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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!!

Anyone have any ideas please?

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.

Do you know how long can I pause it for?

And what program is best for this?

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.

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..