hello
I want to stream my web cam to http by VLC my command is:
but when I open

on my firefox nothing happen just a black screen and a play bar underneath of browser and nothing what is wrong?

hi,

Your command actually works for me so I would try to exclude browser/plugin/codec issues by trying to open the stream in, say, mplayer:

mplayer http://127.0.0.1:8082/stream.wmv

If that works, then you'd have to check your browser plugin (totem?) and codecs.

I came across this topic and thought I would try this. I also get a blank screen and trying your suggestion doesn't work either.
It gives the message "An error occured, stream contains no data."
Any ideas?
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Edit
tried launching mplayer from command line and got this output:

mplayer http://127.0.0.1:8082/stream.wmv
MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing http://127.0.0.1:8082/stream.wmv.
Resolving 127.0.0.1 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 127.0.0.1
Connecting to server 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: 8082...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://127.0.0.1:8082/stream.wmv
Resolving 127.0.0.1 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 127.0.0.1
Connecting to server 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: 8082...
nop_streaming_read error : Resource temporarily unavailable
Error while reading network stream.
Failed, exiting.
Resolving 127.0.0.1 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 127.0.0.1
Connecting to server 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: 8082...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) nop_streaming_read error : Resource temporarily unavailable
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)


Exiting... (End of file)

my problem solved and it was my linux box that does not recognize my webcam correctly

I still have the problem. My webcam is fully supported

Hey linuxonbute,

Two suggestions:
1) Try playing back your webcam stream from vlc directly. That is, run vlc -> open capture device -> play. Check the options after enabling 'Show more options' to see which device/parameters are used

2) Try streaming a video file instead of your webcam to see if there are network issues. To do so, replace the first two options to cvlc above by your filename (cvlc movie.avi --sout ....). Then try to open the stream from mplayer.

works fine
reports 'location not found'

That's rather odd. Can you please report both the vlc and mplayer command lines?

I cannot find the syntax for command line for mplayer
I ran it from the gui when I got the error.

vlc gui ran fine but don't know what the command line should be.
I tried vlc http://127.0.0.1:8082/stream.wmv
which reported as follows:

VLC media player 1.1.4 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x88ea914] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0xb6b640d4, 0xb6b64048)
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to srand(1329676677)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:26459): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setenv("_PX_CONFIG_ORDER", "", 1)
[0x8cf23a4] main access error: connection failed: Connection refused
[0x8cf23a4] access_http access error: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:8082
[0x8cf23a4] main access error: connection failed: Connection refused
[0x8cf23a4] access_mms access error: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:8082
[0x8a41b0c] main input error: open of `http://127.0.0.1:8082/stream.wmv' failed: (null)

and I got the same with sudo vlc-wrapper http://127.0.0.1:8082/stream.wmv