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vlc package

vlc fails to capture video and audio simultaneously

Bug #689122 reported by Andreas Gölzer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
VLC media player
Fix Released
Undecided
Rémi Denis-Courmont
VLC media player 2.0.2
vlc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: vlc

Trying to capture video from a webcam, I found that

vlc alsa://

will play sound, and

vlc v4l2://

will play video. Getting both together however does not seem to work. Various tutorials suggest

vlc v4l2:// --input-slave alsa://

however, that gives only video. Similarly,

vlc alsa:// --input-slave v4l2://

only plays audio. Specifying the alsa device, alsa://hw:0,0 does not change the behavior, neither does recording to disk instead of immediately playing.

Googling led me to a forum post, http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=62027 describing the same problem, however, the oss fallback is oblolete with maverick, if I'm not mistaken.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: vlc 1.1.4-1ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 12 02:09:07 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928.3)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/quantal/vlc
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Andreas Gölzer (k-2005) wrote :
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Andreas Gölzer (k-2005) wrote :

This seems to be a weird problem with pulseaudio.

Using alsa://pulse or using padsp for oss emulation solves it. Once I get the time difference between video and audio worked out, I'll update the wiki,

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam

Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Theatre-X (theatrex) wrote :

I experience this problem mostly when watching DVDs.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

Fixed upstream: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git;a=commit;h=90efd88489b1a7773133c89d89ee379d62d98ae9

Changed in vlc:
milestone: none → 2.0.2
tags: added: patch-accepted-upstream
Changed in vlc:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: Unknown → New
assignee: nobody → Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)
status: New → Fix Released
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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

NOTE: Capturing from alsa://pulse will probably NEVER be fixed. Please use the native PulseAudio input for capture. Use ALSA only for direct hardware access.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 2.0.2-1

---------------
vlc (2.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Edward Wang ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #679625, #664279, LP: #689122, #936488,
    #942126, #971106, #972615, #973051, #987231, #995003, #998538).
    - Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow. Thanks to Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
  * Add the crystalhd plugin to the vlc distribution.
  * libcaca_plugin.so now depends on X11 in this release, so it must
    be installed under vlc (versus vlc-nox).

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * Urgency set to medium because a security issue is fixed in this release

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Add new plugins to vlc-nox:
    - crystalhd (Linux amd64 and i386 only)
    - directfb
    - fbosd (Linux only)
    - omxil (Linux only)
  * Add build dependencies for new plugins.
  * Add new symbols to libvlccore5.
  * Switch to debhelper 8.

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:39:41 +0200

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

ben oui (sunchine-212002)
visibility: public → private
Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)
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