[streaming] Saving Video file with VLC

[Colin Law]

On 9 March 2011 10:24, Ankit Kapoor <ankit.11nov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> Thanks for your quick response.
> Can you help me with the command for vlc for saving the streamed data as I
> have never used it.

You will need something like
cvlc -vv some_url "#std{access=file,mux=ts,dst=thefilenename.mp4}"

cvlc is the command line version of vlc, which should have been
installed with vlc.  If it is not then just use vlc instead.  -vv
tells it to show additional diagnostics which can be useful.  some_url
is your source url and thefilename.mp4 is the file to write to.  I
don't know exactly how to escape the filename if you need backslashes
(hopefully you are not on windows so that is not a problem) or spaces
in the filename.  To get it working just put a simple filename and it
should appear in the current directory.  I don't know whether mux=ts
is right for mp4, you might have to research that.

Colin

>
> Regards
> Ankit Kapoor
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
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