play file while its written to disk

[guest (herrmannj)]

Hi,

small prob:

when i start to play an mpeg video while it is written to disk (source dvb) videolan always play only the part that was written to disk at the time of pressing play and then stops, even if the record is going on. ( tv app, i start recording from dvb source to disk and start play vlc with an time offset). clearly: the file grows so that vlc never can reach eof!

any idea ? (maybe turn off input buffer or so ? )

thanks
Joerg

[Sigmund]

which version/Os is this? I've seen and heard others see the very oposite behaviour.

[Guest]

Hello,
I am getting the opposite experience. When I try to play a mpeg2 file while it's written to my disk by my dvb card, vlc does not open the file.
Is there an option I have to turn on in order to watch files which are currently written to disk?

thx

[bobs not your uncle]

I have seen VLC exhibit both behaviours under OSX (10.3.7 Panther). I suspect that the undrlying video container type/ or hard drive/file fragmentation determines whether VLC can read files as they are saved to disk.
cheers jw[/quote]

[Guest]

I have seen VLC exhibit both behaviours under OSX (10.3.7 Panther). I suspect that the undrlying video container type/ or hard drive/file fragmentation determines whether VLC can read files as they are saved to disk.
cheers jw

[/quote]

No, because you CAN open them. For example, say i have a movie called myMovie.avi copying onto my desktop. If you open up the terminal and type...

cd Desktop
open -a vlc myMovie.avi

...then VLC will start playing the movie. So i don't know why it doesn't allow it to be started by double-clicking.