For Windows 9x I find the most useful stream recorder program is -
For recording literally
anything that can play through the PC's soundcard,
Cool Edit Pro v2. Accompanied by
mp3.flt and
mpe.flt and mpeg.dat for encoding to mp3; and
cool_faac.flt for encoding as MP4 Audio (M4A). But it should be used with
Asio4All v2.9.
For Windows 9x I find the most useful stream downloader programs are -
For
RTSP (RealPlayer) streams,
StreamboxVCR Suite 2 for on-demand RealAudio and RealVideo and RAM streams. Works for live streams as well as on-demand streams. I also recommend the useful editor program
MetaEditor.
For
MMS (Windows Media) streams, for on-demand streams,
SDP v2.0.0 (the Streaming Download Project mms downloader).
For stream-ripping live
SHOUTcast audio streams,
Winamp v5.06 with
StationRipper. StreamRipper usually gets the position of track changes wrong if the tracks are cross-faded, with no gap between them; but StationRipper just makes a continuous recording and you get to choose the break points later, in the editing.
For
RTMP (Macromedia Flash) streams,
RTMPDUMP v2.1d (combined with RTMPSRV v2.1d) for on-demand RTMP and RTMPT streams. For extracting MP4 files (or MP3 files) from a .FLV wrapper, use
FFMPEG.
Also for
RTMP on-demand streams,
Get_iPlayer v2.76 if modified as follows -
(a) Firstly, as described at
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/rtmpdump-v2-2d-command-exit-code-1-t6663.html
(b) Secondly, by commenting out its ability to "phone home", to check a site that no longer exists for updates (comment out the 7-line section that hunts for plugin updates, by putting a # mark at the start of each line: to find that section, search the get_iplayer.pl file - using Notepad.exe - for the phrase 'plugins update').
Get_iPlayer is a Perl script (get_iplayer.pl), so you'll need to install
ActivePerl.
This posting is optimised for Windows 98 / 98SE / ME.