Save to File

There are two reasons you would want to save your broadcast to a file. 1) If you're broadcasting a live event, you might want to watch the event again in the future. All you need is VLC to playback the saved file. 2) If you're broadcasting stale videos, you can re-broadcast the saved file with very low CPU usage. The saved file will be in the h264 format, ready to be used in the pre-transcode technique. This realtime method is fast, but won't yield as good quality as offline transcoding.

Setting it up

  1. Read the external VLC tutorial first.
  2. Open VLC.
  3. Set your stream output to the following. Update the path of the file with your username.
#transcode{vb=700, venc=x264{bpyramid=none, weightp=0}, vcodec=h264, acodec=mp3, ab=96, channels=2, threads=2}:duplicate{dst=standard{access=http, mux=asf, dst=localhost:1234},dst=std{access=file, mux=mp4, dst="C:\Users\Name\Desktop\broadcast.mp4"}}
  1. Start streaming with VLC by hitting the play button. Right away, you will see broadcast.mp4 created on your desktop, but it's not in a usable state. You may optionally simultaneously broadcast to Veetle, but it's not required.
  2. Hit the stop button or let the stream naturally stop by reaching the end of the playlist. Now broadcast.mp4 will be finalized. Enjoy watching broadcast.mp4 in the future or re-broadcasting it using the pre-transcode technique.