I find that way more “batch friendly”: # Download raw stream data from my HDD Is this an issue with my HDD recorder or a VLC limitation? I can’t tell for sure- by the way, if you have some more information about that, don’t hesitate to share that with me using the comment section at the bottom of this article!Īs an extra trick, since my HDD recorder uses HTTP as the transport layer, I find it most useful to use VLC to explore the HDD hierarchy, and then to use some command line tool to actually download and/or process the stream.

I must admit on my system, it works only for recorded videos, and not for live streams. Sometimes it is not obvious because that capability is rebranded as DLNA - but for our purpose, it mostly covers the same things. The reason I mention that is many consumer grade audio-video devices do now support UPnP. UPnP aims at making network devices plug’n’play in order to ease adoption by non-technical oriented users. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of protocols allowing connected devices to discover each other presence on the network. Using VLC to import videos from an UPnP deviceīefore talking about the UPnP support build into VLC, maybe it worth taking some time to explain in few words what is UPnP. In fact, for the desktop, VLC is much more than just a tool to play videos stored on your hard drive! So, stay with me for a tour of the lesser known features of that great software. There are MacOS and Windows versions too and even versions for your phone/pad/watch running iOS or Android. Do you know VLC, the ubiquitous media player, flagship of the VideoLAN project? VLC is a cross-platform tool and you can easily install VLC on Ubuntu or other Linux distributions.

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