Articles: How To Record Streaming Video

Streaming Video Overview

Streaming video/audio is a multimedia data transferred in a stream of packets that are interpreted and rendered, in real time, by a software application as the packets arrive.

For example, internet movies are streaming videos.

Capture/Save Streaming Videos

From time to time you've probably experienced the frustration of trying to save your favorite internet videos to your local hard drive.

There are several methods / programs to achive this goal. Unfortunately, they are not always reliable, work only with a limited set of video formats / protocols and do not save protected videos. In addition such programs leave video format "AS IS". For example, streaming FLV videos will be stored as .flv files and you need to instal a special FLV player to play them.

Not very convenient!

In our opinion the most powerful way is to record videos directly from screen.

With our ScreenVirtuoso you are able to save all you see & hear!

Advantages:

  1. Supports all streaming video formats.
  2. Allows you to record protected videos.
  3. You can record videos as AVI files.
  4. Supports multiple Video/Audio complressors.
  5. You are able to convert the recorded videos to another video format. For example, convert videos to Flash/WMV to publish them on the Web!

The only problem you have to worry about is the overlays. See our Overlays article to learn how to disable them.
Visit ScreenVirtuoso's Quick Tour for quick advice.
Also see our Performance page to learn more about the performance of recording.