title: download video stream without playback on VLC
body: <p>I want to keep streaming video stream from server without playback.
  Can I use VLC to do so? </p>
  
  <p>I am using Windows VLC. I tried the following but playback will still pop up.</p>
  
  <pre><code>vlc -I dummy --dummy-quiet http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/NTV-Public-IPS.m3u8
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>