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Chapter 6. Receive and save a stream
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muxer is one of the formats supported by VLC’s stream output, i.e. :
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ogg for OGG format,
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ps for MPEG2-PS format,
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ts for MPEG2-PS format.
and stream.xyz is the name of the file you want to save the stream to, with the right extension.
Receive a stream with a set-top-box
Some set-top-boxes with Ethernet cards can receive MPEG2-TS streams over UDP and support multicast.
Set-top-boxes known to work with VLC are :
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Pace (http://www.pace.co.uk) set top boxes. (Pace Micro DSL 4000)
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Aminocom (http://www.aminocom.com) set top boxes. (all the models with mpeg2)
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tuxia / gct-allwell (mpeg4 and mpeg2) sigma designs8174 chipset
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i3micro mood200 (mpeg4 and mpeg2 in transport streams)
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