get vlc to log from command line

[tonj]

I'm running a centos 6 server with vlc-2.0.6-1.el6.x86_64 and I'm transcoding an rtsp stream with 'cvlc rtsp://blah-de'blah...'
The stream works but is dropping at random and I need to log what's happening with times and dates for when this occurrs but I don't know how to get clvc to log at the command line. I know about verbosity and saving the text generated in the console but this doesn't give me the dates and times the stream goes up and down. Is there a way to log this? I did a google search but couldn't find any command example for linux.