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10.4: Yet another Safari/QuickTime save movie tip
Authored by: daver969 on Jun 02, '05 11:27:57AM

or, you could do
curl -O http://your.url.here/file.mov
and it will save it with the original name (that's a capital oh after the dash)

I find that often the complete url doesn't exist anywhere in the html so I have to piece it together. The code may only have a relative address: "/the/movies/folder/here/movie.mov" and you have to figure out how to tack it on to the url. (not necessarily trivial since the relative address might refer to some subfolder of the url: http://the.url.com/subfolder, for example)



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10.4: Yet another Safari/QuickTime save movie tip
Authored by: romzburg on Jun 02, '05 11:38:01AM

Here's a clunky non-terminal way to get at those non-savable movie files too:

Do a "view source" and find the movie (avi, wmv, mov, whatever) file that is being streamed and copy it's full URL.

Make yourself an html document that has that URL as a hyperlink.

Launch that html document and CTRL-click, or right-click your hyperlink and save the file. It will now save since your html document is not restricting the movie to just stream.

I have a "download.html" document on my desktop for just such emergencies, and have used it for all kinds of streamed content.

(I used to use iGetMovies.app but that no longer works with 10.4.)

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10.4: Yet another Safari/QuickTime save movie tip
Authored by: morespace54 on Jun 02, '05 11:49:34AM

I don't know about Tiger but I know that in Panther with QT6, you could simply "download" the 4KB version. Now, without closing the page or window that contain the original movie, open that 4KB version with QT and "save as" a complete QuickTime Movie, with all the data.



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