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Originally Posted by kotrab
1. How can I tell whether I'm using a "single thread" if I'm capturing streaming media? Does this mean the same thing as only having one stream capture going on at the same time?
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Download managers allow you to set up how many threads to use when downloading a particular stream. As for stream recorders, try not to use turbo like modes.
You should download one stream from a particular web-site at a time and download this stream using one thread only. And it is safer to capture packets from a streaming media player, than to download the stream.
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Originally Posted by kotrab
I'm not sure what a "user-agent" is.
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A user-agent is used to identify software that accesses online content. Web-browsers, download managers, streaming media players, ... have their own user agents (or they pretend to be Internet Explorer, for example).
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Originally Posted by kotrab
The site I'm talking about has a video "screen" on the web pages themselves, and the videos play right on the page. (The format seems to be .flv.) Is this what you mean by the media streaming through the HTTP protocol? If so, how do I use one of the user agents you suggested, and how do I decide which one I need?
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Flash video .FLV files can be streamed via HTTP, RTMP and RTMPE protocols. I don't remember any FLV streams that required a user agent to be changed.
HTTP streams can be copied from the cache of your web-browser.
For capturing HTTP and RTMP streams you can use software mentioned above.
rtmpsuck is the only program I know that can capture RTMPE streams.