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Originally Posted by rossifeder

hello
but i want to do this differently, I want to start rtmpdump and wait
if there is a connection then start vlc to watch the stream
if there is no conecction (server error , no internet, wrong url , etc etc) then write (echo) there is no stream & exit

try use

rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://xxx -a xxx -y xxx -W wwww -p ZZZZ -f xxx | "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe --play-and-exit" -