How to download video....
Apr. 19th, 2003 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerGrabbing streaming Quicktime files is a pain in the ass. Windows streaming media is significantly easier. Open the source the web page. Look for a file ending in .asf or .asx. Enter the URL into ASFRecorder. Three minutes later it's converted it from a stream into a file.
The major advantages of this are :
No need to go to the site next time you want to watch it
You can lend it to your friends
It doesn't matter what your connection is - you cn still watch the high bandwidth version if you're prepared to wait for the download to finish.
You can sometimes do something similar with quicktime files if you check for a file ending in .MOV in the source and simply download that. However, Apple have gotten smarted about this and are now using a redirect inside the .MOV file that points to the actual file. I haven't worked out a way to spot where that's going to yet. If I do, I'll let you know :->
The major advantages of this are :
No need to go to the site next time you want to watch it
You can lend it to your friends
It doesn't matter what your connection is - you cn still watch the high bandwidth version if you're prepared to wait for the download to finish.
You can sometimes do something similar with quicktime files if you check for a file ending in .MOV in the source and simply download that. However, Apple have gotten smarted about this and are now using a redirect inside the .MOV file that points to the actual file. I haven't worked out a way to spot where that's going to yet. If I do, I'll let you know :->
Grabbing stream video Quicktime or RealPlayer
Date: 2003-11-06 07:06 am (UTC)I think there shoudl be some kind of workaround the problem in the PC that is browsing: somewhere the files are stores "temporarily" while they are played.
More: do you know how to grab RealPlayer streaming video??
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