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Hi! I am using VLC to receive HLS video. I noticed that VLC is changing the source port for every request sent to the server. Which means re-establishing TCP connnection every time. Is there a way I can make the source port persistent for the entire streaming? Ideally - from command line as I use CL...

I need to test HLS streams by immitating a real playback. However I don't need neither video nor audio actually be outputing as I do this in the cloud (AWS EC2). VLC seems offer such an option: vlc -I dummy --novideo --noaudio https://path/file.m3u8 However I can't see it downloads .ts files. Is the...