/jp/ - Otaku Culture

ina's JLPT stream is probably lost forever because no one recorded it live. people seem to get the importance of live recording for pre-announced unarchived streams, but that doesn't help for streams that are retroactively made unarchived. i was just barely able to grab two of mori's japanese study archives before she took those down, just minutes after my downloads finished:

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i do record all of gura's streams live, but i'm only one guy and she's only one out of the five holoENs. i'll eventually have an outage, or make a mistake, or she'll reschedule something and break my recording setup. we clearly don't have enough live recording coverage of holoEN and we will continue to lose things forever until more people make a point of routinely recording every stream while it is live. even if all you can do is 480p, that's a whole lot better than losing it forever. even if you can only retain the past month, or the past week's worth of recordings, that still gives us more time to circulate more copies to more people.

youtube-dl is free and it's not hard to use. a lot of people like streamlink, but i haven't used it so i can't help with the details of that. there are automatic recording tools out there but i haven't tried them because i am working on my own implementation. once i have something fit for release i'll be sure to post it. for now, if you have the chance to record something live, even if it's something you're 99% sure will be archived indefinitely, consider taking the time to record it anyway. you never know when or why one of these will get taken down, and when it does, the only hope for preserving it is if fans have local copies of it.