Streaming Video Capturing

Hello,
I would like to capture streaming video/audio (youtube, etc) as a quicktime, avi and so on. I heard about Snapz Pro X but that costs $70. I also heard that VLC could do it but I can't figure it out. How do I capture streaming video onto my computer for relatively cheap. The cheaper the better of course.
Thanks in advance.

iShowU ranges from $20 for the Standard Definition version to $30 for a HD version and $60 for a Pro version.
Regards
TD

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Streaming video capture

Anyone know of a Mac OS X software that will allow you to capture streaming video from a browser? Kind of like DownloadHelper in Firefox. Would be useful if you can't sit in front of your screen to watch the whole stream. You can just set it up so that the full stream downloads to your hard drive in an Mac compatible video format for viewing at a later time.
Note: *Not a screen capturing software*. ie. Snapz Pro.
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There is now a program called "Snapz Pro." It is a streaming video capture software for Mac. Works great!

Can QT Pro capture streaming video from webcams?

I'm trying to capture segments of video from the National Geographic's Wildcam Africa, in which they have a live feed of video from a waterhole in Africa 24/7. Can QT Pro do this? (All I can find is info on creating streaming video with QT.)

SnapZ Pro can create any format of QuickTime when you "finalize" the file. You only get one choice at this step so you must plan ahead.
If you capture at 640X480 and export to DV Stream you can edit that file with iMovie. Adjust your Display dimensions so your capture gets the biggest version of the on screen area. If the play window is small (most are 320X240) set your Display to 800X600 prior to capture and see if it helps.

What is best program to capture any streaming video ?

Hi, I would like to know what program is recommended to capture streaming video from a website, from a video chat and/or any other source?
Thxs,

I have iShow U. I showU is ok for small low resolution videos and it works you CPU and Ram overtime because it captures and converts everything at the same time.
The best program out there that I have tried is 'SnapzPro', it works way better. It does one thing at a time so you get higher quality results , and higher quality resolution too.
SnapzPro is the best....., but it costs $ bling. You can use the trial version of snapz for free for a week. Make sure you have everything lined up and lots of time so you can make the most of the week.
And yes both of these record 'motion VIDEO' .

How do I capture streaming video on firefox for mac?

Is there a way to save or capture streaming video being watched on Firefox for Mac?

it's possible. i did it myself, after a few tryouts.
i still can't get the best result, but i got something.
first of all you have to save the streaming file(thru the save as qt movie, from CTRL-click). when you get a stream it gets cached on your computer. you might playback it even when offline. so if all that you need is a simple playback, that's ok. but it's a cache, sometime the system will erase it from your HD.
if you want to keep it as a qt file(or any other format) thats this is the deal. when you save the stream file, it saves a reference file(4kb) that reads the cache. you cannot recover them from the cache, not even by changing the termination, because the qt player won't recognize the .qtch files transformed into .mov.
open the file(reference you saved before), choose export from the file menu, and choose the setting that you want. i still don't get a good quality(i know it's incredible that a stream file has a better quality...) and i still have to export the video separated from the audio. but if you need only the moving image to edit a homevideo, and your only source is a stream, it's a start.
so if anyone feel like growing the knowledge tree, let's go ahead.

Capturing live streaming video?

I just bought Quicktime Pro for the sole purpose of recording streaming video to my hard drive. (Win XP) I watch a nest cam in a barn owl nest and want to be able to record the stream during the night so I can see what I've missed. (I'm not noctural the way the owls are.) However, I cannot find a way to do this. When I add the URL, QT tells me it isn't valid. When I click on the stream window to look for a way to copy it, nothing comes up. I am admitedly new to video streaming and hope I am making a simple mistake, but I sure would appreciate some help. Many thanks, Kate

QT Pro for Windows does not include video capture. It can capture audio but not video. Check this page under the words Upgrade Now:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/win.html
In contrast, a similar page for QT for Macintosh mentions capture of both video and audio:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/mac.html

How do I Capture Streaming video with Quicktime Pro?

In Lamonts post about converting video for the iPod, it was pointed out that one can capture streaming video (Steve Jobs Keynote speech for instance), with Quicktime Pro. I have QT7.04 Pro, but don't know how to do this simple thing. Can someone please tell me?
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it's possible. i did it myself, after a few tryouts.
i still can't get the best result, but i got something.
first of all you have to save the streaming file(thru the save as qt movie, from CTRL-click). when you get a stream it gets cached on your computer. you might playback it even when offline. so if all that you need is a simple playback, that's ok. but it's a cache, sometime the system will erase it from your HD.
if you want to keep it as a qt file(or any other format) thats this is the deal. when you save the stream file, it saves a reference file(4kb) that reads the cache. you cannot recover them from the cache, not even by changing the termination, because the qt player won't recognize the .qtch files transformed into .mov.
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Capture streaming video?

I have a new Macbook and hoped there is a way to capture streaming video. There is a concert I want to burn to dvd that can only be played with Real player.

Maybe Real's upgraded version of Real Player will allow you to do just that. I'm not sure though, so check out their site.
http://www.real.com/
If that doesn't work, then try this:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11327_7-6555399-1.html
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Capturing streaming video

Anyone know how to capture streaming video (i.e. Steve Jobs' keynote presentations)?

Streaming media isn't cached (saved) on the viewing machine.
The only way I can think of is to use screen recording software (Snapz Pro) to record the file as it is viewed.
Read the copyright statement on the stream before you attempt this. Personal use, I suppose, would be OK. Rebroadcasting is a no-no.

Supply a stream name to video capture

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Thanks
Daniel

Hi,
I found this post to be very helpful:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3865020#3865020
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I need a USB video capture device that accepts an NTSC color 480i composite signal and presents itself as a video input device that works with QuickTime (or iChat, EvoCam, etc). That last point is important: it can't depend on its own application software (except the drivers, of course) to do the recording. It must appear to the system as a video input like a camera.
Most Mac compatible capture devices I have looked at do not make this easy to figure out, and so far the few devices I have found require their own software to do the entire capture process. Does anybody have any experience or recommendations?

Hi,
A DV Converter that is Firewire to the computer is going to be preferable for iChat.
iChat can accept USB 1.1 input from a device with driver.
We tend to be talking USB 1.1 web cams here as many Converters don't do Drivers for USB in a form iChat can "See"
iChat can accept USB 2.0 UVC complaint Camera input as the Driver has been there since 10.4.9 (and working with iChat).
Again you don't tend to get Converters or Camcorders with UVC Compliant software - only web cams.
I have a Hollywood Dazzle but unfortunately it no longer is fully functional. (it works only as a Firewire Hub at present)
Pinnacle bought out Dazzle but do not support the older products and don't make anything Firewire capable themselves.
The Hollywood Dazzle had two Firewire ports and could in fact allow a camera connect by RCA connectors to be outputted to two computers.
It could also of course take Firewire from the computer back out over the RCA ones to a TV so you could see what iMovie was producing.
iChat will accept Firewire.
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Firewire CamCorders - and as has been mentioned some will act as Analogue to DV converters
There were more Firewire Web cams at one stage but only the Fire-i seems to have survived.
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Can I stream video from my mac to apple tv the same way my ipad or ipod does?

I just got my AppleTV hoping to stream video to it from my iMac. I'm seeing this is possible with mirroring, but there was a ton of lag between the computer and tv, and the sound and video would skip horribly. I plugged the ATV into our ethernet and that has helped tremendously, but there is still some visual lag and skipping going on with the video, noticable enough to drive me crazy when watching something like a movie.
However, I noticed that when I stream the same video to ATV with my iPad, it uses a method other than mirroring; the video is greyed out on the iPad with the ATV symbol on it and sends the video to the tv instead, and it plays seamlessly! I wish I could say this is the solution to my own problem, but most videos I wish to watch are in a flash format, which does not work on iPad and I would therefore need to use my iMac instead.
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My iMac is the newest model currently out I believe. 27", i7 intel processor. The AppleTV is also the newest generation I believe. I just got both barely two weeks ago from the store here.
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I've set everything else up but cannot figure out how to display my laptop screen onto my TV.
As Keithjammer indicates, the TV2 does not "mirror" your screen as the platform's video interface does. Instead, the TV2 device is a wired/wireless remote multimedia player. As such, it only plays files in a compatible compression format. To do what you want it to do would require your platform to first compress the screen audio/video data to a compatible format and then stream it to the device in real time.
I've set everything else up but cannot figure out how to display my laptop screen onto my TV.
Yes, only files can be streamed. You can, of course, capture your screen audio and video data to a compatible file and then stream the file to the TV2 device.
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Streaming Video in Presenter and ConnectPro Meetings

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Ahh, if only that were entirely true!
While you're correct that you can embed flash in your
Presenter files, it's still not possible to use the latest On2 VP6
codecs which is what you need to do if you want high quality large
size video files. Using the Sorenson codec which is what would be
required by your suggestion, means that the video tends to be quite
pixillated and limited to a small frame size, otherwise you end up
with lots of buffering delays.
Our solution allows you to run fullscreen video of unlimited
length from within Presenter and it works in self-paced
presentations and meeting room environments too.
On the issue of posting information about a product on a
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It's not my intent to offend, only to raise awareness.
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Video Capture on recent Windows 8.1 Tablets shows very dark video

Hello,
I switched from direct show to media foundation to capture video from webcams. It is a desktop application and works well with both direct show and media foundation on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 desktop computers for a lot of different webcams.
Trying the same application on a Windows 8.1 Atom based tablet, the video is very dark and green.
I tried it on the following tablets (all of them show the above described behavior):
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When using direct show, all the above mentioned tablets show only a fraction of the sensor image when capturing with lower resolutions (e.g. 640x360), the colors of the video are
fine. I tried it with the desktop app of Skype and GraphEdit, same behavior (only a fraction of the video is shown, colors are fine) - Skype for destkop apparently uses a DirectShow source filter.
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If required, I will post some code or mftrace logs.
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Karl
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On the contrary of my previous post, the MFTrace file shows an error:
"COle32ExportDetours::CoCreateInstance @ Failed to create {FEB9695C-C7DF-4D40-8019-00FA047288FF} KSPlugin Class (C:\Windows\system32\IntelCameraPlugin.dll) hr=0x80004005 E_FAIL"
This dll contains the Intel Camera MFT. While it is on the specified location, it cannot be loaded. According to the Windows Driver Kit documentation, a camera MFT is used in windows store device app.
My assumption is that this MFT is responsible for doing post processing of the video stream from the camera. Since it cannot be loaded, the video stream is dark with a green color fault.
By the way, setting brightness or exposure via IAMVideoProcAmp and IAMCameraControl has no effect, Setting/reading these properties returns S_OK, the properties are stored correctly but obviously ignored.
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