We were recently made aware of a piece of Mac audio/video recording software named Jaksta. Jaksta makes it possible to record both streaming video and audio and play it any where you like. Not being huge power users for using audio/video on our Macs, we decided to give Jaksta a whirl anyway, and see how it did.
On the official Jaksta website is the following:
Jaksta for Mac is the easiest, most advanced streaming media recording technology ever created. Once monitoring, Jaksta will save video and audio files from thousands of web sites as they play on your Mac. These files can be transferred to other devices like your iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or burned to a CD or DVD disc, or used in other applications like iMovie.
The first thing we tried was to see how compatible the software was with Pandora. While we may not be huge video power users, we generally always have Pandora playing on our machines. Unfortunately, we experienced some issues with Jaksta when we started monitoring Pandora. It did record the songs, but didn’t record their names – while this isn’t too bad, if you’re using this software for a large amount of audio on Pandora, renaming those files is going to become pretty tiresome.
We then tried to see how Jaksta coped with YouTube – and we were impressed. Not only did it record the video we were watching, but it also correctly named the file and recorded it to a .mov file.
Picking a site at random, we wanted to see how it did with audio files displayed within content. The BBC often has great video files as well as content, so we played video files when looking through out the BBC’s website. Again, the video was recorded, named correctly and saved as a .mov file.
For more information on Jaksta and to find out further information on its capabilities, read the user guide. You can order Jaksta for Mac for $49.95. If you’re an audio/video aficionado, it’s well worth the money.
