| If you are interested in getting hold of a | | | | In this short article, I'm going to focus on |
| streaming recorder, I hope this short article will | | | | recording streaming video. The majority of |
| offer you with helpful information on the | | | | streaming video or audio is delivered to your |
| advantages, just how this works and what is the | | | | computer using something called RTMP ("Real |
| easiest way to accomplish this. | | | | Time Messaging Protocol") which is really a specific |
| I happen to record streaming video pretty | | | | method of communication to take care of |
| regularly these days and it has got to the stage | | | | streaming content over the internet (RTMP was |
| that my laptop has transformed into some kind | | | | developed by Adobe Systems - a leading player in |
| of 'centralized data center'. My laptop computer | | | | the multimedia software business). |
| has virtually become the one single place where I | | | | There are two principle strategies to record |
| have everything. I have my work, personal | | | | streaming video. |
| documents, photos, my personal music and now, | | | | The first one is by using software to download or |
| almost all my favorite movies and shows all in one | | | | record the online video into a file found on your |
| place. This came quite by accident and occurred | | | | hard-drive. It does this 'in the background' whilst |
| when I started going a bit loony having all types | | | | you actually view the video itself. The major |
| of multi media in different places. I had my music | | | | advantage of this method is that the quality of |
| on CD's, my iPod and lord knows how many | | | | video (and audio) is normally excellent. However, |
| memory sticks; then there were movies on | | | | there are some broadcasters (for instance, the |
| DVD's and on my home hard-drive / DVD player. | | | | UK's Channel 4 on-demand service) that have |
| Basically, I had all this media 'stuff' spread all over | | | | rather clever detection mechanisms which |
| the place and it was turning out to be genuinely | | | | prevent people from achieving this. |
| awkward to locate what I wanted quickly. | | | | So if this fails, you need to proceed to the |
| Now it is all very well having video and music | | | | second technique which is known as 'screen |
| made available online but what happens when you | | | | capture'. Once again, using special software, you |
| are out of town? Of course, you could use your | | | | basically record a region of your screen (or even |
| mobile data link, pop down to your nearby local | | | | the full screen itself) and when the TV program |
| cafe or even connect to the Net with the hotel's | | | | ends, you hit the STOP button and the video is |
| WiFi service. But I have discovered that this is | | | | saved to a file on your hard disk. Whilst the |
| often cumbersome or even turns out to be quite | | | | quality isn't as great as the first approach, at least |
| costly in the end (have a shot at watching a | | | | it works 100% of the time but rather irritatingly, |
| movie on your mobile data connection and you | | | | you can't use your computer whilst it's recording. |
| are going to fall down when you get the bill!). | | | | So yes, it is a pain but at least you get to record |
| So my answer was to basically download or | | | | the video. |
| record the video from my preferred sites and | | | | With these two techniques, you're guaranteed to |
| after that watch it when and where ever I want | | | | get the video onto your computer without any |
| (when I had the time, when I felt like it, etc.). | | | | difficulty whatsoever. |