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Which video output would be best with a marginal CPU? DirectX or OpenGL or Default?

I feel your pain. Setting VLC up to record is very confusing. You probably should start by ignoring codecs etal and just recording the show in the format it is transmitted. HDTV is transmitted as a mpeg2 transport stream, so just choose mux=ts if that's what you have. You will end up with a command ...

I'm unsure how to parse these commands. My present command is: vlc udp:@:5000 :access-filter=timeshift :udp-caching=300 --width 400 :vout-filter=deinterlace :deinterlace-mode=blend :sout=#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,url="G:\filename.ts"}} ++++++++++++++++++++ --start-time=<integer...

I have a batch file which starts VLC at a scheduled time and sout's a file.

I need a way to stop (and exit) VLC with another scheduled event. The closest I can find in the wiki is a command to play (a playlist) and exit.