[X4U] Save .mov files

[Peter Krug]

Neil,

I see this with many movie files, especially music videos from band 
websites.  I think they have encoded the movie with something special 
to make it only work from their website.  One thing I and others have 
suggested is to view the page source and search for ".mov".  If there 
is a direct link to the movie, that's the easiest way to grab it when 
it fails out of the cache.  But not all movie downloads work this way 
either.

Just read your response again - if the movie is streamed, not 
downloaded, then this won't work since the files are not actually 
downloaded.  In this case, I think I remember that there is some 
command line program that will grab the video as it comes in to the 
computer and build a file from the stream.  Or at least I want there to 
be such a program (maybe I was dreaming at the time).

Hope this helps,

Peter


On Apr 25, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Neil wrote:

> on 7/8/04 10:51 AM, Peter Krug wrote:
>
>> I searched in
>> the finder for Visible and Invisible items, Modified today, greater
>> than 300 kb.  I got a file called 47D7A76Cd01 that was in my Camino
>> cache folder.  I renamed it .mov and launched it in QT player.  It
>> worked!!
>
> I did the same thing to find the files in my Firefox cache, but when I 
> tried
> to open them in QT, I got an error message that the files were not in a
> format that QT understands.  That's strange because I saw them play in 
> QT
> when it streamed.  Does anybody have any idea how to get at those 
> files?
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
>
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