(02-13-2021, 10:54 AM)81alum Wrote:(02-13-2021, 07:58 AM)petersalas Wrote: If someone is able to record the live stream and posts in on YouTube, please post so I can watch it after my zoom meeting today. I’m gonna see if I can pause the stream, but I’m not sure that will be possible. Hoping for a big win both today and Monday!
That is a great idea for these livestream games whenever they occur. I tried to use a screen recorder to record one of these earlier this year, and it crashed while I was away since the game was too long for it. If anyone finds a good onscreen recorder that can be used for this purpose for PC, please let us know what it is.
I suspect that if the predictions of the demise or restructuring of the Pac 12 networks that some have made comes true that we will need to be doing this a lot.
I've added support for pac12.com to youtube-dl (see http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ for information), but it will take a while for my change to be accepted into the official release. I've temporarily put a build of my version up for download at https://tim-mann.org/tmp/youtube-dl.
youtube-dl works on any system that has Python -- either Python 2 or Python 3 is okay. If you don't have Python already, you can download it for Mac OS, Windows, Linux, or some other OSes, at https://www.python.org/downloads/.
To capture a video, just copy the URL of the page it is on from your web browser and use this command line:
python youtube-dl https://pac-12/com/...
For the upcoming WBB game at OSU, the URL should be https://pac-12.com/live/oregon-state-university. If there is no event currently in progress on a live stream page, you will get an error message, probably "HTTP error 403 Forbidden". Wait for the stream to start and try again, and/or recheck whether you have the right URL. You can find more Pac-12 live stream links at https://pac-12.com/sports/schedule/network/live-stream/.
youtube-dl prints a ton of cryptic messages while it's working. Don't let that bother you. It should stop at the end of the game when the stream stops. If you kill youtube-dl before the end, it may leave you with a file whose name ends in ".mp4.part" instead of ".mp4", but when I tried it (at least on Linux with killing via Ctrl+C), the file is valid and can be played, but should be renamed to remove the ".part".
This youtube-dl build can also download any of the free on-demand videos on pac-12.com (let me know if one doesn't work), but it can't download the streams that require a TV provider login.
[BTW, you may not have to type "python" at the start of that command, especially if you have Linux or Mac OS. You can just make youtube-dl executable and run it, and it will start python automatically.]