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I am fairly new to using VLC via Command Prompt/Batch files and have been having a heck of a time with it. What I am trying to do is record a specific show for a set time. It runs for 5 hours and I want to record just that. The issues I have encountered include the same stream being duplicated 6 tim...

I seemed to have figured it out by playing around with all of the options. "--sout-keep" keeps the stream open and I guess somehow translates to recording the set amount of time 6 times over. Not sure if something else affects how many times but whether it was 15 seconds or 60, it would al...

So I am trying to record a stream for 5 hours but ran into an issue with it not stopping at the end. To do some testing I was messing around with the --run-time and --stop-time commands at 15 seconds but now its recording the stream 6 times over. One file with the same 15 second clip 6 times. This s...