Recording a live stream (1 Viewer)

[The Curr]

I'm hoping @Marty or someone will be able to help me. I'm looking for a way to record a live stream and save it to my hard drive to watch again. I assumed it'd be fairly straight forward but I haven't had any success. There's probably a great program out there for exactly this but I haven't found it yet.

 

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[Enron]

Just get the program that kids use on xBox.

 

[The Curr]

Do you need an xbox for that?

 

[Enron]

No, I think it's some sort of program you download.

 

[Marty]

I'm hoping @Marty or someone will be able to help me. I'm looking for a way to record a live stream and save it to my hard drive to watch again. I assumed it'd be fairly straight forward but I haven't had any success. There's probably a great program out there for exactly this but I haven't found it yet.

Two good solutions, in order of (my) preference:

1) Open Broadcaster Software
2) FFSplit

Both are free. I find OBS easier to work with.

So instead of broadcasting something you record it to harddrive instead, it's in the settings. I'm using OBS when I'm streaming here. If you're having issues setting it up let me know and I'll help you.

 

[TrezJuve]

Two good solutions, in order of (my) preference:

1) Open Broadcaster Software
2) FFSplit

Both are free. I find OBS easier to work with.

So instead of broadcasting something you record it to harddrive instead, it's in the settings. I'm using OBS when I'm streaming here. If you're having issues setting it up let me know and I'll help you.

Does it count as an upload?

Here, there's a limit it isn't free.

 

[Marty]

Does it count as an upload?

Here, there's a limit it isn't free.

I'm not sure what you mean. These programs capture your screen (or parts of it, depends on how you set it up) and audio.

You can then either re-stream the stream or save it to your hard drive. Or both.

Just a little extra info though. You need a pretty powerful CPU in order to use these programs on a high quality stream. For a flawless 720p recording you need a pretty good CPU. Out of my 4 computers only my Intel i5-3570k can manage it.

 

[TrezJuve]

I meant if you actually load the stream a second time by using the program. It's alright though, if it captures the screen I guess it doesn't.

I have an Intel i7-3610QM, would it work?

 

[Marty]

I meant if you actually load the stream a second time by using the program. It's alright though, if it captures the screen I guess it doesn't.

I have an Intel i7-3610QM, would it work?

Yeah you don't load the stream a second time. Play around with OBS a bit, you'll get a hang of it shortly. I might do video guide later, need to do some coding this afternoon though.

That CPU will work swell

 

[The Curr]

Two good solutions, in order of (my) preference:

1) Open Broadcaster Software
2) FFSplit

Both are free. I find OBS easier to work with.

So instead of broadcasting something you record it to harddrive instead, it's in the settings. I'm using OBS when I'm streaming here. If you're having issues setting it up let me know and I'll help you.

Thanks a million. I'll have a go with OBS and let you know if I need help.

My processor is a "Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz". How's that?

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It looks like OBS will do the job. It really easy to use too. Nice one, Marty!