Best way to capture my granddaughter's streaming hockey games

[Cynthia Moore]

My granddaughter's hockey team was in a tournament this weekend. The games were recorded and posted online. I would like to capture the videos and then do some simple editing, such as cutting a lot of the dead footage. Each video is about an hour long.

Can someone recommend some Windows 10 software that I can use to capture the videos and then do the editing?

I'm probably not going to be doing a lot of this, so I'd prefer not to spend hundreds of dollars on software, but I don;t mind paying something for good software that is supported. That is, it doesn't need to be freeware.

Is there anything that is built into Windows 10 or Office 365 that I can use?

Are there any good (simple) tutorials on how to do this? Again, I am not going to be doing anything exotic.

Thanks

[Cynthia Moore]

After a little research, I discovered the Win 10 Screen Recorder. I was able to record one of the hockey games to an MP4 file, but there is no audio. Do I need to enable audio somehow?

[poisondeathray]

You should be able to download it directly , maybe even with browser plugins, but there are other free tools that should be able to download just about anything

Generally you don't want to screen capture, or only as a last resort . The file size will be larger for lower audio and video quality, and you are at risk of introducing duplicate frames or even dropped frames (often there is a mismatch between your recording frame rate, and the video frame rate) . You generally want to download it directly so you have a 1:1 original copy

But there are different types of "streaming" and different protocols used to stream. There are different tools appropriate for different situations. If you provide the URL address someone will probably make some suggestions as to what will work

[Cynthia Moore]

You should be able to download it directly , maybe even with browser plugins, but there are other free tools that should be able to download just about anything

Generally you don't want to screen capture, or only as a last resort . The file size will be larger for lower audio and video quality, and you are at risk of introducing duplicate frames or even dropped frames (often there is a mismatch between your recording frame rate, and the video frame rate) . You generally want to download it directly so you have a 1:1 original copy

But there are different types of "streaming" and different protocols used to stream. There are different tools appropriate for different situations. If you provide the URL address someone will probably make some suggestions as to what will work

Thanks for the info on downloading vs capture. I didn't know that.

Here's the URL for the entire tournament:

https://livestream.com/accounts/5955069/events/7999784/videos/

The individual games are in the column on the right.

Here's one of the games my granddaughter was in:

https://livestream.com/accounts/5955069/events/7999784/videos/168851616

Thanks for any suggestions.

PS: I also discovered that the Win 1o Screen Capture won;t work of the window being captured is full screen. What's up with that?

PPS: I guess I should have posted this in the next section, Video Streaming Downloading. Sorry about that. Newbie error. Please feel free to move it if that's best.

[jagabo]

Youtube-dl can download the videos directly from the site. Follow the instructions in this post:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/384888-how-can-i-make-drag-an-drop-batch-file-for-...xe#post2495186

Then copy the URL of the page with the video you want to the clipboard and double click on _cb2ytdl.bat in the youtube-dl folder. With your second link "Hingham Red vs. Duxbury A - Fri. 7_40 PM-168851616.mp4" will be download and saved in the same folder within several minutes. By default the program downloads the highest quality version available. In this case an hour long 848x480, 29.97 fps MP4 file with AVC video and AAC audio.

[poisondeathray]

youtube-dl can download single videos or a playlist from that site . But it's a command line application

If you wanted to download the entire playlist for the tournament, you would use --yes-playlist . So it would look like this

youtube-dl --yes-playlist https://livestream.com/accounts/5955069/events/7999784/videos/

There are a bunch of GUI's or front ends for it, but I'm not up to date on the easiest to use or the "best" one . Someone will probably suggest one

[Bernix]

If you are using Firefox, you can use Videodownloadhelper. It detected HLS stream. Testing if it will contain sound. Will report soon.
Done 848x480 about 700MB with sound.

The bit of problem with editing can be it is variable framerate. At least mediainfo say so.
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 30.185 FPS
Minimum frame rate : 15.152 FPS
Maximum frame rate : 30.303 FPS

Bernix

[Cynthia Moore]

Youtube-dl can download the videos directly from the site. Follow the instructions in this post:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/384888-how-can-i-make-drag-an-drop-batch-file-for-...xe#post2495186

Then copy the URL of the page with the video you want to the clipboard and double click on _cb2ytdl.bat in the youtube-dl folder. With your second link "Hingham Red vs. Duxbury A - Fri. 7_40 PM-168851616.mp4" will be download and saved in the same folder within several minutes. By default the program downloads the highest quality version available. In this case an hour long 848x480, 29.97 fps MP4 file with AVC video and AAC audio.

jagabo,

Thanks for that information. In checking it out, I see that there is a gui version of youtube-dl called youtube-dl-gui. I'm only somewhat comfortable with command line apps. Would the gui version be better for me? Is there any difference other than the interface?

Thanks,

cm

[jagabo]

I've never used any of the GUI versions. If you just want the highest quality version of the videos my batch file (once you get it set up, and all you need to do is download and copy a few files) is actually easier to use than any GUI.

[Cynthia Moore]

I've never used any of the GUI versions. If you just want the highest quality version of the videos my batch file (once you get it set up, and all you need to do is download and copy a few files) is actually easier to use than any GUI.

Trying to keep it as simple as possible, I just downloaded youtube-dl, put it in the Path, and ran it from the Command Line pasting the URL in in quotes. It took me about 20 minutes to download all 4 of the matches my granddaughter played in.

I want to thank you so very much for the help. This is wonderful.

Now I'm off to learn about video editing tools to I can cut out the dead footage and maybe add some bookmarks to highlight plays where she is especially visible.

Again, thanks a million. This is a million times better than screen capture.

[jagabo]

Glad to hear it worked out for you.

[David Banner]

I've never used any of the GUI versions. If you just want the highest quality version of the videos my batch file (once you get it set up, and all you need to do is download and copy a few files) is actually easier to use than any GUI.

Trying to keep it as simple as possible, I just downloaded youtube-dl, put it in the Path, and ran it from the Command Line pasting the URL in in quotes. It took me about 20 minutes to download all 4 of the matches my granddaughter played in.

I want to thank you so very much for the help. This is wonderful.

Now I'm off to learn about video editing tools to I can cut out the dead footage and maybe add some bookmarks to highlight plays where she is especially visible.

Again, thanks a million. This is a million times better than screen capture.

solveigmm video splitter is pretty good but not free