Stream record time limit

[ne014x]

I am new, but I have looked through and tried all the suggestions in the post I could find on this before posting it.

I am setting up a bat file that will run on start up to record a UDP stream but I only want to record 1 minute to 1 minute and 30 seconds of video. (this is for legal reasons at a television station)

The command line as I have it now w/o the time limit is:

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Start C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe udp://@:1254 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV1,vb=768,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="c:\legal_id.mpg"}}

I thought it was going to be as simple as adding the TTL (time to live but It didn't seem to work

Other things I have tried were different combination of

--stop-time="90" infront of ":stout" with "vnc:quit" at the end

[my guess is since on the stream the time always stays a 0:00 there is no time code for it to count off of?]

I also tried a bat file that went

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at 12:00:00 Start C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe udp://@:1254 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV1,vb=768,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="c:\legal_id.mpg"}} at 12:01:30 Start C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe vnc:quit

I am out of ideas here, at all times we run 4 vlcs getting streams from udp's 1254-57 (all of our digital ch's) so killing the process wasn't an option.

Any one think of anything else to try?

Many thanks!

--Scott--

[VLC_help]

If stop-time doesn't work, then you might want to use RC or telnet interface and script close command that it sends for VLC after 90 seconds.

[ne014x]

How could I do that Ive never done anything with VLC outside of a setting up bat file commmands

[VLC_help]

first you start VLC with telnet or RC interface (add -I telnet to command line)
and
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28777
should tell you more about telnet.

I am sorry if I make this sound like a trivial task

[ne014x]

Thats NP, thanks for the link I will check that out

[lefish]

I have looked up docs and found the solution:

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vlc.exe rtsp://192.168.10.133:554 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst=D:/record_vlc/r2.mpg}} --run-time 5 vlc://quit

Cheers

[ne014x]

I auctually get a command line error when i use that code

adding

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--run-time 5 vlc://quit

to the end?

[VLC_help]

It might only work with nightlies (I am not sure about this and too lazy to check ).
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

[ne014x]

Ive been trying to code it in telnet but Im so lost;

The stream is on 127.0.0.1:1254, I want to record for 90 seconds, I don't think I can do this in telnet since it is in the subnet right?

[VLC_help]

You use telnet to kill VLC, not to kill your stream source.