Program to save web embedded movie file to disk

[Rommie2006]

Hi,


Can anyone direct me to a program that can save "web-embedded" movie files(in particular WMV files) to my harddrive, cos I don't wanna stream the connection, playback is a bit jerky.


Thanks!

 

[elkinm]

hidownlaod works reasonably well for me. I don't have a link so just do a search. You can use the evaluation version. The problem is that it really only works if you look up the source file in the page source code and then use it to download. The auto-download feature cannot download anything you would be able to download with right-click save as.

There is an old PVR program I used a while ago which properly detected and downloaded the streams, will tell you what it is when I get home.

I have watching wmv streams, not being able to fast-forward or rewind and jump to the start every time I switched to full screen or an alternate page. Anybody know of a way to force the old WMP 6.4 IE plugging to work with WMP9 or 10 and allow stream skipping?

Thanks

 

[kamper]

If you know the url of the file, why do you need another program to download it? Just put it into the address bar and let the browser do it for you. So yeah, I'd look up the url in the page source and do that, although that might be a bit tedious if you have to do it alot and the url is hard to find...

 

[elkinm]

Downloading the URL is easy. But sometimes there is an imbedded video. It would open something like a play list in WMP. That cannot be downloaded with only the URL. So I have to play around with the link to get it to work with hidownload.

My other program is simply called VOD Recorder (video on demand). It can detect the actual stream when played and download even if the steam is hidden with the player. But it is old and has problems with the new WMP9-10 players.

 

[jbritt1234]

What about clearing out your Temp Internet files then reloading the page?

 

[kamper]

Anything that is accessed via http can be grabbed with a url (with the possibility of a few tricks). Or are you talking about some streaming that uses some other protocol?

 

[Kilrsat]

Originally posted by: kamper
Anything that is accessed via http can be grabbed with a url (with the possibility of a few tricks). Or are you talking about some streaming that uses some other protocol?

Often the actual file you get through an http request is simply a wrapper for the real stream. Meaning you download a 1K file, and a properly coded video player knows how to open that file and connect to the real stream. This is why you need some of the fancier tools to be able to save the real stream, since otherwise you never really know what it is.

 

[kamper]

Guess I learned my something new for today. Thanks!