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Save non-streaming QuickTime movies from Safari
Authored by: chyna4xena on Dec 02, '04 12:32:30AM
My technique:

Non-streaming, non-reference
(these are normal http .movs that have saving disabled)
1) Open the activity monitor, open the triangle for the webpage with the movie.
2) Double-click the .mov component while holding the option key.

Non-streaming, referenced
(these are small files, but still http .movs)
1) Go through the steps above to download the reference movie.
2) Open that movie in TextEdit, and copy the movie URL out of that file to the clipboard.
3) Paste into the Downloads window in Safari.

Non-streaming, no explicit URL
As others have noted, through the use of PHP and Perl etc, authors can effectively hide the originating URL - in this case, assuming the page source returned by the PHP or Perl code doesn't contain the movie URL, your only two chances are to check the /tmp/ hierarchy for likely files (rarely having the .mov extension, but obvious due to size - rename with a .mov after copying) or to discover it in your browser's cache.

Streaming movies
(these are rtsp .mov URLs)
The only reliable program I have found that can save movies streamed over the rtsp protocol is mplayer - but you'll have to build a version yourself from source that has the rtsp & streaming code included. If you also include the Real libraries when building this mplayer, you'll be able to save RealPlayer streams as well (these are rtsp .rm .ram etc URLs). Sometimes, the streamed movie's rtsp URL is inside a normal http .mov reference movie, so you'll have to use the steps above to extract it.


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