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Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 13 Dec 2018 13:27

Hello everybody,

I would like to record 10 minutes of a Youtube Live Stream from the command line (and would like VLC to close after that). How can I do this with a single command ? I've Googled it but didn't anything that works.

Thanks in advance for your help ! :wink:

PS : FYI the livestream url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjcyBzzE7-A (it's 720p)

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 15 Dec 2018 10:07

Please help :(

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby Hitchhiker » 15 Dec 2018 16:22

I can tell you how to do it from the vlc UI, but not from the command line. Is there any particular reason you want to use the latter?

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 15 Dec 2018 17:25

It's to schedule automatic recordings with Task Scheduler (Windows 7).

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby unidan » 17 Dec 2018 18:50

I don't know if mp4 is the right mux for this but

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vlc -I dummy --run-time <number of seconds you want> --play-and-exit --sout="#std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=record.mp4}"
However, a stream might break at the middle (because of the way it sends the data) and VLC doesn't really support that ATM.

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 17 Dec 2018 22:01

Hello unidan, thanks for you help. Where do I put the youtube url in that command ?

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 24 Dec 2018 23:47

Someone please help :(

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby mederi » 25 Dec 2018 13:17

Search VLC stream-output (sout) forum https://forum.videolan.org/viewforum.php?f=4

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 25 Dec 2018 14:20

I'll post a topic there, thank you. Someone please delete this topic.

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Re: Record Youtube Live Stream from the command line

Postby mederi » 25 Dec 2018 17:09

Search!


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