Best Free Streaming Media Recorder [1]
Introduction
Sick of just watching streamed videos and audio tracks, and not being able to save them? So are many others, and this demand has given rise to nearly a dozen utilities that will record them to your PC.
The bad news is that the best recording utilities in this category are shareware not freeware. That is because the websites of some better free programs like StreamBox VCR and GetASFStream have been 'chased off' the web by copyright owners. You can still occasionally locate the aforementioned software on obscure download sites, but none of them are stable enough to warrant listing here.
An alternative for most users is to use a free web service like KeepVid [3] to download the streaming media, and if that approach does not work on a stream, you can simply record the streaming media while it is playing on your PC. Sure, there is some loss of quality, but the great advantage of this approach is that you can record it in a form that is free of any protection and can therefore be replayed through any device supporting the appropriate file format.
While it is possible to record streaming media, you need to be very aware that a lot of streamed content is copyrighted and that recording such content may violate the copyright laws of your country. So, in advising you about products that record streaming media, I am assuming you only want to record non-copyright material.
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Gizmos Freeware [9]
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| Our Rating: 3.5/5 |
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