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Thanks a bunch!

Hi there,

Is there a command line option to define a recording duration from an mp4 stream? Managing this with cron by terminating or killing vlc process does not help. Once vlc does not stop recording gracefully, mp4 file saved is not re-playable.

Regards.

OK, I think this is what the problem is with piping the output of an mp4a stream. Please correct me if I am wrong because obviously I am not as knowledgeable. If I save an mp4a stream as a file and then try to play/decode/stream everything works fine 8) . If I try to save it as a nameless pipe, it s...

That command line says play the http URL, then play the pipe... OK, I know I am probably sounding stupid to you with the lack of my knowledge in coding / command line, but would you please point me towards the right direction? I tried this too: cvlc http://xx.xx.xxx.x:8875 --sout '#duplicate{dst=st...

As any other software. But if I run this: cvlc http://xx.xx.xxx.xx:8795 - | another-command-here All it does is to play the stream but not pipe it to standard output as an object to the other command. I could not find any specific option in help, long-help and online documentation. I am probably mi...

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So far, using info from this thread, I've got it transcoding into MP3 128kHz 44.kHz mono....

Hi Osman,

May I ask what operating system and which version of vlc you are using?

Hi there,

Is there a way to pipe vlc output as an input to another software?

Thanks in advance for replies.

OK, after searching quite a bit, I figured that there have been other users with similar experience. There was also a bug report (#1630) about a similar issue, although not quite the same. That bug report was then closed with an update note of a newer version. Therefore, I tried the same command lin...

I am not an expert of vlc by any means, so please excuse my ignorance if my suggestion is not helpful or even accurate. I believe you should change your 'dst' parameter to the port number you would like to broadcast from, such as 8080 for example. You can also define here the IP of the computer to w...

Thanks Arite for your quick reply. It works, but with a strange twist. The stream is 22050 Hz instead of 44100, and probably because of that the playback is like listening to a 1/2 of normal playback rate, which sounds like slow motion. Now if you have a vlc client listening to this stream, you can ...

Hi there, What I aim to achieve is transcoding an aac stream to an mp3 one, preferably using a big enough cache to avoid problems. I will then play the mp3 stream on my receiver, which fails to play the aac stream. A command line solution is preferred to a description of how to do this by using the ...

This is to report that vlm causes vlc to crash when one attempts to broadcast a playlist file rather than a single mp3 file. Currently both m3u (simple and extended versions) and pls format playlists cause segmentation fault and crash vlc. I am more than happy to give further information if anybody ...

I figured what is wrong. VLM crashes or fails to broadcast when the input file is an m3u file. If you point to a single mp3 file it works just fine, and does exactly what I want it to do, i.e. simultaneous broadcast of two different streams (audible) from the same server but two different ports. Did...

You can't add two streams at the exact same URL for obvious reasons. Thanks for the reply. Questions: 1. Is same server different ports (e.g. 192.168.0.10:8080 and 192.168.0.10:8090) considered as same URL? 2. The error that I posted previously was obtained while I was trying to broadcast only one ...

hi this is a perfect job for VLM. Thanks for the excellent suggestion. I now have the following problem: I define and create the first stream on VLM, but when I start the broadcast, I encounter the following error messages: [00002923] [Media: Folk] main stream output error: stream chain failed for ...

Hi there, I posted this message previously to VLS/SAP forum mistakenly and I apologize for that. I am not sure whether this is possible or feasible but what I am trying to do is to create 2-3 audio lan broadcasts that can be listened to from a receiver as preset radio stations, using VLC. For this p...