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9 Replies Last post: Apr 28, 2006 8:27 PM by Martian  
Click to view mmacdonald455's profile Member 222 posts since
Dec 11, 2001
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Apr 25, 2006 3:12 PM

Suggestions on how to d/l video clips from Safari

I'd like to be able to download embedded video (is that the right term) from various websites to view at later times and have only tried IGetMovies. It doesn't work for me. Does anyone have a suggestion apart from Quicktime Pro?
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Click to view Typhoon14's profile Old Hand 2,316 posts since
Feb 2, 2001
1. Apr 25, 2006 3:37 PM in response to: mmacdonald455
Re: Suggestions on how to d/l video clips from Safari
Select "Activity" from Safari's "Window" menu. The window will show a list of the complete addresses to each and every file loaded by a particular website. Simply find the file with the extension or size of the movie, click on the line, do a copy, then paste into Safari's downloads window to download the file.
Click to view Typhoon14's profile Old Hand 2,316 posts since
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3. Apr 25, 2006 6:40 PM in response to: mmacdonald455
Re: Suggestions on how to d/l video clips from Safari
The video in question appears to be Windows Media streaming. Generally speaking, streaming video content cannot be saved to disc, save by using a screen video capture application like Snapz Pro.

The trick I mentioned will still work for non-streaming video though.
Click to view Martian's profile Old Hand 1,484 posts since
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5. Apr 26, 2006 9:08 PM in response to: mmacdonald455
Re: Suggestions on how to d/l video clips from Safari
I once saved a Windows Media stream (the tobacco CEOs shamelessly lying to a House subcommittee declaring that tobacco is not addictive).

I think what I did was:
- Play the stream in Safari through WMP plugin.
- Dont quit anything.
- Search for invisible files, last modified today, over say a quarter or half a megabyte.
- Look for some cache file (if I could remember the name, I could simplify the search criteria).
- Copy the cache file to the desktop...if this is the correct file, it will play just by double clicking.
- You can change the extension to .wmv though this probably isnt necessary.
Click to view Nobody's profile New Member 58,347 posts since
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6. Apr 27, 2006 7:36 AM in response to: mmacdonald455
Re: Suggestions on how to d/l video clips from Safari
Could you please stretch this window a little more... I still have some extra space left on my very large monitor.
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9. Apr 28, 2006 8:29 PM in response to: mmacdonald455
Re: Suggestions on how to d/l video clips from Safari
I use OS 10.3. If you are using 10.4, I believe that you must use Spotlight,
which I know nothing about. In earlier OSs, you can add multiple search criteria.
The visibility criteria gives you three choices visible, invisible, and both.
I really dont know why visible is a choice because if you dont invoke this criteria altogether,
you still get visible only.

(Anybody know why this is so damn wide? I just edited my post by inserting hard line breaks)