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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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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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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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