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Since noone responded before I figured out a simple method, I thought I'd share the simple method with others that might be looking into this. If you use the telnet interface/VLM (documented in the streaming how), and then use something like the below for the script things work pretty well. I just n...

I'd like to use VLC to record security camera output (24 hours a day 7 days a week). But have files saved every N number of minutes. Ideally, I'd love to set a timer, have the file name be something like "file%02d.mpg" with VLC replacing the c-string with an incrementing value.... Thoughts...