J
jimtester@nomail.com
I think I have spent 3 full days trying to save these online Media
Player streams. I thought it would be easy to copy it from my IE
cache file. I found the files wnding with .DAT. They do not play in
Media Player. I am using Media Player 9 on Win98se.
I thought I could use Firefox and possibly save them as a FLV. I
forgot Firefox does not even recognise or play Media Player files.
Opera does not recognise the either.
I googled and read many websites. I downloaded and tried a thing
called VLC Media Player. That program is way over my head as far as
understanding it, and about all it did was steal my file associations
from Winamp for audio files. I finally removed it. I tried a few
other freeware and shareware programs. None did anything.
The files play just fine online. I am on dialup, so it takes a few
minutes to download, then it plays just fine in Media Player.
However, I am trying to save them to my own computer in either WMV or
FLV format (or even an AVI). Media Player has no "Save" option. None
of these other programs I downloaded worked. I saved those .DAT files
and tried to save the HTML page and load it from the saved page. That
dont work either. I'm at a point I no longer have any idea what to do
or try anymore.
Can any of you help?
Here is the URL for one of the files I am trying to save. This
website is a nearby TV station's site.
http://wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=7564904
Click on the little purple camera icon next to the words "Rotary
Lights Season Comes to an End". The video will load in a Media Player
screen embedded in a Webpage. First there will be a 15 second
commercial for a RV company, then the actual video will appear and
play, followed up by a screen for the TV station. (Total 3 videos,
thus 3 .DAT files in the cache. The large 2+ gig file is the desired
one ot save, but it needs to be converted to a usable format, or the
file just saved from the stream.
Like I said, I have completely run out of ideas what to try, and none
of these downloads that claim to capture files of this sort seem to
work, or are far too complicated as is that VLC. There's go to be
some way to do this, but how? Normally I can "hack" my way thru stuff
like this, but not this time. Video seems to be one of the most
confusing media available to the PC.
I would like to save files from this tv station from time to time.
Can anyone please assist !!!
Thanks
Jim T.
PS. Most of the stories in that website have the same kind of videos,
in case you want to look at others. All of them seem to load using
javascript.
Player streams. I thought it would be easy to copy it from my IE
cache file. I found the files wnding with .DAT. They do not play in
Media Player. I am using Media Player 9 on Win98se.
I thought I could use Firefox and possibly save them as a FLV. I
forgot Firefox does not even recognise or play Media Player files.
Opera does not recognise the either.
I googled and read many websites. I downloaded and tried a thing
called VLC Media Player. That program is way over my head as far as
understanding it, and about all it did was steal my file associations
from Winamp for audio files. I finally removed it. I tried a few
other freeware and shareware programs. None did anything.
The files play just fine online. I am on dialup, so it takes a few
minutes to download, then it plays just fine in Media Player.
However, I am trying to save them to my own computer in either WMV or
FLV format (or even an AVI). Media Player has no "Save" option. None
of these other programs I downloaded worked. I saved those .DAT files
and tried to save the HTML page and load it from the saved page. That
dont work either. I'm at a point I no longer have any idea what to do
or try anymore.
Can any of you help?
Here is the URL for one of the files I am trying to save. This
website is a nearby TV station's site.
http://wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=7564904
Click on the little purple camera icon next to the words "Rotary
Lights Season Comes to an End". The video will load in a Media Player
screen embedded in a Webpage. First there will be a 15 second
commercial for a RV company, then the actual video will appear and
play, followed up by a screen for the TV station. (Total 3 videos,
thus 3 .DAT files in the cache. The large 2+ gig file is the desired
one ot save, but it needs to be converted to a usable format, or the
file just saved from the stream.
Like I said, I have completely run out of ideas what to try, and none
of these downloads that claim to capture files of this sort seem to
work, or are far too complicated as is that VLC. There's go to be
some way to do this, but how? Normally I can "hack" my way thru stuff
like this, but not this time. Video seems to be one of the most
confusing media available to the PC.
I would like to save files from this tv station from time to time.
Can anyone please assist !!!
Thanks
Jim T.
PS. Most of the stories in that website have the same kind of videos,
in case you want to look at others. All of them seem to load using
javascript.
