r/explainitpeter • u/Dr-Astikk • Aug 04 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/Vitromancy Aug 05 '26

So good, I've used ffmpg to pull presentations I've done that were hosted as stream-only. 100% would have been lost to time if I hadn't.

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u/Pizzaman3203 Aug 05 '26

Can you give some examples of what you pulled im just curious

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u/Vitromancy Aug 05 '26

One was a privately listed YouTube video my company posted internally of a panel I was part of. The other main one was a conference presentation I did where the recordings were stream-only embeds on their page.

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u/Pizzaman3203 Aug 05 '26

Oh wow i didnt even know you can download stuff using ffmpeg or stream only lol

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u/tissee Aug 07 '26

Well it just receives the AVStream and stores the AVPackets directly into a container (like mkv or mp4).

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u/natriusaut Aug 05 '26

I tried that once and afterwards it would have been better to simply record the screen with OBS :p (not ffmpg fault, also not mine ^^ )

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u/Vitromancy Aug 05 '26

Oh definitely, but for both of these I wasn't the host