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.
- In Safari, open the web page containing the embedded Quicktime movie you want to save.
- Right click on the web page and View Source.
- Search for the RTSP URL ending in ".mov".
- 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.
- Open that Quicktime file in BBEdit.
- You will see a line of garbled text, but within it is a new HTTP address. Copy everything between http and .mov.
- Paste that into Safari's Download window.
Voila!
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