if you’re doing min(a, b) wouldn’t your target then be 1?

ebay has cheap intel gigabit nics which i havent had issues with

I made it myself, i’ll see if i can dig it out. Are you on linux or windows?

I used to run a script that recorded the stream while it was live using Streamlink and then i had the vod locally saved. Wont get you access to vods of past streams but the simplest solution for fresh streams.