Save streaming vid as QT movie?

Is there a way to convert a streaming vid to a QT movie? In particular, I'd like to convert an AP News video.
Here's the LINK to the AP News video site.
iBook G4 1ghz/ G4 tower 500mhz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks, that's a great add-on for Firefox! But, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work w/ AP News vids.
AP News (as well as a lot of other news sites, now) have it set up so that when you click on a video, it opens up in their 'media player'.
I think what it's doing is that when you click on the link to the clip you want to see, the clip just opens up in a specific part of the page you're already viewing (as opposed to opening up a new page.) I think this prevents Download Helper (as well as the conversion sites) from knowing which particular part of the page to download.
Of course, I could be totally wrong, this is just a guess. But, if anyone can figure out how to do this, I'd appreciate it:)

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I want to save streaming video to watch later

Hi
I want to save streaming video to watch later, wma format, whatever
format is most common on the internet. Quick Time does not
open automatically when the streaming video starts but Windows Media
Player opens. What program is low cost that will save the video
stream that Quick Time Player or Windows Media Player can open?
thanks in advance
Mark S

I want to save streaming video to watch later, wma format, whatever
format is most common on the internet. Quick Time does not
open automatically when the streaming video starts but Windows Media
Player opens. What program is low cost that will save the video
stream that Quick Time Player or Windows Media Player can open?As I see it, you basically have 3 main options:
1) Screen Capture -- Any streaming video that can be watched/listened to can be captured. Several applications are available that can do this but I generally prefer SnapzProX. This class of program essentially allows you to "record" the audio and video as it is being played back on your computer. This is normally done using a very simple but very fast codecs which create rather large files on your computer but which can then be transcoded to a more efficient format for playback whenever you wish.
ADVANTAGES: You end up with a fully self-contained copy of the media which can be locally archived, moved, copied, and is available as long as you keep the copy.
DISADVANTAGES: This approach can require large amounts of storage space depending on the commpression format used and the number of files stored. Depending on the material involved, this could constitute a copyright violation of media use.
2) Save As... -- If you have/purchase QT Pro and/or an appropriate third-party QT component (like Flip4Mac in this case), you open open/play the streaming file in the QT Pro Player and save a copy of the movie that contains a resource pointer to the online streaming server. For all intents, you have a "copy" of the file stored on your computer that can, within certain limits, be played back whenever you wish.
ADVANTAGES: Since the saved movies are very small, you can save a large number of them on your computer. Since they open and play just like standalone movies, they are very easy to use and share. Since control of the content remains with the orginator and access (public or limited) remains as intended by the originator, you would not be violating copyrights here.
DISADVANTAGES: Material may be changed, removed, or unavailable for one reason or another at any given time. Playback requires connection to the Internet.
3) Bookmark/URL List -- As a last resort, you can always bookmark or copy the relavent streaming server URL to a "hyperlink" list and open the media manually whenever you wish/are able to do so.
ADVANTAGES: Nothing to buy.
DISADVANTAGES: Requires extra effort on your part, still won't open in the QT Player, and still remains subject to the online vagaries mentioned above.

VLC doesn't save streaming audio to mp3 anymore

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Two days ago I upgraded VLC from v.0.8.5-9 to v.0.8.6a-4 (which also upgraded ffmpeg from v.20060920-1 to v.20070131-1), and now the above procedure isn't working anymore. The stream isn't playing anymore over my speakers while the encoding supposedly is going on, the vlcout.mp3 file is empty (0B), and VCL gives me the following error messages:
stream_out_transcode error: cannot find encoder ((null))
stream_out_transcode error: cannot create audio chain
main error: cannot create packetizer output (mpga)
It looks as though VLC is failing to encode the stream to mp3. The VLC documentation (see http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html) in a table of "possible output formats for the transcoding module" says that for mp3 audio "you have to compile ffmpeg with libmp3lame support." Has the new ffmpeg v.20070131-1 (in extra) been compiled without mp3 support? If so, why? Apparently, the older version I was using last week supported mp3.
libmp3lame is installed on my system. There is a very recent alternative ffmpeg-svn-8218-1 pkgbuild in AUR that enables libmp3lame in the configure section of the build but when I try to install the package built that way it conflicts with ffmpeg v.20070131-1, and to remove the official ffmpeg v.20070131-1 I'd first have to remove a slew of other packages that depend on it.
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Last edited by RobF (2007-03-14 16:25:51)

I solved the problem for now by downgrading both vlc and ffmpeg to the earlier versions that I was using before. Saving an audio stream in mp3 format is working again now.
I believe there are problems with the current versions of both vlc and ffmpeg.
1. vlc 0.8.6a doesn't seem to have ffmpeg enabled, i.e.
$ vlc --list | grep ffmpeg
VLC media player 0.8.6a Janus
whereas with the older version I get
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ffmpeg FFmpeg video filter
ffmpeg FFmpeg crop padd filter
ffmpeg FFmpeg deinterlace video filter
2. The current package ffmpeg v.20070131-1 in extra may not refer to various libraries correctly in its configure parameters. E.g. in AUR there is an alternative pkgbuild ffmpeg-svn 8218-1 from 04-Mar-2007 in which the original configure parameters were replaced as follows:
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--enable-vorbis --> --enable-libvorbis
--enable-faac --> --enable-libfaac
--enable-faad --> --enable-libfaad
--enable-a52 --> --enable-liba52
--enable-dts --> --enable-libdts
Has the ffmpeg package in extra been compiled with mp3 support which is needed for the transcoding module of vlc to encode in mp3 format? The alternative ffmpeg package in AUR conflicts with the ffmpeg package from extra, and I don't know how to tell the new vlc to use the alternative package instead of the one from extra.
Someone ought to look into this.
Robert

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RANTAM1 wrote:
Using apple tv or whatever means and why couldn't I,
The AppleTV and iPhone do not have composite video (which use RCA connectors) outputs.
I purchased the movies and should be able to use anywhere as long as i have internet or downloaded to my phone.
and you can.
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I have found other forums that say you can.
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would someone be kind to help me
i need to know how to to save stream to file
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When I try to File > Save As on an .FLV movie, Firefox automatically changes the filetype to .mp4 while Chrome for instance retains the .FLV file type. I wanted to see why this is and how it can be fixed to work similarly to Chrome. Thanks.

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*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
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Need to save streaming video - what to do?

My apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I didn't know where to go...
There is a 30-second streaming video clip on the web that I would like to save/download for a legal promotional personal use.
Is there any macintosh software I can use to "grab" this file? I've read the source page as best I can, but it always leads to a non-linkable windows media file
Fast help would be appreciated. The file will only be only for a week.

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You can investigate other solutions by searching MacUpdate or Version Tracker. The user-submitted reviews accompanying the listings can be helpful in sorting the wheat from the chaff.
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Okay, so we currently own a 1st Gen ATV and love it, however 99% of it's use is streaming purchased content and/or home movies etc. that I've used visualhub/handbrake to convert and imported into my iTunes library. All in all, once I gave up and surrendered my video content to iTunes and started streaming to my 1st Gen ATV I've grown hooked, I love sorting stuff however I want (I have about 250 movies, entire seasons of X-Files etc. that I've ripped from my own (LEGAL) media and put in iTunes, so when it's sorted properly it's very clean, when it's all alpha, it's a nightmare.
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We're getting another TV for our den and have been looking into other media streaming options, what I love about the Apple TV is the way I can sort all our movies, shows etc. by genre, so the kids can just go to the stuff I've tagged as Kids Movies or I can make video playlists for them and mix up some Planet Earth and Dora the Explorer for our babysitter and movies /shows are tagged as watched/unwatched, if you stop one it will ask if you want to resume, etc.
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
The Apple TV 2 will play all the content in your iTunes library that your Apple TV 1 does. It can no longer sync any of it but can stream it all just as the older model did. Airplay is a different feature that lets you stream from an iPad/iPhone, the Apple TV 2 has Airplay the first didn't.
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It has a similar situation with TV shows. It will put all TV shows in a series in a folder as the older one did, but the new one lists each series separately whereas the older model would put all the series in one folder.
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KOENIG Yvan wrote:
Because it's a widely documented Lion's feature.
When a document wasn't open since a month (at least if my memory is OK) documents created by Lion's aware applications are locked to prevent accidental deletion.
You may unlock them from their title bar.
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