Is it possible to save VH1.com videos to your hard drive?

[Soul Reputation]

I'm trying to download some videos from VH1.com, to save to my hard drive, but I'm having no luck.

On the VH1 website they have episodes from many different VH1 television shows. Many of these television shows are 60 minutes in length.

Some people say you should use RealPlayer when downloading a VH1 video. I don't think the people giving out that advice ever tried downloading a VH1.com video with RealPlayer. I tried using RealPlayer but RealPlayer didn't work.

RealPlayer allowed me to download only the first 10 or 20 seconds of a video. That's no good, because the first 10 or 20 seconds of the video is a paid commercial advertisement from a store, a toothpaste company, a soap company, or a credit card company. So all RealPlayer will do is grab the commercial, but not the main video.

I tried many times, maybe ten times in all, using various strategies: At various times I would start the download at the beginning, middle and end of each video, but still no luck, RealPlayer would not download the entire video, it would only save the commercial.

I cannot download a VH1.com video using RealPlayer, I tried many times and failed each and every time. Maybe VH1.com blocks RealPlayer?

RealPlayer never gave me an error message. RealPlayer went through the motion of downloading each video, but it never did download one successfully.

Anyone know of any tools that will get the job done?

 

[aplefka]

Does Camtasia still exist? I haven't had a need to record video from the screen for a while, but if you had something like this it would record both the video and audio of whatever is on your screen after you activate recording until you de-activate it. They may also have something like WMP used to where even when you use screen-recording software, you have to de-select an option that causes it to record black for that portion of the screen.

 

[masteryoda34]

WMRecorder maybe.