Video downloads - can anyone meet the challenge!

[nick]

How on earth do I download a streaming video in its entirety and save it on my hard drive. Is it possible? I figured out how to do it with QuickTime files but I can't for the life of me work out how to do it with Windows Media Player stuff. I couldn't care less about Real(ly bad) Player.

So can any of you guys tell me how to achieve this seemingly impossible task?

Nick

[Null Actor]

As far as I know, you can't. The programs are made to NOT ever have the entire file on your harddrive, or even save it.

If you register realplayer, I believe it gives you the ability to save the streams, but not the windows stuff.

I am moving this thread to internet browsers and applications.

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[-Memnoch-]

Certain files seem to get placed in the c:\windows\temp folder.

I noticed that I couldn't save files from the saturday night live site thru windows media player. So I deleted all the files in the temp folder, then went back to the site and viewed the clip. after the clip finished I went back to the temp folder and bingo there it was. But this dosn't work for all files. Wish it did. some of the films on Atomfilms.com are great.

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[Canis Lupus]

Hmm, there's a way to save the actual Real Media file, but it works best if you have a download manager like go!zilla or getright.

Streaming Real Media files are usually saved as .RAM .. this is basically just a text file containing the path to the actual Real Media File itself. What you can do is save that .RAM file to your hard drive (it's usually just 1K in size), and then open it using notepad or wordpad. You will immediately see the path to the "real" Real Media file on that server.

You can then open your download manager and type (or paste) that URL to it. If the streaming file is being accessed using the HTTP protocol, you'll be able to save it on your hard drive. However, I don't know if it'll work on files that are stored on a Real Media Server. But there is one way to find out http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/smile.gif

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