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I thought I would post again just to update the forum on the solution I came up with for this problem, with the help I got here, lots of reference to the Wiki, and trial and error. I ultimately managed to schedule a daily frame grab from the http stream using VLC, dos, and Windows Scheduled Tasks. F...

Hi All -- I am having problems capturing a few seconds of an HTTP-streamed mjpg on a regular schedule, and appending it to a locally-saved file. The stream is coming from a static webcam with no audio. I'd like to set up something that schedules a short daily capture, ultimately creating a time-laps...

Hi DJ -- I have just tried some variations of the code you suggested, still without success. If I take out the colon before sout then it behaves the same as the earlier code, opening a new window titled "Hardware YUV overlay DirectX" and showing my video stream for about 5 seconds, but eit...

I think I'm getting close and would be grateful if someone could help me get to the bottom of this. I now have the following command string opening my source stream for 5 seconds and closing it again: "c:\program files\videoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" vlc -I dummy http://xxx.xxx.xxx:8201/mjpg/video.m...

Strangely though, if I simply open the stream in VLC it does just fine (although sometimes with a bit of delay).

OK -- with that assistance I've managed to generate a log: http://users.eastlink.ca/~leahdave/vlc-log.txt.

Grateful for your observations.

Dave

Hi Antoine --

When I append "-vvv" and run the string the output appears in a new window, which closes immediately upon completing. I can see that it's generating more information but it does not seem to create a log file or remain on-screen for me to copy it.

Dave

Thanks for the quick reply Dionoea. I gave that a try but got an error within the dummy. It looks to be something like this: Fontconfig error: cannot load default config file [00000485] main subpicture error: blending J420 to J420 failed I'm not sure if it was the same error every time -- the prompt...

I'm looking for a way to schedule VLC MP to open a streaming mjpg from a http network address, take a snapshot, then close again at regular intervals. I don't want to record the stream, just grab a frame. By way of background, a friend has streaming mjpg video from his cottage overlooking a lake. I ...