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Recording Video With VLC

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/* Enable Display of Record Button */
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[[File:vlc-record00.jpg]]The video will record to MPEG format by default and the video file created in My Documents\VLC Record The video will capture to your drive.  The default path in XP is My Documents\VLC Record and in Vista/Windows 7 is C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\vlc , however, this can be set to a custom path. ''note: special thanks to Panama Joe and LG for proving updated information about the VLC Record button.'' ===Capture vs Record===VLC will "capture" the stream and will not re-encode when using the record button.  If you view H.264 MPEG4 and click the record button, the segment of the stream being played will be captured to H.264 MPEG4 directly.  If viewing MPEG1 and record, it will capture MPEG1.  Using the "record button" feature only captures the video and format being viewed.   VLC doesn't specialize in encoding, but is capable at a basic level.  Use of the term "record" is not clear because record can mean "capture" or "encode."  Using the record button does a capture.  However, there is also a way to choose a codec and reencode the video stream. * see: [[Encoding Video With VLC]] for details on how to record using a different video format than the source.  
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