Capture Streaming Video in Media Player 6, Help Needed...

[ebturner69]

There is a live Iron Maiden webcast on March 21st that requires Media Player 6 or better. I would really like to capture the webcast for a later burn to a VCD. As I am a diehard Maiden Fan!!

Is there any way to do this? The webcast will be about 2 hours long. I have plenty of disk space... I just need a way to do this since it is streaming video & audio.

I do not have any special capture cards or hardware. Just the Media Player and a high speed connection. I'm hoping for a software solution or a setting in Media Player that allows me to save the file. (didn't see anything though...)

Thanks for your assistance!
Eric

[buzzinhornets]

you need streambox vcr or asfrecorder... here are full instructions I made for capturing 90% of streaming media out there

1) download SBVCR 3.1 and the Flying Ranchy Stealh Mulder Crack (the latest one) and URLSnooper available here or if the links are dead at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buzzinhornetz2001
(to get access to yahoo groups, just fill in the 1min form then join that group, then go to the files section and it's all there ...and MORE!)

2) Install everything. (hopefully you are running Win98, cause any problems you run into with WinME, or Win2000, or WinXP I can't help you with)

3) Go the webpage where the link to the Streaming Media is (the link that when you click on it, opens up RealPlayer or WinMediaPlayer) but don't click it yet! Launch URLSnooper

4) In URLSNooper click on the Search TAB, then click SNIFF NETWORK button... wait a few seconds. Now go back to your InternetExplorer (or whatever browser you use) and click on the link to launch the video in Realplayer or WMP. Wait until the video has started playing... (that is any little crappy commercials, or short webpage identification has played, and the actually video you want has started to play.)

5) Go back to URLSnooper, and click STOP SEARCH button. You can stop WMP or realplayer now also.

6) In URLSNooper, on that SERACH TAB under the sniff and stop buttons is a long list of crap. You need to slowly scroll thru that list, looking for URLs that start with stuff like "mms://**.asf" or "rtsp://**.rm" or "http://**.wmv" or any combination starting with mms:// http:// rtsp:// and ending in .rm .asf .wmv .ram .mpg .avi .mov

You see, there are several video formats which end in different extensions such as .asf .wmv .rm .ram .mov .mpg .mpeg .avi
You need be familiar with these endings. Memorize them!

So in URLSnooper, that list of URLs could have things such as, but not limited to:
"http://**.asf" "http://**.wmv" "mms://**.asf" "mms://**.wmv" "rtsp://**.rm" "rtsp://**.ram" "http://**.mov"

7) Now that you've identified URL or a few of them which seem to match that format of xxx:// something .**
you need to know which one is right URL. (it's usually the first one you come across but to be sure, right click on that URl in URLSnooper list and go LAUNCH URL. Hopefully WMP, RealPlayer, or QUICKtime player will successfully open up and play the video you wanted. If not keep going down the list until you get the right address to the video.

8) Now that you've found the "real" link (see streaming websites hide the real address behing a bunch of crap to stop you from saving the videos to your harddrive), again right click on it and choose COPY TO CLIPBOARD.

9) Launch StreamBoxVCR and click on the button at the top of the screen that has a GLOBE WITH A LITTLE YELLOW CHAIN across it (this button is 3rd from the left, directly below the word download on the top toolbar) A NEW ITEM WINDOW pops up.

10) Right Click in the location empty bar and click PASTE. Now the URL is pasted in the location bar. Type a place you want the file saved on your computer in the DESTINATION bar, eg. C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP, and finally click OK.

11) The file should start downloading... if nothing happens for a long time, look at the right frame/window of STREAMboxVCR and read what it says... if says some kind of error or timeout, you might have done something wrong, the link may not be recordable, or someother problem has occured.

12) Hopefully the file finishes to save. Then click on it and watch and enjoy. To clear finished downloads from your streambox screen Click on the file, and click the RedCircle with the red X in it. And just experiment with the butttons to see what they do.

13) FOr Live streams, like live news, live bigbrother type shows, etc. I recommend ASFRecorder instead of Streambox, as the ASFRec. will make the video seekable(fast-forward-able) whereas SBVCR won't. Use URLSnooper again to get the REAL address of the video, and paste it in ASFRecorder.

14) ASFRecorder can be found here also

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buzzinhornetz2001

15) Now go practice on this site http://www.nakednews.com

NOTE!!! streams which require a password/username to access WILL NEVER EVER EVER RECORD! Don't know why, but that is the case!