[ale] ffmpeg. ffserver and Debian Testing - Help

[Jim Seymour]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:24 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:18 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am trying to stream video from a desktop running motion with a bt878
> > video card to a Debian Testing server that provides the feed to a web
> > page. I can pull the feed from the box running motion just fine with
> > curl or using ffmpeg. The failure is occurring on the Debian server in
> > the conversion process. None of the feeds it (seems to) provide are
> > usable. It is providing feeds for Real Player, Windows Media Player and
> > Flash player. All of them fail when accessed.
> > 
> > I need some ideas on troubleshooting the video feed to determine if it
> > is getting converted, from what format and to what format. That is if it
> > is not getting lost between point a and point b.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> Try opening the stream with mplayer -msglevel all=6  and seeing what it
> reports.
> 

Thanks Brian,

As soon as I can get the stream up for more than a few seconds again, I
will give that a try.

Jim