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Jerry, I have run into the same problem. I can get vlc to record an mp3 stream for one hour by using /usr/bin/vlc --stop-time=3600 $INSTREAM ':sout=#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst="'$OUTFILE'"}}' vlc:quit but the corresponding command to record an asf stream /usr/bin/vlc --stop-...

I found that the following works after some time on google and playing around with the code: /usr/bin/vlc -I dummy --stop-time=3600 $INSTREAM ':sout=#transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=96,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst="'$OUTFILE'"}}' vlc:quit This quits nicely after being cal...

This pertains to Ubuntu 8.04 with a freshly updated installation of vlc. I have a cron job which starts recording a live stream at a specific time. Is anyone aware of a way to tell vlc from the command line to stop recording after a specific amount of time? For what it is worth, I use a second cron ...