Multiformat stream recorders: How to download/save/capture/record streaming Windows Media, Real Media, Real Video, Real Audio, Quick Time Videos (.ASF, .WMV, .WMA, .ASX, .WMX, .WVX, .WAX, .RA, .RM, .RAM, .SMIL, .RMVB, .MP3) [RTSP, HTTP or MMS protocols]

How to download/save/capture/record streaming Windows Media, Real Media, Real Video, Real Audio, Quick Time Videos (.asf, .wmv, .wma, .asx, .wmx, .wvx, .wax, .ra, .rm, .rmvb, .ram, .smil, .mp3) [rtsp, http or mms protocols].

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Replay Media Catcher ^{Editor's choice!} (Shareware - $39.95/Windows) - the only stream ripper/recorder that lets you capture streaming Video and .MP3 Audio from RTMP, HTTP, MMS and RTSP protocol servers. And it's incredibly easy to use.

Download Replay Media Catcher. It is free to try.
With Replay Media Catcher you may now record/capture .FLV streaming videos from hundreds of popular places: MySpace, YouTube, ABC, NBC, New York Times, Reuters, FabChannel, TVGuide, MusicBox, Metacafe. For audio and music sites, Replay Media Catcher will capture the MP3 audio files as they stream down to your PC. It works great with sites like MySpace, Pandora, Radio Blog Club, Wolfgang's Vault.

Moreover Replay Media Catcher features "automatic naming" – it can figure out the names of most captured MP3 song files and FLV videos from the popular web sites.

Replay Media Catcher is designed specifically to record/save/capture Flash (.FLV) streaming video and MP3 music. But it also supports stream capture of other protocols and formats:
- rtmp:// Flash Video .FLV files
- http:// Flash Video .FLV files
- mms:// Windows Media files
- rtsp:// Windows Media and Real Audio/Video/Media files
- rtmp:// MP3 Audio
- http:// MP3 Audio
Download Replay Media Catcher. It is free to try.
Buy Replay Media Catcher at Applian for $39.95
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WM Recorder (Shareware - $49.95/Windows)
WM Recorder is extremely easy to use. With just one click, any streamed Windows Media or Real Audio/Real Video link is saved as a recorded file on your PC automatically.

Main features:
- Record at the highest quality on slow connection.
- Watch partially downloaded streams!
- Resume recording from where you left off (for on-demand streams only).
- Record several streams simultaneously.
- Record from password protected streams.
- Schedule recordings
- Turbo Recording - record streams at up to 5x speed.
All the popular streaming formats and protocols are supported:
- Window Media: .WMA, .WMV, .ASF, .ASX, .WAX, .WMX, .WVX (RTSP, MMS, HTTP protocols)
- Real Media/Real Video/Real Audio: .RM, .RMJ, .RAM, .RA, .RMVB, .SMI, .SMIL, and .RPM (RTSP, HTTP protocols)
- QuickTime video: .MOV (HTTP protocol)
- Flash video: .FLV (HTTP protocol)
WM Recorder can record more Windows Media streaming video and audio than any other stream recorder.

Platform: Windows 98/ME/XP/2000/Server 2003
Requirements: Real Player 10 or later, Windows Media Player 7.0 or later.
Price: $49.95 (30 day unconditional money back guarantee).
P.S.: We receive 20 times less assistance requests from our visitors using WM Recorder!
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Replay A/V ^{Editor's choice} (Shareware - $49.90/Windows) - allows you to record almost any streaming audio and video instantaneously, or schedule recordings to happen automatically later. All the popular formats are supported, including:
- Nullsoft video streams (AOL .NSV videos);
- iTunes radio stations (Shoutcast compatible MP3 http streams. You can split and tag mp3 files automatically);
- Windows Media audio and video streams (HTTP, MMS, RTSP);
- Real Audio and Real Video streams (HTTP, RTSP);
- QuickTime (HTTP);
- Sirius and XM Online radio;
- Flash Video (HTTP / .FLV);
- Flash (HTTP / .SWF);
RipTiger (Shareware - $49.99/Windows) is a video stream downloader and audio/video converter. It supports all the most popular stream formats and protocols.

Software Features:
- Download/Rip/Record RTMP Flash Video
- Download/Rip/Record HTTP Flash Video
- Download/Rip/Record Windows Media (HTTP, MMS, RTSP)
- Download/Rip/Record Real Audio/Video (HTTP, RTSP)
- Download/Rip/Record MPEG, QuickTime, Streaming MP3 (Shoutcast)
- Record multiple audio/video streams simultaneously
Platform: Windows.

Download a free trial version of Rip Tiger
Buy RipTiger at RegNow for only $49.99
Net Transport 2.x (Shareware/Windows)
Net Transport can record:

Windows Media streams (.ASF, .ASX, .WMA, .WMV, ...) through HTTP, RTSP and MMS
Real Media streams (.RM, .RA, .RMVB, .RAM, .SMIL) through HTTP, RTSP
QuickTime streams through HTTP
ShoutCast streams (.MP3, .NSV) through HTTP
Net Transport can postprocess metafiles (ASX, RAM, SMIL)
You can download password-protected files. BASIC and NTLM authentication is supported for HTTP, MMS and RTSP downloads. In addition, RN5 authentication works for RTSP downloads. Even OPIE (One Password In Everything) and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) are also supported for FTP.
Shoutcast Metadata Protocol and MP3 broadcast streaming are supported.
Platform: Windows
The free trial period is 90 days.
Price: $24.95.
Download NetTransport 2.x
Buy Net Transport 2.x at Plimus for US $24.95
HiDownload (HD) 7.x (Shareware/Windows)- is the leading download manager that download streaming media.
HiDownload(HD) allows you to download individual files (or lists of files) from the Web and FTP sites and MMS and RTSP sites at the maximum available speed, allow you download movies, music and mp3.
HD can record:

Windows Media streams (.ASF, .ASX, .WMA, .WMV, ...) through HTTP, RTSP and MMS
Real Media streams (.RM, .RMVB, .RA, .RAM, .SMIL, .SMI) through HTTP, RTSP
QuickTime streams through HTTP
Icecast/ShoutCast streams (.MP3, .NSV) through HTTP (can split and tag MP3 files automatically)

HD supports multi-threaded downloading with resuming capability
Downloading using multiple threads (especially video recording), shortens download period significantly (you can fully use your ISP bandwidth).

Platform: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003
The free trial period is 50 days.
Upgrades are free!
Download HiDownload Pro 6.x
Buy HiDownload 7.x Pro at Avantgate for US $39.95
StreamBox VCR Suite 2.0 (Freeware/Windows)
StreamBox VCR can record:

Real Media streams through HTTP, RTSP and PNM
Windows Media streams through HTTP and MMS (very limited support)
QuickTime streams through HTTP (very limited support)
It supports HTTP Proxy servers and download resuming.

StreamBox VCR Suite 2.0 contains:
StreamBox VCR v1.0 Beta 2, Beta 3.0, Beta 3.1, Beta 3.1 SMF (outdated)

StreamBox VCR v1.0 Beta 3.1 SMF+

StreamBox VCR v1.0 Beta 3.1 SMF+turbo

StreamBox Ripper v2.009

RealAudio Renamer

Reading about Streambox VCR problems before downloading is recommended.
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MetaProducts Offline Explorer Pro (OEP) 4.7^{recommended for specific purposes} (Shareware - $70/Windows) is an offline browser. It can download complete web-sites or just selected folders and/or file types at the highest possible speed.
Offline Explorer Pro can save the following streaming audio/video formats to hard disk:

Windows Media audio and video streaming (HTTP, RTSP and MMS protocols)

RealMedia/RealVideo/RealAudio streaming (HTTP, RTSP and PNM protocols)

QucikTime video streaming (HTTP protocol)

Nullsoft .NSV video streaming (HTTP and UNSV protocols)

Offline Explorer Pro can download streaming audio and video from your Windows Media Player, Real Player, QuickTime player to hard disk. Simply give it rtsp://, pnm://, mms://, unsv:// or http:// URL and watch the file from your hard disk. You can also download on-demand audio/video streaming with the highest possible quality even on a slow modem Internet connection.

Offline Explorer Pro support all modern Web technologies, including Flash, XML, Director, RealMedia, VRML, etc. You can browse, data mine, search, export to CD or perform other operations on downloaded sites using a clear, intuitive and convenient user interface

OS: Windows Vista/XP/98/ME/NT/2000
The free trial period is 30 days.
Download Offline Explorer Pro (3 Mb)
Buy Offline Explorer Pro at eSellerate for USD $70
MPlayer and Related projects (Free/Windows, Linux, Mac OS X,...)
MPlayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs), Windows, Mac OS X. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the avifile library).
MPlayer supports streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP. MPlayer can dump streams (i.e. download them and save to HD). MPlayer supports HTTP, RTSP, MMS protocols to record Windows Media, RealVideo/RealAudio, QuickTime Video
To record streaming media get the URL of a stream and use command line strings like in the following examples:
mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://somehost.com/somedirectory/somefile.rm
mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://somehost.com/somedirectory/somefile.ra
mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://somehost.com/somedirectory/somefile.asf
mplayer.exe -dumpstream mms://somehost.com/somedirectory/somefile.wmv
After recording you will get the file stream.dump. You should rename it to .rm, .ra, .asf, .wmv or other format you are using.
Recommended free MPlayer package with GUI for Windows: MPlayer + frontend by Gabor Szecsi (When using it enter your URL in a Media file editbox and "-dumpstream" (without quotes) in MPlayer Extra parameters editbox, then click "Start" button to start recording process).
VLC (Free/Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS ...)
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC can record some streaming content.
Web Stream Recorder (Shareware - $39.95/Windows)
can download Windows Media streams (asf, wmv, wma, asx, wmx, wvx, wax, wvx, wax) streamed through the following protocols:
HTTP
MMS,
RTSP

Web Stream Recorder has an URL interception module for Internet Explorer. You just need to start Web Stream Recorder. Surf the web and do what you want. Interception module will tell to Web Stream Recorder which possible streams you want to download.
Disadvantages:
No download resuming
No ASF indexing
No multiple downloads
No proxy support
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Windows Media Player 9.0 or later.
Free 1 minute trial.
Download Web Stream Recorder

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