subject: Benefits of using a Streaming Recorder and How to Guarantee 100% Success to Record Streaming Video [print this page] If you are looking to record online video or music, I hope this short article will summarize a few of the key benefits as well as providing you essential information and facts on how this is actually achieved correctly whilst providing high-quality results.
One Place for All Your Stuff
I happen to record streaming video rather routinely these days and it has got to the position that my laptop computer has transformed into some kind of 'centralized data center'. I literally have almost everything I want in one single place: my computer. Not only do I have my work files but I additionally have my own private data files including all my favorite songs, photos and now, very nearly all my preferred movies and shows all on the same hard-drive.
It can drive you pretty crazy having your data distributed all over the place. In my case, I had music on CD's, memory-sticks and my iPod, videos on VHS, DVD, and my hard-drive media-center. Basically, I had all this media stuff' spread all over the place and it was becoming really time consuming to find what I wanted rapidly.
Why Spend Money Unnecessarily When You Go Out of Town?
It's all very well having video and music made accessible online but what do you do when you're away from home? Of course, you could use your mobile data connection, find a coffee-shop or nearby mall with free wireless Internet access, or even use the hotel's WiFi service. However that can turn out to be expensive, maybe unreliable or in some locations even impossible.
Therefore my answer was to basically download or record the video from my preferred sites and then watch it any time and wherever I wanted (that is: when I had the time, when I felt like it, etc.).
In this brief article, I'm going to focus on recording streaming video. Usually, streaming video (or audio) is transmitted to your computer via a particular method of communication called RTMP ("Real Time Messaging Protocol") which was designed by Adobe Systems - a leading player in the multimedia software business.
The Only Two Methods to Record Online Video
There are a couple of ways to record streaming video. The first method is by using a special software program to record or "download" the streaming video to a video file in your computer. It does this in the background' whilst you actually watch the video itself. The principal advantage of this method is that the quality of video (and audio) is usually excellent. However, there are some broadcasters (for example, the UK's Channel 4 on-demand service) that have rather ingenious detection mechanisms that prevent users from achieving this.
This moves us onto the second approach which is known as screen capture'. Once again, utilizing special computer software, you basically record a region of your screen (or even the full screen itself) and when the TV program ends, you hit the STOP button and the video is saved to a file on your hard drive. Although the quality is not as good as the first approach, at least it works 100% of the time but somewhat annoyingly; you cannot use your computer whilst it's recording. So yes, it's annoying but at least you get to record the video.
Utilizing either of these methods, however, you're guaranteed to get the video onto your computer without any trouble.
Benefits of using a Streaming Recorder and How to Guarantee 100% Success to Record Streaming Video
