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I'm trying to download this stream:
[url=rtsp://mp4streams.omroep.nl/ceres/vpro/rest/2009/VPRO_1135198/bb.20091018.mov]rtsp://mp4streams.omroep.nl/ceres/vpro/rest/2009/VPRO_1135198/bb.20091018.mov[/url]

But the .mov file I'm getting is pretty messed up: the movie is jumping (as if I'm rapidly feeding forward & backward), disturbed image, sound is chunky. I can see flashes or short parts of the correct content, but it's totally unwatchable. As if I'm streaming at a way too low bitrate or something.

Here's what I do:
- Open Network Stream (Ctrl+N)
- Copy/paste the rtsp link above
- Click the small dropdown menu (next to Play) and choose Stream (Alt+S)
- (source is already specified, click Next
- File, Add, and then I fill in C:\test.mov or something
- Optionally, I disable the 'Activate transcoding' option (it doesn't seem to make a difference for this problem), when enabled I leave it at the default profile, Video H.264 + AAC
- Next, and Stream

It now starts streaming, the .mov file is growing. But when done, the resulting file shows the problems described above.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Oh, btw - I'm talking about the Windows version here (VLC 1.0.3) but in case this is a general problem, perhaps it applies on other platforms as well?

Don't download and transcode at the same time. So download with demuxdump first and after that transcode if you must.
http://wiki.videolan.org/Demuxdump

I don't know if I fully understand, but when I try this from the command line: VLC starts playing the stream, and doesn't seem to create "test.mov" or download anything.
I've also tested with an explicit path, like :demuxdump-file=C:\Temp\test.mov but that didn't make any difference.

By the way, is this different from the procedure I described above, with disabling the 'Activate transcoding' checkbox?

Thanks!

Via GUI you can do the same, if you check Dump raw input, but it seems it doesn't work either. I have to investigate this.

I have exactly the same problem! I didn't try to save the stream, just play it.

The original address is http://hstreaming.zdf.de/zdf/veryhigh/0 ... on_hsh.mov, and it links to
rtsp://ondemand.quicktime.zdf.newmedia.nacamar.net/zdf/data/quicktime/zdf/09/06/090623_armageddon_hsh_h.mp4

It seams that VLC tries to play the file too fast and skips frames. The longer it plays, the worse it gets. I hope someone can help.

For downloading the issue seems to be
trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2808
that.

Playback seems to have different issues

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main warning: audio drift is too big (167109), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (145776), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (124443), dropping buffer
main warning: buffer is 103110 late, triggering upsampling
main warning: audio drift is too big (177459), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (156126), dropping buffer
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