Capture video from vlc command line with a stop time

Question

I\'m trying to capture a video from an RPT stream to my pc (Ubuntu 12-04 LTS). I\'m using vlc from command line as below:

cvlc -vvv rtp://address:port --start

Answer 1

I tried vlc to record a webcam for a specific period. I ended up using the timeout command:

timeout s vlc v4l2:///dev/video1

In Ubuntu it's available without any installation