How to Capture/Record/Save a TVUPlayer Video Stream Using VLC Media Player
2010-10-24 Initial Post
VLC Media Player 1.1.4
TVUPlayer 2.5.3
From the first link below, I found out how to capture/record/save a TVUPlayer video stream with VLC, but the problem was that I couldn't find any setting in the VLC GUI to change the destination file location. I looked at the VLC documentation in the second link and it had a command line parameter for changing that. Based on info from the two resources, here are my instructions in a nutshell:
- Watch the stream in TVUPLayer like you normally would.
- Open a command prompt and run the command below. You could also put the command into a batch file for future use. Change the saved file path, D:\Temp\VideoName.asf, for your specific setup.
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" http://127.0.0.1:8901 --sout="#duplicate{dst=
std{access=file,mux=asf,dst='D:\Temp\VideoName.asf'},dst=nodisplay}"
- VLC Media Player will open up with a blank window; just leave it alone and don't close it or click on anything other than minimizing the window.
- When you wish to stop recording, just close VLC Media Player. Open up your saved file from the saved location and view it.
It looks like if the stream gets disrupted for whatever reason, VLC will stop recording. I didn't get a chance to see what would happen once the stream starts up again.
The default VLC save location in Windows 7 is C:\Users\<user name>\Videos\.
January 22nd, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Excellent, exactly what I was looking for. I made some adjustments, if you are using Windows 7 64bit, the path for VLC is slightly different. I am also using C:\temp on my PC.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" http://127.0.0.1:8901 --sout="#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst='C:\Temp\VideoName.asf'},dst=nodisplay}"
January 22nd, 2012 at 11:30 AM
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