Review
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Streaming Video Recorder can easily record online video not only from popular social video websites, including YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Megavideo, Metacafe, Vimeo, but also from online TV websites like NBC, PBS and CBS. It can record streaming videos and TV in a wide range of video formats, such as FLV, AVI, MP4, WMV and SWF.
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 2.1
The Internet is an almost inexhaustible source of interesting video files. Unfortunately, many of them appear only during a limited period of time, thus preventing us to watch them whenever we want. This program is a solution to this. It lets you download any video stream from a webpage, such as online TV shows, live transmissions, and so on. A great advantage of the program is that it detects automatically the media present in a webpage when your browser opens it. All you need to do is click on the popup that appears, and the video will start downloading automatically. Alternatively, you can add manually the URL of the video you want to download. Also, the program has a built-in player that lets you watch your recently downloaded videos.
Once you have downloaded the videos, you can convert them to any of the most popular formats, such as AVI, MOV, MPEG, MP4 and so on. This allows you to burn them into a DVD or transfer them to any portable device such as your cell phone or iPod. This new version does not show any visible difference with the previous one, since the interface, options and features appear to be the same.
The trial version has some limitations. For example, it only allows you to download 30% of the video file, and a "nagging" popup window appears at the beginning of the downloading process. Also, you can download only one file each time. To get rid of these limitations, you need to purchase a license. |
