How to stop live stream recording?

[rhazor]

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How to stop live stream recording? Pressing Q does not do anything. And CTRL+C stops it, but then I'm left with a .part extension file, which is not a video.

I found this #8932 but it is unsolved and locked.

[dstftw]

Ctrl+C works fine. Do not hit it multiple times.

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It seems to work on Windows, but not macOS.

[sebma]

@rhazor You can use the timeout command if you know in advance how long the recording is going to last, example to stop recording after 1h50m :

timeout -s SIGINT 110m youtube-dl -f 93 $your_Youtube_Live_Stream_URL
# timeout can also accept floating point numbers, which for 110m equals to 1.83333333333333333333 hours : 
timeout -s SIGINT 1.83333333333333333333h youtube-dl -f 93 $your_Youtube_Live_Stream_URL