Bug#573306: --sout truncates upon reaching second file

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

 On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:31:01PM +0100, Christophe Mutricy wrote:
> Le Wed 10 Mar 10 ? 21:40 +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org a ?crit :
> > If one does
> > $ vlc --sout file/ogg:diangan.ogg http://61.31.193.11/news/tvbs/20100307/L/L20100307-09.wmv
> > what will happen is it will download many megabytes, and then truncate
> > all that hard work when the second item (in my case with a impossible
> > 10.x.x.x IP address) is encountered.
> > It turns out for such two part files with ref1 and ref2, one is better
> > off doing as in
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/wget-download-streaming-media-620376/
> 
> I am not sure i'm getting your point.
> 
> Are you doing: vlc url1 url2 --sout ... ?

No. I did what you see in the above $ command line.

Please try and see. Thanks.

> if yes you need to use --sout-keep option and gather in your sout string
> before std{} (or between transcode and std).
> 
> 
> > 
> > P.S., in
> > /usr/share/doc/videolan-doc/html/streaming-howto/en/ch06.html
> >       ps for MPEG2-PS format,
> >       ts for MPEG2-PS format.  <---- You mean TS
> 
> This doc is out-dated. I should remove this package. Use

Important for offline use though.

> http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Documentation