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Hi everyone,

I would like to know if it is possible to open many streams (webcam streams actually) with only one instance of vlc, with only one command line.
Nothing is meant to be displayed, the streams have to be transcoded and saved into files.

We used to have VLM files but we're trying to get rid of them and just launch the streams in the command line.

Thank you

No. You need to VLM.

Isn't there a way then to use telnet commands in the command line, having VLM parameters in the command line ?

That would be something like this :

vlc -I telnet new Movie setup Movie input C:\Movie.wmv setup output #transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=500,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=32,channels=2}:standard{access=file,mux=ps,url=C:/Vid1.avi} control Movie play