[MacDV] Capture Streaming Videos

[Nick Scalise]

On Sep 24, 2005, at 3:34 PM, John Kiss wrote:

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> On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:19 PM, David DelMonte wrote:
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>> Forgive if this has been discussed before.. but is there any way  
>> to capture quicktime video streams
>>
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> Just read this in Macworld. Good for Tiger. For previous versions  
> of the OS, I think the download ends up in a tmp folder while it's  
> streaming in Quicktime.
>
> Use Safari to get to the web site. Start the download and wait  
> until the Quicktime window opens and starts playing the video. Go  
> the Quicktime/Window/Show Movie Info and copy the URL listed under  
> Source. Paste that into a Safari window and the streaming video  
> will now play within the Safari window. Open up Safari's Activity  
> window and Option Double-click on the source file listed in the  
> window. The video stream will now download.

I just tried that with Apple's Special Event (Jobs intro'ing the  
nano) and it did not work. I think that hint only works with http  
type movies. The Apple stream was rtsp.


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