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I have been using the command line options dummy --dummy-quiet to run vlc without a window. The problem is, because it has no window it cannot receive a windows close message. So I am forced to kill the process. And the problem with killing the process is that vlc writes the meta data about the vide...

The other thing is transcoding greatly lowers the video quality.

Did you try to set the size directly in the transcode options? I've used transcode now as follows: H:\>vlc.exe rtsp://192.168.20.102:554/ch0_unicast_firststream --aspect-ratio=1.333 --sout="#transcode{vcodec=mp4v, width=320, height=240}:duplicate{dst=display, dst={std{access=file, mux=avi, dst...

I haven't tried that but I don't want to transcode anyway. Am I right in thinking the display aspect ratio int he meta data is simply a description of the aspect ratio that the viewer should attempt to view the video in? By that I mean there is no change to make to the video data if the display aspe...

I am streaming an XviD MPEG4 variant rtsp stream to disk. The resulting file shows a display aspect ratio of 1.11111 (10:9) in the metadata when viewed with MediaInfo. The command line docs suggest you can set the aspect ratio by an option but I'm having no joy with it: vlc.exe rtsp://192.168.20.102...