Saving online video/sound stream onto mac

[brasiliangringo]

Hi, I read the computer saves live streaming video (Eg playing yutube) somewhere on the disk. Can anyone tell me short of downloading some program which will do it, how i can use what i already have to access this stream on my macbook unibody ?

Ive tried saving online streaming with VLC but didnt work and other free or demo programs didnt capture the sound so be grateful for any ways simply utilising my mac and terminal to get these streams !

thanks

 

[VictorNT]

SnapzProX from Ambrosia Software. It's not free but it works !

 

[brasiliangringo]

Have pro version of Snapz - hate it. Theres not menu fuction, no instructions how to start/stop recording, it dissapears and doesnt stay in the dock so have to find it in apps, then it saves very pixelated versions of the stream, which are crap.. I tried some others but the sound wasnt there.. Jinx, seerium, mozilla ad on which doesnt save the tv stream i want (granted it works for youtube)

 

[jackerin]

You're gonna have to do a lot more research when it comes to stream-recording.

My favourite methods: for realmedia streams, CLI (Terminal) mplayer with the -dumpstream option; for windows media, mmsclient.

Some newer methods like the flash over RTSP (iirc) only have working recorders for Windows.

 

[EMKoper]

Simple Technique -- with Safari

If trying to capture a youtube video, you can use Safari... see hint:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070420014456930

If you're using Safari, there's an easy way to download YouTube videos. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows the Activity window. If you're also loading other sites, you'll see a list of them: scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about what is being loaded.

You will certainly notice an element whose size is over 0.5MB (most of the time, over 5MB). Double-click on it (even if it is still loading), and Safari will download it. When the download is over, navigate to the file in the Finder (which will probably be called get_video) and add the extension .flv to its name. Now you can play it with VLC or with QuickTime (only if you have Perian installed).