Recording Google Video

[davephan]

I would like to be able to record Google Video (You Tube) and other video streams. SageTV cannot record streaming Internet videos. Does anyone have any recommendations for recording streaming Internet video for later playback with SageTV?

Dave

[Polypro]

For WMV, I use WMRecorder. Sage v6 has integrated Google video. Google video (.gvi) is just .avi (DivX) and mp3 audio...with some header junk. Search for "convert .gvi"...with Google If you rename xxx.gvi to xxx.divx, it'll play with DivX's player...havn't tried playing them in Sage yet.

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Edit: Download the .gvp 1.56kb file, open with notepad, copy the url, paste into browser, download as a straight .avi file.

[JUC]

But is there anyway to record it directly in sage? So you bring up a goodle video you like and want to record it--just hit record or something like that...or is this already possible?
thanks
Juc

[Polypro]

I don't think so. The easiest way seems to be just download the video...but v5 won't play the .avi that you get by downloading from the url in the .gvp file. MPC and VLC will play it however. v6 may have better luck with MPlayer, but I haven't installed it yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video

"Google Video Files (.gvi), and latterly its .avi files, are modified Audio Video Interleave (.avi) files that have an extra list containing the FourCC "goog" immediately following the header. The video is encoded in DivX4 alongside an MP3 audio stream. DivX video players can render .gvi Google Video Files without format conversion (after changing the extension from .gvi to .avi)"

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