[MacDV] Re: iTunes 4 & The iTunes Music Store

Robert Meadors rmeadors at mac.com
Tue Apr 29 23:04:02 PDT 2003


I had no trouble saving as a Quicktime movie on my desktop and viewing 
at will.


On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 10:59  PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> On 4/29/03 8:48 PM, "Ian Tucker" <carlian at picknowl.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Is there anyway I can save Quicktime movies from web sites please?
>
> That depends on how the QuickTime movie was saved by the author.  In 
> this
> case, no.  With QuickTime compression/authoring programs it is 
> possible to
> set a flag in the QuickTime file to not let it be downloaded, and this 
> puts
> the power in the media author's hands, where it should be.  It used to 
> be
> possible to use an older version of Netscape (4.x) and search for the 
> files
> in it's cache folder -- but now QuickTime movies can even be told not 
> to
> cache themselves.  But now that I think of it, I'm not sure if that 
> applies
> to the older Netscape browsers as well...  Hmmm... Something to try 
> anyway?
>
> - Mark
>



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