Stream Recorder Chrome Extension Analysis
Video & Image DownloadersStore listing title: Stream Recorder - HLS & m3u8 Video Downloader
Chrome extension ID: iogidnfllpdhagebkblkgbfijkbkjdmm
This extension captures streaming media in HLS format and offers a secondary video capture function for mp4 files. It is designed to run locally within the browser to record live video content.
Overview
Installs
1.0M+
Rating
★ 4.3
2,674 reviews
Languages
55 locales
Includes Deutsch, English, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom)...
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Video & Image Downloaders
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
Stream Recorder positions itself as a tool for saving live and archived HLS/m3u8 streaming media. It emphasizes high-quality output by converting data to mp4 internally without re-encoding, avoiding the need for external servers.
Inferred product pattern
A legacy browser utility that has degraded in functionality due to lack of maintenance against modern web stream structures.
Review-backed pain points
Users report critical failure in media merging, resulting in separate audio/video files, and a persistent bug where the extension creates an infinite, non-stop list of duplicated recordings.
Observed feature gaps
The extension lacks a stable mechanism to handle modern stream updates, fails to suppress duplicated streams as intended, and requires users to manually re-mux audio and video files.
- Content archivists
- Live stream viewers
- Media researchers
- Downloading HLS/m3u8 live streams
- Recording archived web videos
- Converting streaming content to MP4
- Historically highly reliable and efficient
- Effective local conversion to MP4
- High quality output when functional
- Frequent splitting of audio and video streams
- Endless duplication of recording streams
- Performance degradation and memory consumption
- Lack of recent updates and maintenance
- Performance complaints detected
- None reported; the tool appears to be free with no evident paywalls mentioned in reviews.
Support
Multiple users express concern that the product has been abandoned due to a lack of updates, leading to ongoing functionality breakage.
Reliability
Severe reliability issues: splits audio/video, creates endless duplicate stream records, and fails to capture content properly across multiple tabs.
Privacy
None observed.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 1
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 55
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Version: 2.2.9
- Size: 205KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: hlsloader.com
Privacy policy: https://www.hlsloader.com/terms.html