Transcribe long OPENREC.tv archives four-hour streams, read in minutes.
An OPENREC.tv stream or archive transcribes from the copy you saved as the streamer, uploaded here, and a 4-hour stream comes back as Japanese text in about 8 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit, and one 4-hour stream (240 minutes) fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes with 260 left.
Archive to text
Long esports and game streams are full of calls, plans and answers worth having in writing.
Getting a copy
The simplest copy is the one your streaming software kept: OBS and similar tools can record to disk while they stream, often as MKV or MP4 depending on the output settings. If you want the archive itself, check what your OPENREC.tv account offers for your own streams. Use only streams you made or have the rights to. If the archive is long and the game audio loud, a recording with your microphone on its own track gives the cleanest result.
Four hours, one file
A single file can run to 10 hours or 5 GB, so a long session rarely needs splitting. A 4-hour 1080p recording at 6 Mbps is about 10.8 GB (6,000,000 bits a second × 14,400 seconds ÷ 8), so save the audio alone first; at 128 kbps the same four hours is about 230 MB, which fits this page's 500 MB upload box.
A month of streaming
A 4-hour stream is 240 minutes. A weekly 4-hour stream for a month is 960 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 with 1,040 left over. Eight 4-hour streams come to 1,920 minutes, still on the $12 pack, with 80 to spare. Streaming 2 hours every day comes to about 3,600 minutes a month, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000.
Reading a long session
The brief gives the thesis and takeaways of the stream, the chapters mark each match, segment or guest, and the names, numbers and dates said are listed. Commentators and guests are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. Search the chat for a strategy you explained an hour in, then jump to its timestamp. Post the chapters as a list of timestamps under a re-upload, so viewers can skip straight to the match they care about.
Archives without text
Hours of archive are hard to search and easy to forget.
✗ Archive only
Long streams you would have to rewatch to quote.
- Four hours to scrub through
- Strategy talk lost after the match
- Viewer questions never answered twice
- OpenAI's Whisper API rejects files over 25 MB
- Subtitles typed by hand
- No record of what was announced
✓ Archive as text
The whole session, searchable in minutes.
- About 8 minutes for 4 hours
- Chapters per match or segment
- Guests named in the summary
- Announcements in the brief
- SRT and VTT for clips
- 20 minutes free to start
Sample
An OPENREC.tv stream, as it comes back.
Illustrative lines composed for this page; not from a real stream. Timestamps follow a 4-hour session.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
OPENREC.tv archives, answered.
Does pasting an OPENREC.tv link work?
No, OPENREC.tv links are not fetched. Upload your copy of the stream. If you simulcast to YouTube, Twitch or Kick, paste that VOD link instead and skip the download.
How fast is a 4-hour archive?
Around 8 minutes, at about 2 minutes per hour of audio. On /proof/long-files a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds, a little over 17 minutes.
What will a month of archives cost?
Packs are one-time: $6 for 500 minutes, $12 for 2,000 and $24 for 5,000, with no subscription. Four weekly 4-hour streams, 960 minutes, sit on the $12 pack. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit.
My stream ran for 7 hours. Can it go in?
Yes, as one file, because a file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A stream recording over 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account, and before a pack uploads are capped at 2 GB. Past 10 hours, split it into two files.
Is it only for Japanese?
No. The language is detected from 99. A stream in Japanese with English game terms or a switch to English is detected on its main language and the switches are handled.
What happens to my recording?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a stream and its transcript from your Library. WhipScribe has no OPENREC.tv integration; it works on the file afterwards.
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