Can I stream to a media player *and* download simultaneously?

[tezJR]

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I want to use youtube-dl to stream to a media player and download simultaneously. I'm on Windows 7. I can do it, but so far only by calling two instances of youtube-dl, doubling the bandwidth and data used.

[yan12125]

On UNIX (Linux, Mac, etc.), tee can do that. Seems there's a correspondance on Windows

[tezJR]

I've tried various permutations of
youtube-dl -f Mobile "http://twitch.tv/Brotatoe" | tee -o - "http://twitch.tv/Brotatoe" | "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -
in Powershell (I don't know if that's correct), but it just sends me to a >> prompt, which gives another >> prompt no matter what I enter.

[yan12125]

FYI, on Linux the syntax is:

youtube-dl -f Mobile "http://twitch.tv/Brotatoe" -o - | tee output.mp4 | vlc -

[tezJR]

From Powershell's suggestion "3,General" and "The term 'vlc' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.", I changed that to .\youtube-dl -f Mobile "http://twitch.tv/Brotatoe" -o - | tee output.mp4 | "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -
but I still get a >> prompt, but no download or stream that I can see.

(I'm new to both tee and Powershell.)

[yan12125]

I have little knowledge over PowerShell, either. And I don't use Windows. Maybe someone on IRC can help

[tezJR]

PowerShell IRC said PS's pipeline doesn't mix well with binary data, to stick with cmd but something like tee doesn't come stock. They don't know where to go from there though. Powershell's forum hasn't yet replied. I tried Unxutils from your link but it downloads a damaged archive.

I'll try sevenforums. Any other suggestions who I might ask?

[yan12125]

Maybe GNUWin32's coreutils is better than unxutils.

If none tee on Windows works, I guess the only option left is downloading the video to a file and open it after the download starts. For live streams, you may need --hls-use-mpegts so that you can watch the video before the download is complete.

Or stay away from Windows. Microsoft constantly ignores important bugs and brings headaches to users. Well just kidding :P