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I want to use VLC to capture stream from an ip camera and save it to file. The thing is I need to do it from an external application -the application should issue a command to start recording and then to stop it. I thought I could use VLC command line however once I start recording there is no way to end it via command line, I have to kill the process. Is there some solution how to record the stream and properly end recording?

Hi

You should consider using the rc interface.

-I rc --rc-host=localhost:<portnumberofyourchoice> --rc-quiet

Then you can send commands via a socket <portnumberofyourchoice> to the VLC session e.g.

stop
clear
quit

Michael

Or if you know the time limit, you can use