Best Free Streaming Media Recorder

StreamTransport is very useful. But it can no longer download/record Hulu videos any more.
I would love to know of a software (free or otherwise) that can actually download Hulu videos.
I have checked out Coojah , GetFLV, RipTiger, Hulu downloader, but they don't seem to work for me.
I am using Windows 7 Home edition 64-bit.
Thank you very much.

Thanks for the information in your article. I tried using the CamStudio to record a webminar playing in windows media player. It recorded the audio but not the slides. I tested it on a you tube video and it worked like a charm. Any suggestions? Do I need to change any settings?

After attempting in vain to use a few different applications to record BBC audio streams for programs not available as podcasts, which utilize their own player (iPlayer), I came across Radio Downloader, which worked like a charm -- http://www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/ .

The Debut downloadable software is NOT free. It is only free for a 14 day trial. If there is a link to a more long lasting free version of this I do not know how to get it.

http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/#101

I would recommend looking at TubeMaster++
http://www.tubemaster.net/

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I am looking for an alternative which contains the following features.

Basic stream editing abilities (cut, copy, paste, via a visual representation of the audio stream)

The ability to join multiple streams (also, insert a stream at a specific location within the stream I am editing)

* * * VERY IMPORTANT * * *
NAMED markers (where I can use any name I want) and batch splitting, where the software will create a separate file ("track") for each named marker, using the name of the given marker to save the track under, and the time location of the next marker to determine the duration of the given track (or, in the case of the last marker in the audio stream, the end of the audio stream).

Thanks,
Steve Weber

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annoying article , its confusing as it leaves u wondering how/where the software saves ur recording

why dont these things get weeded out

Just want some general advice of whats possible and not. My explicit problem is that I would like to record a streamed hockey game and watch it later. I've scanned the different software and found nothing about that large amount of streamed data, so...

Is it possible to record for a couple of hours (I will not be at home more than to start the recording) and still get a reasonable file to be saved?

Has any of the software some timer function so I can set a time to stop the recording?

Well I guess it's some problem to let the software handle such big files but I put out the question.

My best
Michael

help me my blackberry nothing is warking on it plz i need help > no vedio or songs is working ????/e.g when i put play in vedio they write {an error accurred attempting to play media} plz help
thanxs

Debut software is neat and their support is great, but the software installs a DRIVER to capture sound from the SPEAKERS, it appears to be inverting the MIKE and the SPEAKERS therefore enabling it to capture directly from the SCREEN whatever is playing. Now, it does not revert all the time the setup to its original state and therefore messes up the use of the MIKE and SPEAKER as original designed making any RECORDING afterwards playing back wobbly... I had to restore my REALTEK HDEF drivers so it would be reset well.
Just words of caution for those who do not back up drivers or do not know how to restore them.

Just for those who do not appreciate this: there is no interface option in the preference tab of 1.3.13. In order to change from the language that is installed dependent on your platform language (ie. if your Windows is in Spanish, it will install AUDACITY in SPANISH) you need to open up the AUDACITY.CFG and edit it manually to add in: Language=en (for English)

NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=1.3.13-beta
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
WantAssociateFiles=1
SnapTo=0
[Version]
Major=1
Minor=3
Micro=13
[Locale]
Language=en

This is quite a JURASSIC way to do thing. The developper of this Sowtware better remember that sometimes one has his OS in the local language but wants some other software running in another. I cannot figure out what cost them so much to just insert an option to selct the USER language as he sees fit that day and another one to change it if he changes his mind.

I think better they focus on the CUSTOMER.

I will now try this softwarte and hope not to come across too many of these lack of customer focus glitches.

Have a nice day.

Roger Bertrand, P. Eng.

I just installed AUDACITY, looks good, but I detest software that installs without asking for the interface language, or at least offer a quick and dirty method or option to change it.

I think this review was limited by its inclusion of only all-purpose streaming recorders, i.e., those that handle both video and audio. There are plenty of good audio streaming recorders not mentioned here. I recently downloaded streamWriter and am very impressed with it. It contains thousands of downloadable streams in its browser that can be searched by keyword or genre. It plays, records, and organizes audio streams. It handles whitelists and blacklists of individual songs, and can even accommodate filters for finding a specific song in a stream. Take a look at it:
http://streamwriter.org/en/

i cant believe that orbit downloader is'nt in the list, as it is by far the easyist and most reliable streaming video recorder ive ever found, once instaled hover mouse over playing media click on grab it and off you go, plus once the download has started you dont need to stay on the same page so is ideal for multiple downloads

Do any of the mentioned stream recorders here able to record say those videos shown in Justin.tv or in Freedocast.com or any of the LIVE streaming ONLINE TV broadcasts?

Thank you in advance.

I'm looking for something like Free Music Zilla, but more reliable. I use it mostly for audio but occasional video as well. Some social networks have changed the way their music is streamed lately and this program no longer works at them. Please recomend only freeware programs. Thanks

Sir,

I will be very grateful if you could let me know as to how to get a printout from a stilled video picture while playing the Real Player.

You could suggest another player,if it can do the needful

You could also direct me to some other website/person who has the know how.
Thanks,

Greetings,

If that which one desires to capture loads into a browser's cache (such as a Flash video from YouTube or a MP3 audio file), then you're in luck. An app that I've used for many years now is NirSoft's VideoCacheView (Publisher's site: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/video_cache_view.html // CNET review [which needs updating]: http://download.cnet.com/VideoCacheView/3000-2381_4-10781777.html ). It's a brute-force approach but it does get the job done (and works with IE, Firefox, Opera & Chrome).

After capturing the file in question, say a .flv (Flash video), one can convert it to another form, such as a MP4 (or for audio, a MP3) and if, for example, it is one part of a longer stream broken into segments (as one often finds at YouTube), it can then be joined together with other such segments to form a continuous whole using editing software. (A less elegant, but still useful, approach is to simply label the segments in a unique successive order and place them in a file, thus allowing them to play automatically, and virtually without discontinuity, in various media players, such as GOM.) So, for example, if one should like to capture that extraordinary performance of the Finale of Bruckner's 8th by Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic posted at YouTube (in three segments), you are good-to-go.

Hope others find this useful.