Capturing video streaming on HDD

[Cov]

Hi, I just cannot find a way how to capture video streaming onto HDD.

Here's the streaming I would like to capture:

Mediathek

It's in foreign language.


If you have a tip for me, I would appreciate it very much.


Thank you

[Stephen C]

Had a bit of a search and came across this, not certain it works though
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
The only other thing I can think of is a screen capture app, can't reccomend any inparticular sorry.

[Cov]

Hi Zap !

The FireFox addon DownloadHelper works great for YouTube videos for example, but unfortuantely it doesn't work with the streaming from above.

And yeah, I'm using WM Capture too, but the problem here is, that the streaming sometimes breaks up (slow connection) and as you know, recording software like this captures everything, even the drop outs.

A few seconds ago I tried something else and it seems to work !

► The Orbit Downloader.

During installation make sure to untick all unrelevant boxes, but keep the add to FireFox ticked.

In FireFox I watched the streaming from above and recorded a test sample for a few minutes.

Although there were several drop outs during recording, I was rather surprised to find that the result of the recording hasn't got any drop outs !!

I still can't belive my eyes, need to make further tests .. will report back later.

[Stephen C]

Glad you managed to find something!

[Cov]

Ok, so there is some work involved.

The good new is, that it really records the streaming without the drop outs in excellent quality.
A 20 minutes recording (HQ) resulted in a 600 Megabyte file.

The downside is that the outcome is a .flv file that being played back with the VLC-Player, for some strange reason, doesn't allow to jump forwards or backwards.
I had to close down the player and restart it, to get back to the beginning.

To get a more precise cut out of the scene in question, I then recorded that part with WM Capture (a screen recording tool).

Having set the videobit rate to 1200, 30 fps and the sound to 128 Kbps, the outcome is alright.
A 10 minutes recording (of the original size) then resulted in a 100 Megabyte file.