Capture Video from a Slingbox

[DLGleason]

I'm going to Nigeria for a work assignment. I purchased a slingbox HD so I could watch US TV from Lagos. It requires a minimum of 384kbps for SD streaming, 1.5 MBps for HD streaming. I've heard that download speeds in Nigeria is considerably less. Can any of you make a recommendation or give me guidance on how I can capture the stream and play it back later? At this point, hardware will not be a problem. I have a Dell XPS laptop, Win7 Home Premium OS, Intel Dual Core T7200 @2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 32 bit. I will get what I need.

[jagabo]

Doesn't the Slingbox stream live video? Where are all the bits going to be saved while your slow pipe downloads? It's like saying you want to open a fire hydrant and sip the water slowly with a straw. Most of the water is going to down the drain.

You'll need to find a way to save the slingbox output to an intermediate storage device. Then sip slowly from that.

[DLGleason]

Jagabo, that's the rub. Because Nigeria probably has slower download bandwidth than required, I'd like to capture it as it comes in and send it to a buffer for later retrieval. I just don't know how all of this works. Any ideas?