How to time shift a live stream?

[yalag]

I have access to a HTTP video stream that I watch using VLC. In VLC I simply choose open network stream and enter http://mydomain:myport and it plays the video just fine. However the video is in a different timezone than me and I wanted to shift it by 12 hours.

In other words, I need to "capture/record" the stream and cache it locally on my hard disk and then play it back live 12 hours later. I think this is typically what they call the "timeshift" feature in a PVR system, it's just that I need it for a online stream instead of TV.

I understand that given the HD quality this will take up a huge amount of disk space but that's fine. Can VLC do this? If not, is there any program out there that I can use in combination with VLC that can achieve this?

Thanks!!

[yalag]

Anyone have any ideas please?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC can do this, but VLC isn't good for that... Pausing a http stream in VLC will timeshift it, if the http server doesn't support pausing.

[yalag]

Do you know how long can I pause it for?

And what program is best for this?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You can timeshift for as long as your hard drive (or more precisely, your home partition) can store data. This obviously depends on the bitrate of the timeshifted stream.

[vel_tins]

Timeshift in VLC doesn`t work with http streams!
The streams stops after a few seconds
See here:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=81483&p=270594#p269671
But fortunately, Mplayer2 from http://www.mplayer2.org/ does it fine..