How to download streaming video

[nat]

Hi, had a look over at the tutorials section nothing really seems to work. Still haven't been able to successfully download a streaming video, installed "Downloadthemall" nice little program but won't show an the actual video file. It shows video files but when I download them they're only like a 30 KB, when I open them it begins to stream. So anybody found a sure fire solution for this?

[muyoso]

It really depends which site you are trying to download from. Some sites make it really hard, while others are a cinch. More info needed.

[tesco]

If it's downloading asf/asx files, and sometimes with some wmv too and others, and they're too small to be the actual video, open it with notepad and you'll usually find a url to where it's streaming from.

For example say you downloaded:
http://site.com/videos/video.asx
Open it with notepad and you may find:
http://site.com/videos/video.wmv
Enter that into your browser and it will download the full video file.
Just as an example.

[rexton85]

When i have to download streams from YouTube, i always use VideoDownloader (http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php)

If you also use FireFox, they even provide a nice extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/2390

[gonik]

i preety much do what rexton85 does...
except that i don't like overloading ff with extensions.. it's allready a memory hog anyway..
So i wrote a bookmarklet for VideoDownloader. add to your bookmarks the section below.. Every time you visit a Youtube, googlevideo page etc, just click on that bookmark and a popup will come up with details on downloading your video.


javascript:var txt = "http://videodownloader.net/get/?url=" + escape(window.content.document.location.href) + %22&orig=ffp&ver=1%22;void(window.open(txt,'VD','fullscreen=no,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,directories=no,location=no,width=800,height=400'));

[rexton85]

gonik, thank you for your tip ;-)

[rogge]

I use this addon in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3006

its frequently updated and new sites are added.

[boomerang]

great pieces of info guys thanks

[AmpeD]

the video dowloader firefox extension is very handy because it is right there when you need it