Ripping CBCsports stream

December 8, 2007 10:13 AM

Is there an easy Mac OS X way to rip a video (plus audio) stream of a hockey game tonight?

I would like to "record" the stream of Pittsburgh vs. Vancouver off of cbcsports.ca tonight and watch it on my Powerbook (Power PC 10.4.11) on my flight tomorrow.
Any ideas how to rip this stream? I've looked around, can't find a simple way to do it.

Alternately I have a Slingbox, so if there was a way to record my feed on that I could do that too. But there doesn't seem to be a way on the Mac side of things.

(is this file if I do manage to do it going to be so large this is a silly idea?)

posted by miles1972 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

This article was a big help to me earlier this week, when I wanted to, um, record the Star Wars Xmas Special from Google video .

I couldn't get any of the Firefox extensions to work, but KeepVid worked just fine and dandy. The resulting file was a .flv, which I converted to .mp4 using iSquint (from the Cnet article) and voila! a Quicktime-readable file.

(This was on a Macbook Pro, but it shouldn't work any differently on a Powerbook)
posted by DiscourseMarker at 10:58 AM on December 8, 2007

VLC worked wonders for me if you can handle the configuration. I ran it on my Macbook (2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM) no problem. The hour-long file was around 150 MB, and you have your choice of quality if you want it small.
posted by dondiego87 at 1:21 PM on December 8, 2007

Whoops, I just realized that was the tutorial for sending out a stream, not capturing one. Just go to File --> Streaming/Exporting Wizard and select Transcode/Save to file, and take it from there.
posted by dondiego87 at 1:26 PM on December 8, 2007

I'm a Mac Slingbox user as well, and I've found that the only real way to save Slingbox streams is to use a screencapture program, such as the excellent and easy-to-use iShowU (the screencap utility of choice among most Mac based screencasters, currently)
posted by melorama at 7:18 PM on December 8, 2007