Is there any way to save a movie trailer?

[psy44]

sorry if this is the wrong forum...
I have 56k and it took me about 30 min to download the trailer to the 2 fast 2 furious movie, I noticed if I try to watch it in a new window, I have to redownload it, so is there any way I can save it? BTW it's a quicktime trailer from apple.com...

 

[Shmorq]

If you're using Internet Explorer, you can right click on the link to the movie and select "save link as". If that doesn't work, you can pause the movie, go into your temporary internet files directory, and copy the *.mov file to another directory. I've done this plenty of times with Flash files and stuff like that.

If those 2 things don't work, I wouldn't know how to do it off hand. Good luck.

-Shmorq

 

[Nothinman]

What I usually do is this:

1) view source of the page holding the movie
2) find the movie filename (usually a really long path hosted by akamai)
3) download that file, it'll be real small
4) open that file and find the path to the real movie
5) download the real movie

There is a naming convention, so after you figure it out you can skip parts 3-4 but I can't remember it right now.

Since I'm on Linux I use Galeon for parts 1-2 and wget to do the real downloading.

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: psy44
sorry if this is the wrong forum...
I have 56k and it took me about 30 min to download the trailer to the 2 fast 2 furious movie, I noticed if I try to watch it in a new window, I have to redownload it, so is there any way I can save it? BTW it's a quicktime trailer from apple.com...

I'm not sure why you'd want to save THAT particular trailer 😉, but there is an option in Quicktime to save movies to the disk.

 

[Bacinator]

Or sometimes, you can find your temporary internet files directory, and it'll be saved in there.

 

[eklass]

Originally posted by: Trevelyan

Originally posted by: psy44 sorry if this is the wrong forum... I have 56k and it took me about 30 min to download the trailer to the 2 fast 2 furious movie, I noticed if I try to watch it in a new window, I have to redownload it, so is there any way I can save it? BTW it's a quicktime trailer from apple.com...

I'm not sure why you'd want to save THAT particular trailer 😉, but there is an option in Quicktime to save movies to the disk.

not always. why they disable that option sometimes, i don't know. "let's WASTE bandwidth"

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: Trevelyan

Originally posted by: psy44
sorry if this is the wrong forum...
I have 56k and it took me about 30 min to download the trailer to the 2 fast 2 furious movie, I noticed if I try to watch it in a new window, I have to redownload it, so is there any way I can save it? BTW it's a quicktime trailer from apple.com...

I'm not sure why you'd want to save THAT particular trailer 😉, but there is an option in Quicktime to save movies to the disk.

It works but you usually have to have quicktime pro for that option to show up.

 

[bentwookie]

c:>documents and settings>(your user name folder)>local settings>temp internet files

sort by size it will be the biggest item most likely right click copy and paste into another folder

and rightclick save is only for qtpro.