How to simple start/stop saving/recording a SDP stream?

[luk4]

Hello!
Thank You for a such a great product! I would like to ask how to stop saving/recording a sdp stream. I have read that You can push/release button record, but how it can be done from command line? I have to do such a logic in our application, but it is difficult. I can not find any example in available c# wrappers for vlc.

The second question is: is it better to convert/save or record? I have recorded file from h264 stream and it can be opened only in vlc media player.

The third question is what muxer is better for h264 stream?

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vlc -vvv http://server.example.org/stream.sdp --sout file/muxer:stream.xyz muxer is one of the formats supported by VLC's stream output, i.e. : ps for MPEG2-PS format, ts for MPEG2-PS format.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

1) The record button cannot be triggered from the CLI.
2) Whatever works for you.
3) It depends on your use cases.

[luk4]

Ok, but according to the documentation You can trigger a command line to start recording yes? So is there a command to stop recording?
Also if there is an option to start converting/saving a file is there a command to stop saving a file from stream?

regards!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You have a command line to stream, not to record.

[luk4]

You have a command line to stream, not to record.

Ok, I see its something like this:

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sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=none}:file{dst="+DestFileName+"}

But there is no information how to stop such a streaming into file and now I'm trying to figure out how to proper close such a file hm.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

There is no command line to stop an existing instance. You have to use job control provided by the shell / operating system.

[luk4]

There is no command line to stop an existing instance. You have to use job control provided by the shell / operating system.

I am just stopping playing and it works. Could You tell me what is the difference between those commands?

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sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,scale=1,deinterlace,acodec=none}:file{dst="+DestFileName+"}"

vs

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sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,scale=1,deinterlace,acodec=none}:std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst="+DestFileName+"}"

?