VLC on Centos WMV streaming

[stan9h1lo]

Can anyone help me to play MMS WMV stream using VLC

Totem works fine but I want VLC because of my application

I have tried varies things with codecs and ffmpeg but VLC will not play WMV

Thanks

[Rubberman]

I use VLC with WMV videos all the time. Do you mean streaming audio, or streaming video?

[stan9h1lo]

both (WMV or WMA!!) ...actually i'm transcoding...but it's a codec issue

did anyone manage to get VLC working with WMV ? any tips on ffmpeg / vlc on centos

On windows its working fine...obviuosly !! :P

[grishi_111]

i am used vlc without any problem.
vlc has codecs for almost every video format.
it should have worked for you.
if not refer to the Video Lan Client 's HowTo
VideoLAN HOWTO

[Rubberman]

If you are transcoding, then use ffmpeg, not VLC. Yes, it is supposed to be able to transcode, but I've never used it for that. On the other hand, ffmpeg will transcode just about any audio and/or video format to any other. I transcode WMV and WMA files with that all the time.

[stan9h1lo]

I am using VLC because I need to stream back via RTP

when running :

vlc -vvv 'mms://151.1.245.71/cblfilm-live' --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=2048,scale=1,acodec=mp3 ,ab=128,channels=2}:rtp{dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts, dst=172.16.10.254:5000}}'

I am getting:

[00000250] main input debug: `mms://151.1.245.71/cblfilm-live' successfully opened
[00000292] packetizer_copy packetizer debug: need dts > 0
[00000252] main stream output debug: adding a new input
[00000253] stream_out_transcode private debug: creating video transcoding from fcc=`WMV3' to fcc=`mp2v'
[00000293] main decoder debug: looking for decoder module: 18 candidates
[00000253] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot find decoder
[00000253] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot create video chain
[00000292] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output (WMV3)
[00000252] main stream output debug: adding a new input
[00000253] stream_out_transcode private debug: creating audio transcoding from fcc=`wma2' to fcc=`mp3 '
[00000307] main decoder debug: looking for decoder module: 18 candidates
[00000253] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot find decoder
[00000253] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot create audio chain
[00000266] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output (wma2)


from the debug you can see it cannot find the codec for WMV3 and WMA2