I agree. The vlc package provided is quite useless for me. I use vlc with the telnet interface with mvpmc to transcode divx on the fly to mpeg to stream to my Hauppage MediaMVP set-top box. I get a similar error.
[00000404] telnet interface: using the VLM interface plugin... [00000404] telnet interface: telnet interface started on interface 4212 [00000416] [Media: mvpmc] main access out: creating httpd [00000497] [Media: mvpmc] avcodec encoder error: cannot open encoder [00000409] [Media: mvpmc] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot find video encoder (module:ffmpeg fourcc:mp2v) *** glibc detected *** vlc: double free or corruption (out): 0x00007fd3c3ee7cb0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0x7fd3c3bf3938] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x7fd3c3bf5f86] /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be0e32] /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be0e7c] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f83f4c] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0(filter_chain_Delete+0x1f)[0x7fd3c3f845af] /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be3ef4] /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be4bf6] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f86014] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f27e2c] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f2fbc0] /usr/lib/vlc/demux/libavi_plugin.so[0x7fd3ba046bb8] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f347c1] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f37e51] /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f71116] /lib/libpthread.so.0[0x7fd3c39653ea] /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7fd3c3c60c6d] -- Cannot transcode to mp2v/mp4v https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304887 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
