<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE > Save a stream with VLC </TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="VideoLAN HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE=" Receive and save a stream " HREF="receive.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE=" Receive a stream with VLC " HREF="x549.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE=" Receive a stream with a set-top-box " HREF="x613.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >VideoLAN HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x549.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 3. Receive and save a stream</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x613.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN585" ></A >3.2. Save a stream with VLC</H1 ><P > VLC can save the stream to the disk. In order to do this, use the Stream Output of VLC : you can do it via the graphical interface, or you can add to the command line the following argument :</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > <TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >--sout file/muxer:stream.xyz</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where :</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><EM >muxer</EM > is one of the formats supported by VLC's stream output, i.e. :</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><EM >avi</EM > for AVI format ,</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><EM >ogg</EM > for OGG format ,</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><EM >ps</EM > for MPEG2-PS format ,</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><EM >ts</EM > or <EM >ts_dvbpsi</EM > for MPEG2-PS format (the latter uses <EM >libdvbpsi</EM > for the task) .</P ></LI ></UL ></LI ><LI ><P > and <TT CLASS="filename" >stream.xyz</TT > is the name of the file you want to save the stream to, with the right extension .</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x549.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x613.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Receive a stream with VLC</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="receive.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Receive a stream with a set-top-box</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >