[X4U] Save .mov files

[Eugene]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:51:10AM CDT, Peter Krug <pkrug at mac.com> wrote:
: 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?
: 
: 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.

AFAIK, there is no special encoding that makes a QuickTime movie
playable only from the web site.  If you can see in your browser,
you can save it to your hard drive.  The exception is streamed
content, which requires other techniques to rip it to a file.


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Eugene
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