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Old February 21st 18, 01:47 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
cameo[_2_]
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Default Any good streaming video recording software out there?

I've found several by googling, but I'd like to hear personal
experiences. I am especially interested in one that you can be set to
record at preset time period, like those old VCR recorders.
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Old February 21st 18, 06:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Any good streaming video recording software out there?

cameo wrote:
I've found several by googling, but I'd like to hear personal
experiences. I am especially interested in one that you can be set to
record at preset time period, like those old VCR recorders.


You mean like Youtube-DL ?

It works. And it does more than Youtube.

The program seems to analyze HTML pages (and associated
Javascript), for certain constructs which suggests a video
wrapper is present. *Nobody* offers direct video play, so you
cannot detect video by an actual single thing in HTML intended
to play video. The web files involved are always very
complicated - you could say in a sense, that the web monkeys
who write the web pages, do this on purpose to try to defect
programs like that.

It doesn't really matter what the name of the program is.

What matters is, the person who wrote that code
*has to work on it every ****ing day*. They have to be chained
to the code, with a chain and a large anchor, to keep them
from escaping. If you stop working on the code, the method
stops working, and the ungrateful users start to complain...
The code could stop working the very next day. The project
needs constant feedback from users, to keep it running.

That's the kind of software you're looking for. There aren't
too many developers who have that level of dedication. Most
developers move on after a few years and do something else.

Note well, the amazingly wide range of supported sources...

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

*******

Streaming does not need to be recorded at a fixed or scheduled
point in time.

However, "Live Streaming" could be quite different. There are
some events which are only Live Streamed. And later, a recorded
and edited copy (removal of boring parts) may be offered as
a regular stream.

These for example, are happening right now.

https://www.c-span.org/live
https://www.c-span.org/live/?channel=c-span-2
https://www.c-span.org/live/?channel=c-span-3

Youtube-DL actually handles CSPAN. You're in luck.
If you need boring talking heads, you now have
access to hours and hours of it.

Paul
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Old February 21st 18, 09:33 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Any good streaming video recording software out there?

cameo wrote:

I've found several by googling, but I'd like to hear personal
experiences. I am especially interested in one that you can be set to
record at preset time period, like those old VCR recorders.


For stream capture, I use Applian's Replay Media Capture (which is a
rebranded copy of Jaksta). I've tried many others but gave up on them.
This one doesn't actually run in the web browser. It is a proxy. When
you start playing the streaming media (video or audio), RMC will capture
the stream. After the site starts delivering the stream, you can do
whatever else you want in the web browser as it is not involved in
playing the stream. In fact, RMC will capture the stream as fast as the
server will deliver it rather than at playback speed. Instead of having
to watch a video for 4 hours in the web browser, RMC will begin the
capture and get it done in around 15 minutes. It will capture multiple
streams at the same time, so you could visit several pages to start
videos from there and RMC will capture them all. I set RMC to capture
up to a max of 4 streams. If I start more streams than that, RMC will
buffer them to queue them for later (when the max of 4 concurrent
captures has reduced, like 1 has completed so a queued one starts).

RMC (and Jaksta) aren't free but then you didn't specify that as a
criteria. I gave up on the freebies. RMC doesn't have a timed
recording. How could it be scheduled to capture a stream until you
visit the web page that delivers the web page? You could have it queue
everything up (i.e., it discovers the streams but doesn't start
retrieving them until you say so). Because I limit the max captured
streams to 4 (any more will get queued), my computer remains responsive.

Some capture programs are actually screen capture tools. What paints on
the screen is what they capture. That means if you move the cursor
across the player window, if there is jerkiness in playback, if there
are stalls due to buffering, or other artifacts from playing the stream,
that crap will also show up in the recording. RMC doesn't capture the
screen. It captures the stream. There are specific protocols that RMC
will detect that are used for streaming.

A long time ago, RMC and many other stream capture programs would
capture RTMPE (RTMP encoded). Adobe never intended RTMPE to be used for
DRM but that is how many sites employed RTMPE. I forget who (it wasn't
Adobe) made legal threats against RTMPE-capable capture software. As a
result, all but some obscure freeware dropped RTMPE support. So you
might find streams that RMC won't record because they use RTMPE.
 




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