# Video Record and Playback

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/video-record-and-playback/7843>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 15, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/video-record-and-playback/7843 "2014-01-15T17:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![WildeKurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@WildeKurt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WildeKurt)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/video-record-and-playback/7843/1 "2014-01-15T17:17:00Z")

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I’m wondering if there’s a better way now or planned in the near future to record and playback video streams directly in Ignition. What I’ve come up with requires 3rd party software (VLC). To record I launch the app to record a http stream and send it to a file. To playback I have it read a file and stream it then point the IP Camera Viewer component to that stream. It’s a little cluncky and requires keeping track of the VLC’s PID so I can kill it when done which seems a little like stopping ones car by running it into something.

Kurt

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**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/video-record-and-playback/7843/2 "2014-01-15T20:57:50Z")

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You can try this module based on vlcj:  
[viewtopic.php?f=88&t=10930](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=10930)  
It’s a bit tricky.  
Hth

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**Author:** ![WildeKurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@WildeKurt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WildeKurt)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/video-record-and-playback/7843/3 "2014-01-15T23:23:42Z")

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Well it can’t be any trickier than what I did (also based on vlc). It looks like your solution still requires something to be loaded on clients. I’ll give it a try and let you know how it works out for me.

Kurt