Crash resistent recording

[Idsa]

I'm recording video from LAN-camera using VLC. But I need to be sure my file will be readable even if computer or VLC is crashed. Is it possible? What muxer should I use? If it is not possible, is there any way to restore a file that was not correctly finished because of crash?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

MPEG-TS can do that, assuming your codecs are compatible with TS.

[Idsa]

When I record using TS muxer, the video length and fps are equal to zero. Inspite of this problem VLC plays such video. But I can't play it using libvlc: for example, PositionChanged event is not raised.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The TS file does not contain timing informations, but it will play fine in LibVLC.

As a French proverb says, you can't have the butter and the money for the butter.

[Idsa]

No timing... But can't we compute the length?