Streamlink: Possibility of simultaneous viewing and recording of stream?

[flijloku]

It would be good to implement possibility of simultaneous viewing and recording of stream (to save bandwidth). Or this possibility already exists?

[scottbernstein-zz]

Someone already implemented this for the main livestreamer build, but of course since there have been no releases, it's still sitting as a pull request.

Perhaps someone could either integrate into streamlink, or they could contact the original coder to ask him to integrate here?

https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/pull/1204

[https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/4093184?v=3&s=400]https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/pull/1204

Add a record option by grazzolini · Pull Request #1204 · chrippa/livestreamerhttps://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/pull/1204
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I have been using livestreamer for a while now and it is a excellent piece of software. One thing I missed on it was the ability to play a stream while at the same time recording it to a file. This...

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[bastimeyer]

You can use the -O parameter that outputs the stream data to stdout and then pipe it into tee, which then writes the data into a file and pipes it further into your video player...

streamlink -O STREAM best | tee recording.ts | mpv -

[flijloku]

@scottbernstein Thanks, I'll try! P.S: Yes it works!
@bastimeyer This is for linux? Is there an analogue for windows?
@bastimeyer P.S. It works on windows via http://babun.github.io/ ! Thank you!