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Save QuickTime 7 movies to disk
Authored by: taaminator on May 08, '05 04:47:50PM

Ditto! The cache is gone! (It seems!)

I have QT7P and I am trying to save "La Tortura" to disk.

http://www.shakira.com/video/Shakira_LaTorturaVidFull.mov

QT7P Save, Save As, Export, Copy, Cut, and Trim do not seem to work. Curl and tcpflow don't seem to work. I still get 4k movies. ffmpeg and SnapZ Pro don't work.

If anyone knows how to save streamed movies, please let me know.

(It would seem like tee would work!)



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Save QuickTime 7 movies to disk
Authored by: c.i.t on May 09, '05 11:49:59PM

I too was having this problem, but I found the trick. Basically, the 4k .mov file you are saving is merely a playlist of sorts (just like a .rm file). So though this is a bit tricky, open up the 4k .mov file in TextEdit. It will be full of random characters and such, but, look for a url.

In this case, there were two URLs in the playlist, I recommend simply doing a search for "http" or ".mov". The first URL was the movie I wanted, http://download.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2666580_300.mov (just a warning..it might be named something totally different in the playlist), so I merely wget'd it and now its nice and sound on my hard drive :-)

Hope this helps!!!



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Save QuickTime 7 movies to disk
Authored by: joe40 on May 10, '05 12:33:18AM

Having big trouble trying these tips and tricks on this one:

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/petergabriel/http/gupontour/guot_large_ref.mov
Peter Gabriel Growing Up On Tour
from the Peter Gabriel Website www.petergabriel.com
when you click on the 29.mb "Quicktime Movie" you get a very small file annadoc_large.qtl which if dbl-clicked opens quicktime. Even though I have QT 7 Pro, most control-click options are greyed out and the right mouse does not work.



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Save QuickTime 7 movies to disk
Authored by: Karel_G on May 10, '05 03:08:49PM

For me the easiest way to save the stram is as follows (no QTPro required!)
Open the stram in QT player
Get the URL (Get info in the player and copy the URL)
Paste the URL into a new safari window. (You can close QT player by now)
the movie starts to play in the safari window and not in QT player and that is what you want, for now you can:
- open the Activity window
-find the url there
hold the option key and double click the url.
Now the movie starts downloading (you can close the safari window to save bandwith)

Works like a charm.
(you can download lots of stuff by option-double click in the activity wiindow)



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Save QuickTime 7 movies to disk
Authored by: genericuser on Jun 10, '05 01:48:52AM

For what it's worth, I've looked at the Shakira .mov parent posted an URL to.
Essentially it's a container that has embedded references to the actual stream, and to shakira's web site.

wget http://www.shakira.com/video/Shakira_LaTorturaVidFull.mov (or curl -o, curl is installed by default, wget I had to compile from source) to your hard drive from the command prompt as usual, and then run 'strings' on it.

Here is what I end up with:
stany@gilva:~/tmp[01:47 AM]$ strings Shakira_LaTorturaVidFull.mov | egrep -i 'http|url|www'
,href<http://www.shakira.com/> T<_blank>
url rtsp://qt.sony-global.speedera.net/qt.sony-global/Epic/Shakira/Shakira_LaTorturaVidFull_300.mov
url http://www.sonymusic.com/clips/selection/video_banner/Epic_Shakira.gif
stany@gilva:~/tmp[01:47 AM]$

Second URL is of course rtsp path to the actual stream.

Hope this helps.



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