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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?
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.
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.
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
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.
Code: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'));
gonik, thank you for your tip ;-)
I use this addon in Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3006
its frequently updated and new sites are added.
great pieces of info guys thanks
the video dowloader firefox extension is very handy because it is right there when you need it