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I am trying to use my web cam with VLC version 0.8.1 but I can't get it to work. I open the capture device under direct show and select my video device name from the drop down list and then press ok. The light on my webcam then comes on and it appears as though vlc is going the open the live feed fr...

Does anyone know how to split the output file while encoding a video stream? I want to encode a live signal to mpeg4 however I don't want just one output file. I would like to split it as it is being created into predifined increments. I would like these files to be rejoinable for play at a later ti...