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[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by illuminated

Very good, didnt think of JDownloader
I tried five pages and it grabbed the images i wanted.

But i am not sure how to use the command you wrote.
I put that in a BATCH file?
And save it like pages.bat?

Where does it save that output?

What I gave you there is "pseudo code" -- you could write something that does that in pretty much anything, a spreadsheet macro would do it, if you like, or any programming language.
If you want a simple recipe, I use "Quitebasic" for this kind of thing -- its a free website with a very stripped down version of Basic, all through a web interface (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link it here, but if you google "quitebasic", you'll find it). This is the most basic of "For -Next" loops; there are a million other way to do it, but this is easy and cross platform.

If you're there, enter exactly this code for your example,
hXXp://somesite.com/page/150000

10 CLS
20 for i= 1 to 150000 
30 print "http://somesite.com/page/";i
40 next i

[change 150000 to whatever number of pages you want to generate]

Hit the "Run" Button (upper left, right facing triangle, looks like a "play" button on a DVR). You can modify this code to match patterns, just note that you need to close quotes in a print statement, and use a semicolon to add the number. This is a really, really old fashioned Basic interpreter, requires the line numbers on the left, its kinda nostalgic . . .

The output will be on the right, just copy and paste into JDownloader.

Attached screenshot may help

[Phr3d]

Well, this seems like an active topic, so I'll try my n00b question here:

I have a year's subscription to a site many here are familiar with, and their 'player' is just painfully poor, you must use a mouse to pause the video, for instance.

So I would -like- to simply capture them so I can use MPC64 and jump along to the good parts, not to mention Pause easily, should something else require my attention for a few moments.

I am famously google-challenged, so I am undoubtedly posing the wrong search terms, therefore I have come up empty, but for 1642 versions of YouBoob capturing software.

Appreciate all instruction and impressions of software that you have used to capture streaming content. Personally, I would like to get the movies at Maximum Quality / PQ as space is never a concern here. I use MPC's forward/back frame advance a Lot, so Any compression-artifacts tend to make me crang-kee, lol
(I used PlayOn to capture my 'zon stuff -- at Max Quality, it Wasn't, lol -- not to mention I need to find the patch to allow my Win7 (i5,iGPU) computer to play 1080 stream content, sigh).

Thanks for your Help! I assure future benefits, hehe..

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Phr3d

Well, this seems like an active topic, so I'll try my n00b question here:

I have a year's subscription to a site many here are familiar with, and their 'player' is just painfully poor, you must use a mouse to pause the video, for instance.

So I would -like- to simply capture them so I can use MPC64 and jump along to the good parts, not to mention Pause easily, should something else require my attention for a few moments.

Depends on just what the site is.

Some sites can be downloaded with Jdownloader. But if you're talking about well known services, you're going to have to capture the stream with a hardware solution. The way most folks do that is with an HDMI splitter and a device like a Happague PVR 60, you need a hardware solution for adequate framerates.

Basically the trick is this: streaming services can be played by your computer to the television, via an HDMI cable . . . essentially using the television as an external monitor. The Happague device will record an unencrypted HDMI-in signal, but not the encrypted ones.

How to get rid of the encryption?

Some of the HDMI splitters (which take an HDMI in signal and split to two HDMI out outputs) also strip out the encryption. So your setup goes Computer---> splitter ----> Happague PVR.
This will give you the best quality capture of otherwise impossible to capture streams.

[Phr3d]

Yowsa, I feel Much more stupid now.. The PVR 60 is getting kinda' poor reviews on 'zon, but guessing they are from people as talented as me, and No mention of transferring DVR, so just serious game/twitch users? no clue, but angry people..

Can you expand on the splitter? The streaming-site in question is posted here often, if that narrows it down, do you think I need to go through all of this? i.e., 200 Mbs ISP in to computer -- to HDMI splitter -- to HPR 60 -- BACK to computer? Sorry if I sound dumb.
WILL all of this bring 'zon 1080p for me to 'record'? Impossible to frame-advance/back in 'zon's 'player' as well. PlayOn -software- solution/compression-on-fly sux, is That why the HPR 60?
What method does HPR 60 use to record 'zon/VS, and then save to SSD?

Elgato is OUT due to Win10 (shudder, win10-free victim, me), right?

No relation to Deep@Sea, right? (lol, Had ta' ask.. mighta' rec'd the handle you're responding to)

Thanks for the intro! (and sorry if this is TOOoo many questions in channel, lol.. I sure don't wanna make ya' sorry that you attempted to answer)

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Phr3d

Yowsa, I feel Much more stupid now.. The PVR 60 is getting kinda' poor reviews on 'zon, but guessing they are from people as talented as me, and No mention of transferring DVR, so just serious game/twitch users? no clue, but angry people..

Can you expand on the splitter?

Google the words HDCP and splitter-- you'll get to useful info about this.

Briefly:

PVR 60 is the older device, I think the current is the PVR 2 HD; and yes its intended for recording output for things like Twitch-- eg high framerate capture. You can check forums for specific recommendations. The Elgato you mention appears to work with a USB-in, rather than an HDMI-in; that won't work for this.

The PVRs are designed to record unencrypted content, like game output, definitely not sold to record protected content-- that wouldn't be OK. So if you ask them "what's it for" -- its "for" recording your games, not streams.

Here's the issue: Major streaming services have encryption, eg you can't just "download the stream". But they _can_ go through the the HDMI port to display on your television. A game will send this data out, unencrypted-- just plug a cable from the HDMI out port on your computer to the HDMI in port on the PVR, and it will record. This is how most of the Twitch vidz you see are made.

However, if you try to just record from the HDMI-out to the PVR, in many cases you'll find you get nothing, because most streams from services are encrypted with HDCP ("High bandwidth Digital Content Protection"). A stream which has this encoding can't be recorded by the PVR, though it can be played through your television, if it has an HDMI-in port (because televisions with HDMI have HDCP decryption chips).

As it happens, for some reason -- I don't know why-- it turns out that an HDMI splitter _may_ remove the HDCP protection from its output (I don't know why they're designed this way, and its not all of them. It may be intentional or some engineering artifact).

So HDCP prevents HDMI streams from being recorded. Sometimes splitters remove HDCP. A recorder such as Happague PVR2 (I think that's the current version) can record a stream, so long as it doesn't have HDCP.

If you look on shopping services in the comments sections about various hardware you'll see users discussing just which splitter/recorder combinations they might be using. You'll notice that if you're looking at a listing for the PVR 2, at the bottom of the page "Customers who bought this item also bought" there will likely be splitter or two . . . in the comments on that, you'll get an indication of what might work.

Bear in mind that no one _guarantees_ that this will work . . . its a bit of a Rube Goldberg arrangement, very much dependent on particular bios versions. Look for recent comments from other shoppers

Don't know "Deep@Sea" . . . not me, anyway.

Note: if you find a combination that works, it would also record Blu-Ray, anything that can be played on an HDMI out to your television or monitor.

[masteratarms]

Looking for an image grabber program. I find http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=157
&
http://www.hotflick.net/u/g/?q=198881.4lv6vXpyTV
are not being pulled by IIID, save images extention in firefox or jdownloader. Or is it a case of sending a report to the author of the programs to see if they can update it?

Actually before I even hit post I checked IIID after I downloaded latest version and updated plugins with hotflick and I can download.

Its just turboimagehost I have no solution except manual.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by masteratarms

Looking for an image grabber program.

If you're on Windows, Palemoon Browser + Imagehost Grabber plugin.

[masteratarms]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

If you're on Windows, Palemoon Browser + Imagehost Grabber plugin.

I just installed it and added the extension but while trying to copy the link I selected the entire text on the page and jdownloader started collecting the links. I will have it as a backup tool thx.

[Jism Jim]

Originally Posted by masteratarms

I just installed it and added the extension but while trying to copy the link

If you're using Firefox, make it easy on yourself and install the Openwith extension. Then use that extension to open a link with Palemoon and voila!

that's how I do it.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by masteratarms

I just installed it and added the extension but while trying to copy the link I selected the entire text on the page and jdownloader started collecting the links. I will have it as a backup tool thx.

Jdownloader will do some imagehosts, but IHG does many more. If JD will do your particular host, then that's great . . .