Recording audio to a file from the cmd line in the backgroun

[dvogel]

I am using VLC to record audio from the microphone input to a Speex file. This works fine with this command line:

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"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" dshow:// :dshow-vdev="none" :dshow-adev="" :dshow-size="" :sout=#transcode{acodec=spx,ab=32,channels=1,samplerate=8000}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ogg,dst="C:\testrec.ogg"}}

I need this to run completely in the background -- no windows, no stderr messages, no output at all. Using the dummy module still shows a cmd.exe window so that you can stop the recording. Is there any way to make VLC stop creating this cmd.exe window and stopping the recording through another means? I've tried vlc:quit on the cmd line of another instance of vlc.exe but that didn't work. If I could just be rid of the cmd.exe window, I could use the Windows taskkill command to kill VLC.

Obviously I'm running this on Windows, but if you know how to make this happen on other platforms, I can translate between them well enough.

[kmf31]

In Linux you simply add "-I dummy" to avoid the graphical interface, you add a redirection of the messages to files, i.e.:

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vlc -I dummy (blabla-your-options) 1>messages.txt 2>errors.txt &

and the "&" at the end to start vlc in the background such that the terminal is not blocked.

Afterwards you may savely close or terminate the xterm or console from which you started this command.

However, you will need to use the "kill" command to stop the vlc background job because there is no interface left for doing it. The only problem is that in Linux the dshow does not work.

I am not sure for the redirection and background in Windows. However, I believe if you install cygwin with a bash-shell you may do exactly as in Linux but in the windows environment.

[djhash]

Hey,

Run VLC. Then go to settings:->preferences-> advanced

Then click on the check box -> advanced options

Check the "Allow only one running instance".

Save and close.

Then in command line type "vlc.exe vlc:quit"

Just tried it on WinXP Pro, VLC 0.8.6c