How To Download Streaming Video... Tricky!

[qsecofr]

hi all internet geru :

i want to download some steaming video from a website. however minimum info can be found about the video.

the video was displayed by windows media player but not sure what was the video format

the link on the "click to play" button was hidden or encrypted so i was not able to see what is the file location.

i tried to right click the media player when the movie was playing... but nothing happened.

any other ways i can find out the movie link ?

tks

qsecofr.

[cnnaing]

It depended on your browser.

[melus]

It is a bit tricky, especially if there's no way to get the link. About the only way I've found that can record the kind of streaming video you describe is by using WM Recorder. You can look at it here.

[Rimmer]

Aren't the authorities trying to stop ppl D/L STEAMING vdo's?

[melus]

What authorities? And, what are they going to do, take your computer away and lock you up?

[jsat]

Most likely you do have the codex for the video stream you are trying to watch. There are many sites offering codexs and the one we use mostly is here http://www.jsat.tv/tour/cod.zip for all our XP PC's for DVB work.

Also consider downloading and using VLC as your media player as it will do 99.9% of every format and even stream the video (and audio for that mater) back over your home theatre network. VLC can be found here; http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC will open and run streams that WMP has problems with as well.

Good luck

[briley]

If you want to find the URL that your computer is looking at URL sniffer will list them as you ask for them - and you can then work out which of the URL's is the one for the streaming video.

You can filter for multimedia URL's only

Find it at:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.html

Freeware as well!