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I am running VLC as a Windows service, streaming a public webcam from rtsp port 554 to the Internet on port 8888. So the following 1-line batch file is running with Administrator privileges:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -R rtsp://IPetc --intf dummy --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mjpg,vb=2500,scale=1.0,fps=1,acodec=none}:standard{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=hexetc},mux=mpjpeg,dst=:8888"

(IPetc and hexetc represent censoring on my part for the purposes of this post.)

I would like to collect log data, for example which IP addresses connect to my service. After reading this thread, I added -vv and -logfile= to my command line, which now reads

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -R rtsp://IPetc -vv --logfile="C:\Webcam\vlc-log.txt" --intf dummy --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mjpg,vb=2500,scale=1.0,fps=1,acodec=none}:standard{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=hexetc},mux=mpjpeg,dst=:8888"

But no log file is being created. What am I missing? Is there some restriction on log files when VLC runs as a service?

Thanks for any help!

--extraintf logger?

--extraintf logger?

That didn't work. I also found this thread https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=88914 and added various combinations of but I still have no log file, either in the directory I specified in "--logfile=" or in the VLC program directory.

Run this from MSys or WSL terminals?

Run this from MSys or WSL terminals?

I don't know what either of those are. The command is in a .BAT file. I am running it from a service using NSSM (https://nssm.cc/) or from a Windows 10 command prompt (with "Run as Administrator"). In both cases I get no log file.

I don't know then, sorry.