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Originally Posted by ChrisJBrady
Recently I downloaded WMR11 from the CNET website. It apparently installed OK. But then when I tried to run it in 'demo' mode it failed completely. Actually no dialogue window appeared and the app. just devolved to an icon on the tool bar. There was nothing in I.E. which said that this was trying to capture an audio stream. The Task Manager reported that the exe was 'Not Responding.' Now I have a top of the range multi-media laptop with MS WXP MCE. I had a ADSL connection open at the time. I have no problem receiving and playing streamed audio and video. Unfortunately I couldn't close WMR11 down, and also because it had 'hung' the OS I had to do a reboot - BUT I could not do this with a Close Down or Restart and I had to turn the laptop upside down and take the battery out. Then because XP had not terminated properly it then took an age to restart. Frankly I've had better luck with junk VB apps. from free magazine CDs.
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WMR is the best and the easiest
media stream recorder. It is proved by hundreds of thousand users all over the world. I've been using it for more than 2 years and haven't seen a better stream recorder.
Please contact WMR support from their web-site and explain your problem. Their support stuff is very very good in my experience and this is the second reason to pay for the software (the first reason is that it is very easy to use and very powerful at the same time).
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Originally Posted by ChrisJBrady
The one streaming app. that I did manage to get working was HiDownload apparently from mainland China or HK. But this didn't come with any 'Help' feature or 'How to' tutorial files. I did eventually get it to capture an audio stream, once I'd copied and pasted a streaming URL into it, but the numerous files generated were given names with loads of '@' signs in and sans instructions I couldn't find any way of 'glueing' them together into a playable file.
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Click "System"->"Online help" and "System"->"FAQ" in the drop-down menu for help. They have better created Help item in the menu
Please also learn about
getting stream URLs from our
stream recording FAQ.
As for @ files you don't have to glue them. HD creates a media file (such as .wma, .wmv, .rm, .mov,...) after it finishes the recording process (or after you stop downloading manually). It may leave @ files for download resuming.
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Originally Posted by ChrisJBrady
Actually both HiDownload and WMR11 installation files were downloaded with no security certificate available. Strange that they should charge money for the real non-demo versions - so presumably they do want people to purchase these - yet the exe's are unprotected by any form of certification or virus-free security guarantee.
The search continues for a professional streaming capture app.
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Both
WMR and
HiDownload are very professional stream recorders (especially WMR). I dunno whether certificates are important or not, but I haven't really seen many of them even though I test lots of software.
You may always download software from official web-site or other respected sources to avoid viruses or other malware.
When downloading software from unknown sources make sure to check your downloads with a reliable antivirus software like
Kaspersky Anti-Virus or Kaspersky Internet Security and update it regularly (Kaspersky Lab provides HOURLY updates).