OT: Capture streaming video

[bcorkery]

A friend, Ted Enberg, the son of a client, has been doing a lot of game calling (not name calling) for Stanford and has asked me to record some of these games. I recorded Stanford's women's soccer game last Saturday and posted it for him. Being an audio guy, I assumed he wanted the audio. Well, it turns out he wanted video.

Is there a good program, at a comfortable price, that can capture streaming video off the Net???

Thanks,
Bill

[cgrafx]

A friend, Ted Enberg, the son of a client, has been doing a lot of game calling (not name calling) for Stanford and has asked me to record some of these games. I recorded Stanford's women's soccer game last Saturday and posted it for him. Being an audio guy, I assumed he wanted the audio. Well, it turns out he wanted video.

Is there a good program, at a comfortable price, that can capture streaming video off the Net???

Thanks,
Bill

You should be able to use VLC and better yet its free.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

[Philippe M]

It depends on the website where the video is, where it is hosted...
According to the case, I use the following freewares: Free Download Manager, Orbit Downloader or RealPlayer.
I also bought Replay Media Catcher by Applian Technologies few years ago, when it was discounted to about $ 29: it is a very good software!
Unfortunately it is currently $ 49.95. You can try it for free and, if you're conviced, wait a promotion.

[bcorkery]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have VLC and didn't know it would capture streaming video. I'll have to look at it more closely. I got it because I needed to play back and transcode odd video formats. That thing will play almost anything!

It'll be the live stream from Stanford's website. I want to capture various sporting events that Ted will be announcing. Replay sounds interesting too. Has anybody tried Movavi? It's rated better than Camtasia at a fraction of the cost.

[AlanH]

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio has great screen capture facility if you can get the streamed program to play full-screen (ideally on a second monitor). It's really versatile - and free! Ideal for screen capture for tutorials etc. as well.

[bcorkery]

Thanks Alan, I'll have a look.

What would make it easier on me, or whoever will be doing the capture, would be if the program could be set to start and end at certain times. Any programs with that feature? Maybe? Possibly???

[Microstudio]

If you are on a PC Camtastia and if you are on a Mac Screenflow

[bcorkery]

Thanks all. That OBS program seems very robust with lots of options. I took a serious look at Movavi and it has a start and stop time, it has a simple interface with some powerful options so I gave it a try this weekend and it did a great job capturing a couple of volleyball games. The downside is there's no specific time for a match to end so I'll have to set it long, hopefully long enough and chop off any excess.