Mp4 debug: tk 1 elst media time 0 duration 108539273 offset 0 Main debug: removing a sout input (sout_input: 0384ac70) Main debug: killing decoder fourcc `hevc' Live555 error: keep-alive failed: recvfrom() error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host Main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty Live555 warning: no data received in 10s, eof ? Main debug: Stream buffering done (1030 ms in 655 ms) Mp4 warning: Missing frame rate for stream 0, assuming 25fps Stream_out_transcode debug: not transcoding a stream (fcc=`hevc') The log files end up with something like this in them typically, main debug: adding a new sout input for `hevc` (sout_input: 0384ac70) I used this log option on VLC and ran it for a day, -file-logging -log-verbose=3 -logmode=text -logfile=blah How can I get VLC to either exit, or retry in this situation? Otherwise how can I detect this situation? If I can detect then I can close and restart VLC. When this occurs VLC will continue running, but shows no network activity in task manager, and doesn't record anything. This appears to be a network problem of some kind.

The problem now is that sometimes the stream gets interrupted before the 30 minutes is up, and VLC will stop recording. The VLC command looks like this, vlc -qt-start-minimized -sout=#transcode I close VLC every half an hour and restart it so that it records files which are of 30 minutes length. I have a surveillance system which streams RTSP streams to my PC and records them using VLC,

Vlc media player video stops