An alternative method of saving QuickTime streams

Jul 20, '04 08:48:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Dammit, I love Pink Floyd. I was overjoyed to see that the official Floyd site posted the entire Final Cut short film (which is very rare) on their site. The only problem is, it is a Quicktime stream embedded in the HTML, and the previous VLC hint wasn't working to save it. Well, this hint is the modified version of the VLC method; the one that saved that sucker to my hard drive. Hopefully this will work for similar streams.

  1. In Safari, open the web page containing the embedded Quicktime movie you want to save.
  2. Right click on the web page and View Source.
  3. Search for the RTSP URL ending in ".mov".
  4. Copy and paste that address into Safari's Download window. You have now downloaded a 4KB QuickTime file that merely points to the stream. Your full movie isn't saved.
  5. Open that Quicktime file in BBEdit.
  6. You will see a line of garbled text, but within it is a new HTTP address. Copy everything between http and .mov.
  7. Paste that into Safari's Download window.
Voila!

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