record

The record command is used to create and manage video recordings. For more information, see Configuring Recording Outputs and Managing Recordings.

Synopsis

record create stream=id
record ID start
record ID stop
record ID close
record ID get
record list
record delete [filename, all]
record copy filename usb
record move filename usb

Actions

Action	Description
create	Creates a recording for a stream. A series of one or more parameter=value pairs can be specified at once. See Parameters below.
start	Starts recording a stream.
stop	Stops recording a stream.
close	Closes a recording of a stream
get	Displays information on the recording. You can specify configuration, stats, or all recording information. Tip To display a summary of all the streams in a table format, you can use record all get table.
list	Lists the available recordings on the system.
delete	Deletes either the recording specified by `<filename>` or all recordings.
copy	Copies the recording specified by `<filename>` to a USB device
move	Moves the recording specified by `<filename>` to a USB device and deletes the recording from the encoder.

Parameters

Parameter	Default	Description/Values
`name`		The identifying prefix for recorded files. If not specified, the stream name or ID will be used.
`format`	ts	The file format for recordings, either: mp4 ts
`limit`		The recording duration or size, ex 1h30m, 500M
`segment`		Enables segmented recording by specifying the duration or size of each segment.
`recycle`	off	When segmented recording is enabled and the recording is limited in space or time, this enables the overwriting of older segments when that limit is reached.
`subtitles`	off	When recording in mp4 format, this enables the generation of SubRip files to save any closed caption present in the stream being recorded.
`start`	off	Starts recording directly at recording creation time. The IDs of recordings always match the ID of the stream associated with it.
`export`	off	Exports recordings and segments automatically when they are complete.
`destination`		The destination of recording transfers when export is enabled. `id` or `name`
`delete`	off	Deletes recordings when they are successfully transferred. The IDs of recordings always match the ID of the associated stream.

Examples

# record all get

Records information for the recording, for example:

Recording ID : 1
Recording Name : "continuous"
Configuration:
Format : TS
Recording Limit : 5d5h
Segmented : On
Segment Limit : 10m
Segment Recycling : Off
Auto-Export : Off

# record list

Lists the available recordings, for example:

Recordings (in /mnt/storage1/recordings/):
Test-2015-04-10-14h11m09s.mp4 (1920x1080, 36s, 25.66MB, root)
REC-2015-04-12-21h11m06s.mp4 (1920x1080p29, 23s, 16.55MB, root)
TEST-2015-04-12-23h20m20s.mp4 (1280x720p60, 2h41m12s, 43.50MB, root)
TEST-2015-04-13-10h10m15s.mp4 (1280x720p60, 27m36s, 35.70MB, root)
TEST-2015-04-13-10h38m56s.mp4 (1280x720p, 1m, 35.59MB, root)
TEST-2015-04-14-11h52m05s.mp4 (1280x720p, 1m, 41.51MB, root)
TEST-2015-04-14-13h50m52s.ts (1280x720p60, 3h34m49s, 44.77MB, root)
TEST-2015-04-14-17h26m45s.ts (1920x1080i29, 1m, 44.24MB, root)
continuous-2015-05-19-12h16m12s (Segmented, 1920x1080p30, 20h34m49s,
222.34GB, root)

9 recordings are available.
222.81GB (100%) of 222.81GB recording disk storage space used.

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