ChromeVideoCapture

Chrome extension to capture <video> tag stream and save it to file or transcoding with FFmpeg

Requisites

• NodeJS server running VideoCaptureServer.js
• FFmpeg

Use

• Start VideoCaptureServer.js with full path of FFmpeg binary as argument. Example:

> nodejs VideoCaptureServer.js /usr/bin/ffmpeg

• Load Chrome extension in developer mode
• Pin the extension icon in the toolbar to lock it and click it to open the popup
• Insert the file output path (.webm to save as file without transcoding or .m3u8 for HLS streaming)
• Open a website containing the video and press Start capture