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sure!, I just configured a vlc running in telnet mode. This means you can actually telnet to your host on the port you specified on the vlc start command and send control commands to the vlc. On the other hand you have expect, a scriptable telnet interface that allows you to telnet to a host, wait f...

Hi guys, I've set up a small surveilance recorder using vlm and vlc running in telnet mode so I can rotate the output files from a cron file using a expect script. I rotate the output stream files once a day, and start over every new week. It works great, but I just discovered that in case power fai...