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Rednroll wrote on 3/22/2001, 7:44 PM
Wow, and I thought Sonic Foundry was concentrating all
their efforts on becoming a web leading media solution. I
ask 1 streaming media question and no one has a clue on how
to record a video from a live broadcast.
SonyEPM wrote on 3/23/2001, 10:29 AM
You can use screen capture software to do this in some
cases- be aware that there's copy protection issues that
come into play, ie, even with screen cap software you can't
record Real media off the web. The big 3 (Real/MS/Apple)
don't want you to be able to "rip" streaming media.
Rednroll wrote on 3/24/2001, 3:03 PM
Thanks, for the reply. I noticed on the "real Player plus"
it only allows you to record audio, thought that was kinda
odd. Sounds like a good opportunity for SF to develop some
software to do this type of thing. SF could virtually be
the one who invents the VCR for the web. With more
popularity of these broadcast I could see this being very
useful.
timoheil wrote on 3/24/2001, 7:06 PM
A company called Streambox once offered the Streambox VCR
which did exactly what you describe. Guess what happened?
They were sued by RealNetworks and hat to discontinue
their "VCR". Same happened with the Streambox Ripper, which
could convert RealAudio to WAV/MP3.