chinz Wrote:this is what i ment lol. sorry !!!

Ok, i personally havn't tried saving a streaming quicktime file before, but i can tell u some general methods of obtaining streaming files, and hopefully, they may work.

1. If the file is an embedded file, if ur using firefox, u can right click on an empty part of the page, it is important to do it on an empty part, otherwise the options won't appear, then click on "view page info" -» "media". now look at all the links, and find the link to ur embedded file, if there are multiple embedded files, u should be able to differentiate the real one from the ads, based on the names. Then click the save as button, or if that doesn't work, shove the link into a download manager. This works for all embedded files like you-tube and google-video files, and should work if ur quicktime file is embedded.

2. If it is not embedded, and u click a link to play the file, u can try to save the link. go right click and "save as" and u will save down a very small referrer file. In the case of real media, this is a .ram file, and if u open that with notepad, somewhere inside that .ram file, it will have the real link to the file, throught the rtsp protocol, and u just need to stick that link into a download namager and download the file. But for quicktime files, i don't know if u can do that. Try to open the html file u get with save as, and see if it gives u a link somewhere in there, if yes, then good. If it gives a pertial link, then try adding that onto the url of the site, at different levels, if it doesn't work then i have no idea. If the link uses javascript, and u can't save it then i have no idea either.

3. Also for some streaming media, the file is actually saved somewhere on the computer, usually in a internet cache folder, can also be in memory. So if u go to that temporary internet folder of the browser u use, u may also be able to get the file.



if that doesn't help, then i have no idea. oh, really old quicktime files actually give u the option of saving it. click the little arrow thing on the bottom, and select "save as source" but all the newer files won't work with that, the option will be blacked out.

(This post was last modified: 17/05/2007 06:10 AM by Assassinator.)