Can I record a live stream while watching it?

example-video.com / watchVGrab

LIVEREC

12:34 recordedstop → MP4

three pathspicked automatically

MP4live 2026-09-15.mp4 · 12 min 34 s

Three paths, chosen automatically

Live pages differ from site to site, so VGrab has three ways in and picks the one that works — nothing for you to judge. One: the player is fetching a segmented stream, so the segments are fetched by the list from the earliest one still available until you stop. Two: the player gives no address and decodes inside the page, so the data it feeds the decoder is captured. Three: nothing can be captured, so what the player is showing and playing is recorded.

How to use it, two steps

1. Open the live page and press play; click the VGrab icon, then Save (on a live page that means Start recording).
2. Click Stop recording when you are done; a few seconds later you have an MP4.

Questions

Will a long recording blow up? No. Data is written to disk as it is recorded and a new file is started past 1 GB; if the disk is nearly full it stops early and tells you.

What if the quality changes mid-way? Recording continues without a cut.

Can it record from the start of the stream? On the segmented-stream path it starts from the earliest segment the server still has, usually a few minutes back; the other two paths can only start from the moment you clicked.