The best stream recorders, downloaders, rippers, etc for Windows 98

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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.