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Video on the web

PostPosted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:23 pm
by Jay Wisnieski
I was wondering if anyone on the forums knows of a way to save a video clip from a website to your hard drive. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as "Right Click, then Save As". This clip is a .wmv file, but it plays inside of a media player application, and when you click "Save As" on the link to the clip, it tries to save it as a .html file. Any help would be great. Thanks.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:37 am
by mholtz
This video is intentionally a "streaming" video. They don't want you to be able to save it to your hard drive.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:08 pm
by OldPoly75
Must be trying to download that BuckCherry video from ifilm again...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:04 pm
by Jay Wisnieski
Who told you?

No, a friend of mine is an aspiring pro wrestler, and he recently got to be in a match on WWE Heat, a show only televised on the internet. Even though he was assigned the role of "guy who gets the crap beat out of him", I still wanted to save that match on my computer, so I was wondering if there was a way to circumvent the "video in a media player" thing.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:34 pm
by Adam G
Jay Wisnieski wrote:he was assigned the role of "guy who gets the crap beat out of him"


For the record, that role is called a jobber. Yeah, I watched WWF when i was a kid, who didnt?

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:29 pm
by UMR_LAX_29
If the video is truly streaming in the media player, i don't think there is a way to save it. But sometimes video clips get downloaded into your temporary internet files cache folder and you can save/move it to anywhere on your computer from there.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:54 pm
by Jay Wisnieski
uwec_attack wrote:For the record, that role is called a jobber.


I didn't want to use the wrestling lingo for those who wouldn't know what "jobber" means.

uwec_attack wrote:Yeah, I watched WWF when i was a kid, who didnt?


I still do. I know it's stupid and awful, but I have to waste my time on something.