Downloading streaming media on Acer Aspire One with Linux. I'm going insane!!

Help anyone! I am driving myself mad trying to find some meager way of downloading streaming media in any way I can. I honestly don't care what it saves as or whether it's a good downloader. I don't want to edit, change, or anything else like that. I just want to capture my streaming video and get it on my hard drive.

I have the Acer Aspire One. It uses Linux (Maybe some modified version?) I've tried downloading a million different programs, found the command lines to install them, all to no avail. Do I have bugs maybe? Everything else is working fine. But I cannot get a single program that will just copy my streaming video. Will I have to become a pseudohacker just to learn how to do this?

Any direct links to downloads? I'll try them all. If you don't get a response in a day, just email me gaiaguerrilla@gmail.com and I'll be sure to check it out.

If part of the problem is that they were loaded but I don't know how to use the program, I'd be happy to follow instruction to fix it to copy media and save it in a folder every time I look at streaming media.

Thanks in advance!

Try to record streaming videos with Replay Media Catcher and WM Recorder.

And please post the URL of the web-page where we can find the video you wanna record and have problem with.

You can use streaming video rippers for Linux.

You can also install Windows onto your Acer Aspire One. Or even better try Windows emulators that allow you to launch Windows application from Linux. Some of them will require you to install Windows, others won't.

Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop.