Re: [Sheflug] Howto copy live video playing on computer

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Collins
> Sent: 23 January 2008 07:46
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> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Howto copy live video playing on computer
> 
> Peter Collier wrote:
> > I have paid for a online training course. The course has a 
> video with a tutor 
> > talking and showing examples etc. I have about an hour to 
> spare at work each 
> > day where I could be doing this course but it's not company 
> policy to allow 
> > you to connect your own laptop to the companies LAN. Is 
> there a way of 
> > recording the live video on my laptop at home, so that I 
> could at work 
> > replay / refresh what I had done so far? 
> >   
> If it's a flash video (like youtube et al) then there is a guide at 
> kuro5hin that explains how to download the stream.
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/1/1/211742/0546

There's a command line utility called 'clive' (I saw it updated on
Freshmeat earlier in the week) which will capture flash video and looks
pretty neat.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/clive/?branch_id=68223&release_id=269807
http://home.gna.org/clive/

> 
> If it's an embedded wmv / mpg / mov etc then I think mplayer has got 
> options to download streams as you're watching them.

Ditto VLC I think



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