Luckily we have VLC, a player with which we will be able to add a playlist and allow it to continue running without leaving the YouTube URL open. This allows you to simply minimize VLC and access the selected playlist with one click. Go to your Applications folder and right-click on the VLC app. Select “Show Package Contents”. Once inside Package Contents, locate and open the “MacOS” folder. Locate and open the “share” folder, locate and open the “lua” folder. Locate and open the “extensions” and copy your “timeext.lua” to it. May 19, 2020  In this tutorial, we are going to use a VLC extension known as Time v3.2 for VLC Version 3.0 or Time V2.1 for VLC up to Version 2.28. The extension was created by MEDERI. Time V3.2 or Time V2.1 is a VLC extension that displays running time on the screen in.

Click here to return to the 'Record any video stream to disk using VLC' hint

you're right,of course! But it's a great piece of code, anyway!

This works great, but every time I try to record a stream it hangs after 2 minutes and then just stops.

This night (EU time) i recorded a 22 minutes stream from the French channel France 2 (www.france2.fr). The file is about 30 Mb big. No probs so far.

Regarding the Mac/PC problem i related in my post, can anyone reproduce it and may be give me a hint on how to solve it? I suspect some codec problem here.
I really need to play my .wmv streams in my PC as it's a laptop and i'd like to use these videos at work (french culture teaching)
Any hint welcome.

Your hint claims that VLC can capture Real streams. I've been trying to capture the following stream:
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/cult/doctorwho/realtime/broad1one/wrapper.smi
which came from the website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/webcasts/realtime/1/realmedia/broadone.ram
and VLC won't let me. I then doubled checked VLC's site and they claim to not support Real Media.
So have you captured a Real stream? If so, how?

Hi, I'm not the original poster, but I thought I'd chime in with a few comments about playing RealMedia files. I should add that I'm about to give the worst kind of advice -- the kind that involves passing along info that I've read about but never actually tried (yet).

• First off, looking through the docs of VLC 0.8.0, I don't see any indication that it is yet able to play RealVideo-encoded files (of course the videolan site states that the current documentation is out of date for the 0.8.0 release. However, I don't even find a reference to this capability in the CHANGES file included with VLC). I suspect VLC can't play RealVideo files for the usual reasons: The RealVideo codecs are proprietary and either legal and/or technical issues make reverse-engineering it difficult or impossible.
• If VLC does play certain *.rm files, might this possibly be due to the fact that the file being viewed is 1) not actually a RealMedia-encoded file, despite being named with an .rm extension? or 2) it contains data encoded with some other codec (i.e. not actually encoded with the RealVideo codecs)? In otherwords, is the RealMedia format also a 'container format' that can use other (non-Real) codecs, much the way Quicktime and .AVI does? If so, then perhaps the *.rm file in question is playable under VLC because it isn't actually using RealVideo-encoded data but something such as MPEG-1 video, that VLC knows how to decode. (I realize usually isn't the case)
• It happens that there is another app, MPlayer that will play RealVideo (v1/v2/v3/v4) files -- except that you have to borrow the decoder component from the actual RealOne Player app. See here for more info. NOTE: This is a similar techique to the hint posted by Durandal that allows Safari to play RealVideo streams.

  I don't know if MPlayer will allow transcoding to a different format the way VLC does. Logitech capture software for mac. Paf genealogy software for mac os.

Anyhow, I hope that these pointers at least give others a headstart in figuring things out. It would be great if there were an simple and solid method to transcode RealVideo files to something a bit more friendly. (I've seen such tools on the Windows-side but nothing under OSX as of yet) ..and I'm replying to my own comment. A correction:

The previously mentioned MPlayer app is a cmd-line utility. While this may be what some folks want, I imagine the rest will be interested in the GUI-based MPlayerOSX instead. You will still need to d/l and install the RealVideo codecs from the Real/Helix site separately. (Instructions are in the *.txt files that come with the MPlayerOSX app)

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..*sigh*. Hopefully in the future there will be a way for guests to edit their own posted comments. Either that or I really need stop and think before I post comments.

Anyhow, it turns out that there *is* a simple way to convert *.rm files to AVI-DIVX/MPEG/etc. that I had completely forgotten about: ffmpegX. While it's a nice GUI-based app, the installation is a bit involved since there are 4 files (including the Realvideo libs) that the user must d/l and install themselves, due to license issues.

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NOTE:There is an ongoing discussion as to whether or not the use of the Real/Helix libraries are allowed for transcoding purposes. Consult the Real's click-thru EULA prior to d/l-ing if this concerns you]

Thanks for the hint about MPlayer and rm-files. I did exactly what you suggested , only MPlayer doesn't play RealVideo streams - at least not with me.

Hi,
Using the same --sout syntax you can actually take an existing file (vs. a stream) and convert it to an .avi file. You can probably transcode/convert into other formats - the vlc doc supports this - but I haven't properly tried thus far.
The one I really want to try is taking a DVD and converting it into an .avi/divx/etc. - if you've tried this, please post your results.
P.S. be sure to let vlc finish it's work before trying to open the apparently finished new movie when converting - the file size is deceptive: vlc just claims that amount of space at the beginning of the conversion.

I tried using the /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC <URL> --sout <filename> and it didn't work. here's the exact command that I issued in Terminal /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC http://www.dagupan.com/radio/playfromdigitel.asp?vref=11072004-gmasfiles1.wmv --sout /Users/benedict/gma1.avi. I was testing on how to download the news from www.inq7.net.

Longbeard: you must not have read the post all the way through. You can't do this with a http link, you have to view the source code of the page in question and look for a mms link <mms://anything_ending_in.wmv>

Hi all,
I tried to record an RSTP live stream using the latest VLC I downloaded on 10 Mar. The errors I received were:
[00000001] main vlc error: option rt-offset does not exist
[00000001] main vlc error: option rt-offset does not exist
[00000222] main input error: no suitable access module for `rstp://avs2.senate.gov/banking'
[00000237] main input error: no suitable access module for `rstp://avs2.senate.gov/banking'
Any help would be helpful.
thanks,
Rob

Rob, you'd need to post the full URL . - we'd need to see the messages window for the errors/probs etc. - see also http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=49877#49877
and do a few searches in those forums - including on 'keynote'.
ATB,
Wayne T
obfuscatedAT0ptusnetD0Tc0m.au

I've done this about a million times with VLC 0.8.a and no prevail. I always get this:
2006-01-28 19:28:56.364 VLC[874] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1103 (0x44f), port = 0x5503, name = 'org.videolan.vlc.ServiceProvider'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2006-01-28 19:28:56.384 VLC[874] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (org.videolan.vlc.ServiceProvider)
[00000255] livedotcom demuxer error: describeURL failed (connect() failed: Connection refused)
[00000254] main input error: no suitable access module for `rtsp://www.sound-tv.net:554/channel/visual/wizard/01_s.mov'
[00000262] main input error: no suitable access module for `file/mov:movie.avi'
[00000249] main playlist: nothing to play
The file does exist because I've played it many times. I'm so lost.

I followed the instructions given by metiure a hundred times but all I get is this message:
main: no suitable access module for `rtsp://62.2.180.194:554/sfdrs/chak/2006/chak_02272006-450k.rm?'

Ditto: no luck here..try this prOn out:
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hello
somebody can help me i have this error message when i try to do what you have explain :-/
[00000390] access_mms access error: error while asking for file -1
[00000390] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server
[00000390] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2
[00000390] access_mms access error: error: HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
[00000390] access_mms access error: cannot start stream
[00000388] main input error: open of `mms://206.132.216.178/TV9/Drama/BANGRAK/BR176-240109.wmv?UID=' failed: could not create access

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I used these options to record an rtsp stream on windows using the 1.0.1 version and after about 3 minutes, closed vlc to check how it did. I was happy to see the video show up, but there was no audio. Do I need to use additional options to include audio?