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OK, I think I understand both of those statements, but I'm not sure either applies in my case. With respect to Statement One, I know that VLC *can* play the file while it's recording, and the file system *does* allow VLC to read the file while another process is writing to it. So that suggests State...

I record F1 from TV using Emby, and stream that to some friends via Discord, using VLC. If I start playing a transport stream (TS) that's still being recorded/written to by Emby, then VLC seems to use the length of the file when it's first opened, and never makes it any longer—even though I can see ...