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I am recording two streams from one camera. I would like to know how to NOT create a recording for a stream that CANNOT be accessed. I've tried a try, catch (but an empty 0KB file is created, instead of an exception caught) and comparing properties of the two media players (which say the same thing ...

How do I make the playback quality of an Embedded Media Player as good as it is with the VLC player?? Also, how do I cut the latency/ lag? I feel like I've tried soo many settings and it still isn't good. There's probably stuff I don't need, but I didn't know what to include or exclude so I included...

I'm testing out recording to collect data on system performance. I only have one cohu camera to test with, so I 'made' 20 cameras with the same ip address. It's streaming in H.264, I'm using the ts mux so I can open the file as it's being written to, and saving the file in mp4 format. Every time I r...

Hmmm, still confusing :( I so don't get VLM stuff. Think I need a more bare bones explanation. Haha. If only you could youtube it or sumthin. Thx for the info, though. I dunno if this helps or anything, but I found this --sout-file-append command and other append commands in this doc. Dunno if that'...

What are the ways I would do the stop and start? What's the best way? I don't think I want to overwrite the file, so how would I just stop a file then start a new one (using the same stream as the input)? Is there some kind of roundabout way I can add and delete from a file? Maybe using: * --input-r...

Ooh, could you explain what you did to set this up? I don't get the 'rotate the output files from a cron file using an expect script', what's that mean? How'd you do that?

I'm streaming from a camera (rtsp://xxx) to a file (xx.mp4). I want the file to be a certain length (4 days or whatever). I want it to record forever, keeping the file the same length. So, delete from the beginning of the file and add to the end of the file (keeping it 4 days). How do I do that? Is ...

I am experimenting with streaming to a file and wanted to know where I could find documentation on the "options." The source is video from a camera (see mediaUrl below). I tried copying the output string from the VLC player and setting that to my options, but it didn't work (1st String [] ...

I'm streaming from an axis camera (rtsp://172.25.238.150) in h264 format, to a file (axis.mp4). The file get's started, but when I try to view it, the input is dropped. Is it possible to view an 'endless' file, that's constantly being written to? This is for traffic camera footage. The goal: video w...