Record video from C++

Update: I've created an openframeworks wrapper around the VLC remote features. You can find the details here.

For a new project I needed to be able to record video from within an OpenFrameworks / Cinder project. I immediately started looking for libraries supporting this, but both of the frameworks fell short. Then I saw that the amazing VLC player had all that I needed:

1. Full control from the command line
2. Ability to capture from input devices
3. Ability to save captured movie to file

I researched how to run terminal commands on OSX from within C++, and found out that it's very easy using the system() function. So I created a Gist on Github that shows how to run a simple command from a C++ script. All you need is to run the needed commands from C++ to make VLC do whatever you want to. Check out VLC's command line documentation for more info. You may also need to look at the OSX specific page. I will continue to update this GitHub repository with code as I continue to develop this project further.