[streaming] Saving Video file with VLC

[Colin Law]

On 9 March 2011 06:32, Ankit Kapoor <ankit.11nov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> I am not running it from the command line. I am running the actual VLC
> player GUI.
>
> Below are the steps which I am running:
>
> 1) Launch VLC Player
> 2) Media -> Open Network Stream
> 3) Enter the URL which you want to stream
> 4) From the Tab which is showing play , select Stream option , it will open
> another GUI
> 5) Click Next
> 6) Select display Locally option if you want to display the file locally and
> unselect Activate transcoding
> 8) Add the destination where you want to store the file
> 9) In the profile options under Video/Audio Codec tab select Keep original
> Video/Audio track
> 10) Click Next and then click Stream to start streaming
>
> Will running it from the command line make any difference.

If nothing else it will make it easier to replicate the problem, and
easier to see whether there is something misconfigured.  Also the
diagnostics displayed in the terminal may give a clue to the problem.

Colin