[CompSci87]

I don't think this is something Pac-12 is doing to defeat capture. (I only can and only try to capture the free streams.) Just something odd about the way the stream looks with the commercial inserted in front. I'll figure it out if I am able to give it enough time. I'm a computer professional, but video streaming is a new area to me.

I think screen capture would work for me (I've tried it briefly), but capturing directly is theoretically best to keep the original resolution and frame rate. The video looks great on my captures -- and the audio too when it's there.

Please keep us updated on your progress.

I studied some more documentation and did some experiments, and I've learned more. I don't have a confirmed way yet of making sure that audio doesn't drop out after the inserted commercial, but I have a couple of possible workarounds that look promising. It's hard to debug this issue because it only occurs on active livestreams where Pac-12 chooses to insert a commercial, and they don't always insert one. So I can only experiment during livestreams, and sometimes not even then. While I was experimenting today, I managed to capture almost all of the Utah match. It has sound, but it seems like that's because I got lucky and Pac-12 didn't insert the commercial.

Edit: After thinking I'd only captured most of the match, I discovered I could actually reach back in time and download the early part of the stream that I had missed. So  I've fixed my copy to be complete and am re-uploading to YouTube.

It will be here when YouTube is finished processing it. As usual, a lo-res version will appear first, so if you get that, wait for the hi-res version.

https://youtu.be/idyzJdLiGAo

Please fill us amateurs in on how you did this.  Willing to move this discussion somewhere else.  I have many Wordpress blogs and would happily install BB plugins to set this up.

Right now it's complicated and messy for a couple of reasons. You're right that this thread isn't the best place to discuss it.

I've started a thread in Private Discussion: https://thecardboard.org/board/forumdisplay.php?fid=7 -- for what it's worth.

[CompSci87]

I don't think this is something Pac-12 is doing to defeat capture. (I only can and only try to capture the free streams.) Just something odd about the way the stream looks with the commercial inserted in front. I'll figure it out if I am able to give it enough time. I'm a computer professional, but video streaming is a new area to me.

I think screen capture would work for me (I've tried it briefly), but capturing directly is theoretically best to keep the original resolution and frame rate. The video looks great on my captures -- and the audio too when it's there.

Please keep us updated on your progress.

I studied some more documentation and did some experiments, and I've learned more. I don't have a confirmed way yet of making sure that audio doesn't drop out after the inserted commercial, but I have a couple of possible workarounds that look promising. It's hard to debug this issue because it only occurs on active livestreams where Pac-12 chooses to insert a commercial, and they don't always insert one. So I can only experiment during livestreams, and sometimes not even then. While I was experimenting today, I managed to capture almost all of the Utah match. It has sound, but it seems like that's because I got lucky and Pac-12 didn't insert the commercial.

Edit: After thinking I'd only captured most of the match, I discovered I could actually reach back in time and download the early part of the stream that I had missed. So  I've fixed my copy to be complete and am re-uploading to YouTube.

It will be here when YouTube is finished processing it. As usual, a lo-res version will appear first, so if you get that, wait for the hi-res version.

https://youtu.be/idyzJdLiGAo

Please fill us amateurs in on how you did this.  Willing to move this discussion somewhere else.  I have many Wordpress blogs and would happily install BB plugins to set this up.

Right now it's complicated and messy for a couple of reasons. You're right that this thread isn't the best place to discuss it.

I've started a thread in Private Discussion: https://thecardboard.org/board/forumdisplay.php?fid=7 -- for what it's worth.