[ale] ffmpeg. ffserver and Debian Testing - Help

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

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.

-Brian