Record only played portions of video. wmrecorder proxy mode

[jvalt]

Originally intended for the WM Recorder support people, but I thought this forum would have a more diverse audience that may recommend another piece of software, if appropriate.

Note: I own all the pc's in question, so I can alter settings at will. But I want the process to be invisible to the user...

Trying to monitor video usage on a remote PC. I want to capture only the bits of videos that are actually watched, so I am using PRO mode in WM Recorder on the capturing PC.

On the remote pc on the LAN, I have configured wmp to use a proxy: ip.add.re.ss:7771, etc., as appropriate for each protocol (rstp and http in this case).

When that PC accesses a video file, wm recorder will capture it just fine... at first. Then the video will freeze up. Also once you hit the stop button or try to close the browser window containing the video, the entire browser will freeze temporarily. It looks like the embedded wmp is waiting for a response from wm recorder.

Subsequently, further attempts to play videos result in either frozen videos, buffering that only gets up to a percentage and then freezes, etc. Basically it kills the pc's ability to view streaming media.

Is there a way to speed this up? Or is there something wrong with the way I am approaching this? I have searched extensively for ways to capture / sniff streaming media packets and reassemble them into files. Unfortunately, even PIAFCTM won't handle streams - only downloaded videos.


Thanks in advance!