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Save streaming QuickTime movies from Safari
Authored by: agamemnon on Oct 06, '03 08:42:40PM

There are really 2 different types of QuickTime movies; true streaming media, which require a separate program to "rip" them to disk. I personally haven't had any need for this type of program, but they are out there.

The other type are static files (normally with the .mov extension) that typically use QuickTime's "fast start" option to start playing before the entire file has been downloaded. As a previous poster mentioned, some files are marked as "not savable" (even with Pro), but you can grab the cached copy of these files from /private/tmp/<uid>/Temporary Items/ from the Terminal or any other program that lets you browse the whole disk. The file should be pretty obvious; just make sure to grab it while it is displayed in your browser. Note that <uid> = your unix user ID, which on OS X is probably 501 or slightly higher -- 501 is the uid for the first user created on OS X, they go up sequentially after that.

If you really care, you can get your uid with the "id" command in Terminal.



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Save streaming QuickTime movies from Safari
Authored by: plasma on Mar 08, '04 04:35:07PM

I used the shell to search out the tmp files, but was unable to find any for the XXXXXX_ref.mov i was accessing. downloading it and opening it it contains links with protocols like "frtsp" and extensions such as
movrmdr



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Save streaming QuickTime movies from Safari
Authored by: plasma on Mar 08, '04 04:38:25PM

there is something severely glitched with this page, the tags do not work under the modes instructed and cut off msgs regardless of "code" or not. meh, oh well, enough of the message got through.



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