Remember when i said I ran across a way to record streaming audio[1]? Well, it can, of course be used to record video as well... I'm planning on setting the thing up to record WKYT's video stream (during local broadcasts, of course--when they're using feeds all you see are commercials). 'tis easy to do, just change the script to save as asf instead of mp3 (unless ya wanna change the extension later) and pop in the stream location--WKYT's is mms://a1832.l731147410.c7311.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1832/7311/v0001/reflector:47410 fun stuff... [UPDATE - 6:45pm] I tried it unscheduled, so that i could monitor the thing, and it didn't work so well... the first five minutes were crystal clear, after that, the thing started hiccuping... I don't know whether it's due to the process not having "high priority" or whether it was having bandwidth issues... I'm thinking it was both... Might've also been related to the fact that I was performing other operations (moving files--yeah, I know--moron for heavy disk-access during an operation which needed disk access)... Tags: #randomness
1: http://kg4vma.livejournal.com/180542.html
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