Favorite stream rippers
(Credit:
CNET Networks)
When RealPlayer launched back in 1995, it was mostly used to provide consumers with streaming audio and video content without giving them a local copy. Its feature set has grown considerably in recent years, but it's still surprising to see a new RealPlayer 11 beta version that lets users record YouTube videos and Internet radio directly to their hard drives.
Recording streaming media is nothing new, of course. Open-source app Streamripper32 has been letting users record Shoutcast radio for many years, and my favorite audio player, Quintessential Player, can automatically record nearly any audio stream.
Extensions for Mozilla Firefox like Ook Video Ook allow you to save any embedded content in a Web page, including YouTube videos and MySpace audio streams, whereas VideoDownloader focuses more on simply downloading all online videos.
RealPlayer's emergence into the stream-ripping genre is a definite validation of the concept, though the legal issues around the topic seem far from settled.
What do you use to download streaming audio and video locally? Tell me about it in the comments.
-rip flash streams like 610WIP.com's radio stream (610WIP = Philadelphia based sports station with live flash stream)
-download certain types of streaming ASF and WMV content that is stored on a remote server
-rip live windows media streams
-works in ripping certain ASX streams
FlashGet also comes with a flash monitor addon. When you hover over flash content, a little flashget box pops up. If you click the box, FlashGet will start a download for the content without you having to obtain any links.
HiDownload:
Does everything that FlashGet does, but covers those other ASX streams, and ASF/WMV content that FlashGet can't handle. I dont like the interface as much as FlashGet, so I only use HiDownload for those items FlashGet can't handle.
FreeDownloadManager:
It works to download certain WMV content that FlashGet and HiDownload can't handle.
You guys had nothing on it. You guys have been falling behind in alot lately. I use to get updates as soon as they
came out. Now I get updated before I get the notice from Cnet 4 or 5 days later & sometimes a week....
http://www.screamer-radio.com/
Excellent Freeware program that allows you to capture audio streams and automatically convert them to mp3. They are then saved automatically. Many internet radio stations from around the world are available to choose from.
It's easy to use
It's not bloated
It's ad free
It has no spyware
It has a huge database of radio stations
It has a cool peak meter
You can easily record what you're listening to
You can hide it in the system tray
You can play back on multiple soundcards
.. and it's free!
Supported Stream Types
Shoutcast and Icecast MP3 Streaming
Icecast OGG Vorbis Streaming
WMA Streaming
AAC Streaming
Recording Features
Recording buffer: start recording in the middle and still save the entire song!
Direct MP3 Audio stream saving, no loss of quality!
Direct OGG Vorbis stream saving, no loss of quality!
Or encode OGG Vorbis as MP3 using Lame
Encode WMA or AAC to MP3 using Lame
Audacity and
Wavosaur.
Now I have to confess something. Both are not user's friendly.
DiVernieri
coupon number: NMN224466
Streamripper X, for the Mac
FredTheJazzman 7/10/07
The Focus software has no noticeable (if any) loss of sound quality.
I'll have to check out some of these apps mentioned here. They sound like they work well.
Save YouTube videos straight to your hard drive!!!
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Its so EASY too!
Download this Awesome!!! script written by Ricardo Garcia
Gonzalez
youtube-dl From:
http://www.arrakis.es/%7Erggi3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl
Installation Instructions ...
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How To Capture YouTube Videos
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(For CLI junkies .... ;-)
1 - login as root
2 - From Bash save the above script to /usr/bin/
3 - Change permissions on the file to be fully executable
4 - cd to /usr/bin [as user]
5 - Type youtube-dl youtube-dl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWlXPLkGXI
[or whatever the path is to the YouTube video]
Whala!!! you done!
Tip: You can even specify the output path to any directory
by using -o [path]/[yourfilename].flv
Tip: I can play .flv's straight in smplayer, but your
video player may not support flash video so ...
You can convert flv files to avi using the following
OpenSource program: ffmpeg
You can Downlad it free from the packman repository
Bash command: ffmpeg -i my_flash_video.flv
the_avi_file.avi
"Thank You Ricardo!"
"You da Bomb!"
-- Byron --
Linux Rules! ;o)
Broadband is not yet available [nor scheduled] for this rural area. Therefore, live streaming is very 'jerky' w/many starts & stops. I have tried downloading YouTube to my HDD w/Tube Me, YouRipper & YouTube Downloader w/o success [apparently due to my slow connection speed] for playback w/o interruptions. Do you have any recommendations for some FREEWARE that works in my situation? Thanks, BWH
- I use ULTRAGET for You Tube Videos
- by theonly1mooner July 10, 2007 3:58 PM PDT
- go here to get your copy It's Free. it lets you download & save to your Harddrive to view later. Very Easy.
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