[vlc] Re: vlc:quit resets the file to 0 bytes

[Christophe Mutricy]

On Mon, Apr 25, 05 at 18:02 +0600, ananth_g at sifycorp.com wrote:
> 
>  vlc -I dummy /tmp/Chinna_Mani.mp3 --sout"=#transcode{acodec=vorb,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ogg,url='/tmp/Chinna_Mani.ogg'}}"     vlc:quit 
> 
> the file
> size ( ogg file) gets reset to 0 bytes and the 
> contents gets erazed. is there way to prevent file
> reseting to 0 bytes and at the same time use
> vlc:quit for quiting from program?

With this syntax VLC try to transcode vlc:quit which is not a good idea(
that's fix in the development version, i believe).

You should use vlc file.mp3 :sout='#transcode{...}:std{}' vlc:quit

--options are global
:option are just for one file/playlist item

hth,

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Xtophe

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