I was trialing replay media catcher to see if it would record a rtmp video stream, but it failed to find the stream - i further tried to input the url directly, but would get error messages
i did find that wm recorder is fully able to easily find and record the stream (which is a h264 file in a flash (flv) platform container) - unfortunately the resulting flv file is not seekable (ie., non-linear seek to end) - therefore if i recorded a long file i would have to play back the entire file to get to a certain point, vs non-linearly scrolling to the point i wanted to watch
i am presuming this may be a result of wm recorder not being a "native" flv recorder (at least, not as replay media catcher is advertised to be), so the solution MIGHT be to get RMC to be able to find and record the stream - if not, any other suggestions are very welcome
i did find that if it use wm recorder to record the file, and i also put it into preview mode, it will launch an flv player window - this window can them be "captured" by either RVC or presumably wm capture, and the resulting file is fully seekable, but this multi-step process does not seem to be as efficient as recording a fully seekable flv in the first place, if that is possible with any applian products
thanks much for any insights!
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