Overview of XStream Xtra

This article gives an overview about the main user interface of XStream Xtra.

XStream Xtra Radio

  1. XStream Xtra is organized in views. Switch views to carry out individual tasks.
  2. Each view provides information for and control over specific tasks. You can e.g. start or stop recording here. Read more ...
  3. In this area you find the player controls as well as information about the currently played mediafile, radio station, music TV channel or podcast. Here, you can edit or add tags. Read more ...
  4. All recorded files appear here. Here, you can listen to and watch your media files, create playlists, export media files or edit your songs. Read more ...
  5. Activate a conversion profile to set an output format for your recordings, according to your playback device. With a conversion profile activated, all recordings will be converted to the selected output format, automatically.
    Note: If you want to edit the tags of your songs, select a conversion profile that converts music files into MP3 files.
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  6. The status line shows how many files are currently recorded and converted. Read more ...
  7. Select a standard storage for your recordings. XStream Xtra will save all your recordings on this device. Read more ...
Note: You wonder what a paticular symbol means? This table explains the meaning of symbols used by XStream Xtra: Symbols used by XStream Xtra.
Figure 1. Main user interface of XStream Xtra. The interface of your installed version might differ in details, but the basic structure is the same.

 

XStream Xtra Streaming Audio and Video

Videos & movies in the format your devices requires!

The RTMP-E flash file format used frequently by today's large video portals is not supported by most MP4 players and mobile phones. With XStream Xtra software, you can automatically convert FLV and almost any other Web video format into the format your player requires. Support for numerous standard formats for PC, Notebook, Netbook, Ultrabook, Tablet, XBox 360, PS3, Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod or smartphone – for example WMV, MP4, MPEG4, 3GP and AVI – is included.

 

  1. Select Save Video to record streaming video from the net. 
  2. Activate video recording..
  3. In this area you find the player controls as well as information about the currently played videos. Here, you can edit or add tags. Read more ...
  4. All recorded video files appear here. Here, you can listen to and watch your media files, create playlists, export media files or edit your songs. Read more ...
  5. Activate a conversion profile to set an output format for your recordings, according to your playback device. With a conversion profile activated, all recordings will be converted to the selected output format, automatically.
    Read more ...
  6. The status line shows how many video files are currently recorded and converted. Read more ...
  7. Select a standard storage for your video recordings. XStream Xtra will save all your recordings on this device. Read more ...

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