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- Paste the Chaturbate live URL into the Chaturbate URL field.
- Click Start.
- A row appears in Ongoing recordings with the room name, a progress bar (indeterminate while recording — a live's total duration isn't known in advance), and a Stop button.
To stop a specific recording, click its Stop button. To stop everything at once, use Stop all.
Just paste a new URL and click Start again: each recording runs in
its own yt-dlp process, with no need to open multiple instances of the
app. The same room can't be recorded twice at the same time (an info
message appears if you try), but it can be recorded again at a later
time.
Before starting a recording, in advanced mode:
- Source quality: best available quality (recommended), medium quality (720p max), or minimum (saves space).
- Output codec: copy without re-encoding (recommended, fast — the captured file is never modified), or H.264/H.265 re-encoding in the background once the recording finishes (produces an extra file, the original stays intact).
- Output format: MP4, MKV (more resilient to an abrupt stop — an MP4 interrupted mid-recording can be harder to repair), or MOV.
If enabled (see Configuration), a recording that stops unexpectedly (not through a manual stop) restarts automatically after a short delay, up to a limited number of attempts. The row's button turns into "Cancel" while a reconnection is scheduled.
- + Favorite: adds the URL currently in the URL field to the favorites list.
- In the Favorites panel (advanced mode): Load puts the selected URL back into the URL field (or double-click the entry directly); Remove favorite removes it from the list.
The History panel (advanced mode) lists the 50 most recent video
files in the save folder, with size, duration (if ffprobe.exe is
present, see Installation), and date. Refresh
re-scans the folder; Open folder opens Windows Explorer on the
selected file (or on the capture folder if nothing is selected).
The button at the top of the window toggles between:
- Simple mode: just the URL field, Start/Stop all, and the list of ongoing recordings — the essentials for quick use.
- Advanced mode: everything else (quality/codec/format, history, favorites, donate, logs, guide, updates, bug report).
The choice is remembered between launches.
Closing the main window (the X) hides it in the notification area instead of quitting the app — an ongoing recording keeps running in the background. Right-click the icon in the notification area:
- Open — brings the window back.
- Settings — brings the window back and opens the Settings window directly (see Configuration).
- Close — actually quits the app (stops all ongoing recordings).
Double-clicking the icon = Open.
A notification (Windows notification area) appears when a recording finishes (successfully or with an error) and when a favorite is added.
Maximum duration menu (advanced mode), to be picked before starting: 15 or 30 minutes, 1, 2, 4 or 8 hours, or Unlimited (the default). The recording then stops on its own, and the remaining time is shown on its row. The setting applies per recording, like quality or format.
An automatic reconnection does not push the deadline back: 2 hours means 2 hours of elapsed time, not 2 hours per attempt. A recording stopped by the timer is not restarted by automatic reconnection.
Since v1.21.0, the app checks on its own for a new version every hour, without asking you anything. When it finds one, a notification appears in the notification area: click it to start the installation. Each version is announced only once — the notification won't come back every hour if you don't install it right away.
Nothing ever interrupts an ongoing recording: the check doesn't steal focus, and if recordings are running when you accept the installation, the app warns you that they will be cut short by the restart before going ahead.
A failed check (offline, network outage) displays nothing at all: it just writes a line to the logs and retries the following hour.
The Check for updates button (advanced mode) is still there to force an immediate check. In both cases the app downloads the variant (standard or portable) matching the one you're running, then restarts itself once the files have been replaced.
To turn the automatic check off: uncheck Automatically check for updates in the Settings window.
See the Configuration page: these settings, along with the save folder, cookies, and proxy, now live in the separate Settings window.