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Hi!

I need to record short and suddenly occurring events with a webcam. Therefore i'm creating a application to do this. The problem i'm facing is that it takes a while for the webcam to load in VLC and therefore i miss to record the event.

Do you guys have any ideas how i can achieve this instant recording using vlc and vlcj?

/Jake

PS. first post =)

I'm still supprized how clickable recording is not available in vlc API. I mean there is recording and I got it to work but u have to start recording once you receive the stream. U can achieve that by adding an output line that inclues the file name and extention in your option string when you initialize vlc. Someone told me that he had to hack the api to have a clickable recording but I'm no hacker so I don't know how he did it ...... anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.

That is too bad. What other crossplatform solution than vlc can do this?

I would look into mplayer API which is capable of doing a lot of great stuff but I prefer VLC. u can start recording from the beginning and use a video editing app to delete unwanted scenes. VLC has been doing a lot of great stuff for me @ work

I've got this working with my own patched libvlc.

However I'm not sure that it's generally useful since you have no control over the encoding of the video, or the file name and so on. I'm also not sure whether it's a good 'fit' for the libvlc API.