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UPDATE:
adding '--dummy-quiet' to command line parameters solved my issue

I met a problem that could be somehow related to this: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC>vlc Z:\Riese.avi -I dummy --sout=#transcode{vcode c=h264,vb=500,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=32,channels=2,samplerate=44100,audio-sync}: standard{mux=ts,dst=-} > output.ts This line is opening a new shell window with all ...

actually my command line is something like $ vlc -I dummy "filename" --sout='#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{vbv-maxrate=400,vbv-bufsize=400,qcompatetol=0, bitrate=400},vb=400,acodec=mp4a,ab=32,scale=1,channels=2,deinterlace,audio-sync}:std{mux=ts,dst=-}' vlc://quit I haven't tried `cat` ...

sorry to bring up such an old topic.
Is there any way, on the other side, to read from a file as if it was a live content, in order to force the output to 1x?