VLC Streaming/Downoading ?

[Mr_Mischif]

Can you program VLC to start d/l ing a stream @ a certain time, even if you're away? I'm gonna be @ school when the beta show goes on air, and I want to have it ready for me when I get home

[xxAtimiskxx]

Because i love the hak5 community heres a whle vide tutorial i made just tonight.

Heres the link and after its saved as an .asf you can always convert it to what ever.

and youll need a way to start vlc when they go live.

[hsncorrosion]

Not sure but you could always wait until its released on divx .avi

Prob. a day til release. or have someone else record it and re-stream it to you

[SomeoneE1se]

Not sure but you could always wait until its released on divx .avi

Prob. a day til release. or have someone else record it and re-stream it to you

My guess it will be out an hour or two after or on the 5th like all other eppys.

[xxAtimiskxx]

well watch the video i posted it teaches exactly how to do it

[oligarchy314]

It is very possible to have VLC download a stream while you're out. First you set up a batch file to start VLC and have it automatically open and start transcoding/streaming/dumping the stream you want to your hard drive. Next you set up an AT job to run the batch you just created file at the specified time. Finally you add a second AT job to kill the VLC process at a specified time.

batch file

start <path to vlc>vlc.exe -vvv <input stream> <transcoding options> <output file>

at command 1

at hh:mm /interactive [/next:?| /every:?] <path to batch file>batchfile.bat

at command 2

at hh:mm [/next:? | /every:?] taskkill /f /im vlc.exe

For more information about the AT command look here

http://ss64.com/nt/at.html

For more information about the TASKKILL command look here

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...l.mspx?mfr=true

For more information on VLC's command line options for use in streaming/transcoding look here.

http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Str...d_Line_Examples

I've been doing this for a late night radio show for years because staying up from midnight to 4am five nights a week is neither healthy nor feasible. For radio streams I would say you can safely transcode to whatever format you want, because real time audio compression won't max out the average pc. For video streams, in the interest of having a watchable result, I would only recommend dumping the stream to a file without transcoding. Even still, in order for that to work you need to match the output container specified to VLC to be the same as the format the stream is in or you end up with a file that you can't get to play back.