools; add interface; debug logging and you also can

vlc; tools; messages or media information which while away the hours!
I usualy used

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"C:\program files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe" dshow:// :dshow-vdev="Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture" :dshow-adev="SB Audigy Audio [E480]" :dshow-size="" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=250,width=100,height=250,fps=30,deinterlace,acodec=mp4a,ab=256,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=192.168.2.5:8085}}

and if you use something similar you could try altering the 'Video Bit Rate' (vb) the number of 'Frames per Second' (fps) and the size of your frame.
You will see mine is quite small - I had my video capture card, to which my camera was attached, in a 3GHz; 3GB RAM; single core; slowish PC running 'dose XP
happy watching
Chris