The most POPULAR stream recording software (free download):

• WM RECORDER
  the easiest audio/video stream ripper
• REPLAY CAPTURE SUITE
  the best audio/video stream recording/capturing bundle
• REPLAY MUSIC
  the best streaming music recorder

Other RECOMMENDED software and services:

• REPLAY MEDIA GUIDE
  free service to find and record online radio, Internet TV, podcasts
• AVS VIDEO TOOLS
  convert, split, join, remove commercials, edit, rotate, apply effects, capture, transfer, copy, rip and burn DVD and video files
• EMUSIC
  the best legal music download service
• AUDIBLE
  download audio books, audio magazines, newspapers, radio programs
• SOUNDTAXI
  remove DRM protection from Windows Media, iTunes music and video files

Please read our disclaimer before recording any media streams. Otherwise your activity could be considered illegal.

Windows software (NetMeeting, MSN webcam, ICQ web-cam) often uses a DirectShow Overlay for faster, smoother playback of the movie. A video overlay is invisible to many Windows capture programs like SnagIt, because it is handled by a special video hardware. Such screen capture software will then record only a solid color rectangle (usually black, pink or blue, the so called "overlay key color").

But all is not lost, the overlay use for playback may be sometimes turned off, at least temporarily for recording. Here is how to do this:

• Select "Display" from "Control Panel", open "Display Properties" dialog.
• Click "Settings" tab, and then click "Advanced" button.
• Click "Troubleshooting" tab.
• Disable all accelerations by dragging the "Hardware acceleration" option to the left (Move the slider control for hardware acceleration to None).
• Click "OK" button.