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I'm working from home, so I blocked out that time as busy on my calendar. There are plenty of other hours in the day for me to be online and writing code.

Can anyone recommend freeware for recording a livestream in Windows?  I am chairing a committee meeting from 2-4 that day.  Rather difficult for me to get out of it, and the timing could not be worse ;(

I can't, as I run Linux on all my machines. I did a test with SimpleScreenRecorder yesterday and it seems to work well. It's Linux only, though. I also tried youtube-dl and that one doesn't work with Pac-12.com streams.

I'm sure there must be choices for Windows.

For those on Mac, I recorded a 1.3 hour live stream a couple of days ago. (Command-shift-5) but I must need to set up the audio correctly as there is no audio.   It wound up as an 8GB .MOV.   Just a reminder to check try your method out before game time.

If it had worked right, I would have used VLC (or its base program ffmpeg) to transcode it to something smaller in size.

You will often find video streams that try to prevent you from getting a copy.  As always, obey the copyright laws.  I am not a lawyer, but I would likely try to record pretty much anything so I could time shift it for my own viewing.

VLC is free & available & open source and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.  It has been actively developed since 2001.  It has a way (perhaps not enabled at first) to record network streams.  It has more controls than many people might wish, but I view those as options.  Definitely play with it first to know how to do what you want.

2 or 3 years ago, I looked around to find a program to transcode some video from one format to another.  There were a lot of free video recording/manipulation programs, but when you dig down into them, you will either be unable to find the company behind them or will find it to be a Chinese company.  Thank you, but absolutely not!  (Think you got a deal on a particular wifi router at Walmart, Amazon, E-Bay?  Think again)

Another alternative would be Video Download Helper, an add-on for the Firefox browser.  Around since 2007, by being in the browser, it can avoid some of the things done to block you from recording a video stream.

Last year, I signed up with SLING to watch Stanford WBB.  They offer (add-on cost) a way to schedule the recording of shows so you can watch them later.  The problem is that there is a limited number of hours that you can save, and there is no way to see a program you forgot to record (even if you know another SLING subscriber that has it).   I have not tried to record to my own storage from SLING.

With TiVo, there has been a way to download your recorded videos.   I don't know if it still works.

[M T]

I'm working from home, so I blocked out that time as busy on my calendar. There are plenty of other hours in the day for me to be online and writing code.

Can anyone recommend freeware for recording a livestream in Windows?  I am chairing a committee meeting from 2-4 that day.  Rather difficult for me to get out of it, and the timing could not be worse ;(

I can't, as I run Linux on all my machines. I did a test with SimpleScreenRecorder yesterday and it seems to work well. It's Linux only, though. I also tried youtube-dl and that one doesn't work with Pac-12.com streams.

I'm sure there must be choices for Windows.

For those on Mac, I recorded a 1.3 hour live stream a couple of days ago. (Command-shift-5) but I must need to set up the audio correctly as there is no audio.   It wound up as an 8GB .MOV.   Just a reminder to check try your method out before game time.

If it had worked right, I would have used VLC (or its base program ffmpeg) to transcode it to something smaller in size.

You will often find video streams that try to prevent you from getting a copy.  As always, obey the copyright laws.  I am not a lawyer, but I would likely try to record pretty much anything so I could time shift it for my own viewing.

VLC is free & available & open source and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.  It has been actively developed since 2001.  It has a way (perhaps not enabled at first) to record network streams.  It has more controls than many people might wish, but I view those as options.  Definitely play with it first to know how to do what you want.

2 or 3 years ago, I looked around to find a program to transcode some video from one format to another.  There were a lot of free video recording/manipulation programs, but when you dig down into them, you will either be unable to find the company behind them or will find it to be a Chinese company.  Thank you, but absolutely not!  (Think you got a deal on a particular wifi router at Walmart, Amazon, E-Bay?  Think again)

Another alternative would be Video Download Helper, an add-on for the Firefox browser.  Around since 2007, by being in the browser, it can avoid some of the things done to block you from recording a video stream.

Last year, I signed up with SLING to watch Stanford WBB.  They offer (add-on cost) a way to schedule the recording of shows so you can watch them later.  The problem is that there is a limited number of hours that you can save, and there is no way to see a program you forgot to record (even if you know another SLING subscriber that has it).   I have not tried to record to my own storage from SLING.

With TiVo, there has been a way to download your recorded videos.   I don't know if it still works.