Guide and FAQ to Record Streaming Video

Streaming Video Recorder is the world’s #1 online video recorder that record streaming video to your computer as soon as you start watching. The following guide will help you understand how to use this software:

1: Installing Streaming Video Recorder

2: General Options

3: Record Video

4: Play with Built-in Player

5: Convert Downloaded Videos

6: Advanced Convert Settings

7: Video Editing: Trim and Crop

8: Output Downloaded Video

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* Installing Streaming Video Recorder

Simply download the Streaming Video Recorder installer from: http://www.recordstreamingvideo.net/download-video-recorder and execute it.

* General Options

Click “Options”, you can set up some options for video download and convert.

* Record Video

a. Record streaming videos

When the web video is playing, Streaming Video Recorder grabs it automatically. It keeps on the downloading even if you close your browser while watching. All downloads are saved to your download folder so you can change file names.

b. Record screen video

If the program can’t automatically detect and download your video, you can make use of the screen recording function. Follow below steps to achieve it:

1. Click “Record Screen” icon on the UI.

record screen icon

2. Drag your mouse to create a record area on computer screen then click “OK”. Therefore, it will start recording video off net.

It will guarantee you to record live or protected videos and even local videos successfully.

3. Click “Stop recording” icon on UI or press your preset hotkey on keyboard to stop recording video. Thus the video will be saved as a video file in your specified folder.

Note: If you have several sound devices, you should choose the working one as audio input in Options. Otherwise, the recorded video may has no audio.

* Play with Built-in Player

From the Source list, you can preview the downloaded videos by click “Play” button or double-click the downloaded video.

* Convert Downloaded Videos

Select downloaded videos, and click “Add to Convert”, it will switch to Convert tab to convert videos to any formats with different Profile.

* Advanced Convert Settings

Click Settings to change the specific settings for the video output in conversion.

* Video Editing: Trim and Crop

Click Trim button to shorten the video length by setting new start and end time; click Crop button to adjust the aspect of video size.

* Output Downloaded Video

When every setting is done, click Start button to convert downloaded online videos quickly.

* Streaming Video Recorder FAQs

1: Could not able to access the internet

2: Won’t open after upgrade

3: Black box while capturing AVI Video format

4: Crashes after running Streaming Video Recorder

5: Microphone option is disabled

6: Best Settings when use Screen Recorder

7: How to record YouTube HD videos?

Why my browsers could no longer access the internet?

The Streaming Video Recorder will change the HTTP proxy to monitor all HTTP traffic from Internet to your computer and detect video file then download it.

After you launching Streaming Video Recorder and starting to record video, the program will register itself as the system proxy for Microsoft Windows Internet Services (WinInet), especially, the HTTP layer used by Internet Explorer and other browsers, or many other products like Microsoft Office. You can check that whether Streaming Video Recorder has correctly intercepted requests by checking the Proxy Settings dialog. From the Internet Explorer main menu >Tools > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Setting, and finally click Advanced.

Proxy settings

So if you close the Streaming Video Recorder incorrectly (e.g. Force shutdown, kill the Streaming Video Recorder process, Crash…), many of your software may could not access the internet any more.

In this case, there are two simple ways for you to retrieve internet access, as following:

1. Run the Streaming Video Recorder again, enable the Video Recorder, and then close the program correctly.

2. From the Internet Explorer main menu, click Tools > Internet Options > Connections > click LAN Setting, and uncheck the ‘Use a proxy server for you LAN’ option.

IE settings

Usually, if you close the Streaming Video Recorder correctly, there aren’t any problems of your internet access.

Why Streaming Video Recorder won’t open after upgrade?

If you are using the older version, we recommend you to download the latest full version from our website:

http://www.recordstreamingvideo.net/download-video-recorder After downloading, uninstall the old version and then install the latest version.

Everything is captured correctly, but why some videos (AVI video files) become a black box while capturing

The Streaming Video Recorder couldn’t record the DirectX Output currently. So if you are using Mplayer or VLC, you can change the output driver to Direct3D or OpenGL (gl).

MPlayer Settings

VLC Player Settings

Crashes after running Streaming Video Recorder, it crashes when loading as shown

Crash

This error was caused by incorrectly registering components.

So just reinstall it.

Note: If you are using windows 7 or Vista, please right click on icon of the program then click Run as administrator.

Why the Microphone option is disabled?

Microphone Disabled

1. Make sure that the Microphone is connected and in use.

2. Right click on the sound icon in the Notification Area and select ‘Recording devices’.

3. Set the Microphone to default recording device:

Audio Set

I am trying to capture a video using the record screen feature, but is there a recommended site to help me understand what the setting control and how to determine “best” settings?

We recommend you to use these settings, as shown:

Recording Settings

Note: Higher Video Bit-rate will get a higher video quality but a bigger video size.

How to record YouTube HD videos?

1. Make sure the video recorder is enabled.
enable video record
2. Watch YouTube videos and switch to HD mode.
switch to HD mode

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