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Can You Capture an Undownloadable Video?

by wiley1
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Of course I'm not talking about a video that you can download and save to your hard drive.

What's frustrating to me is how do you download (or capture) a video that you want to keep for information purposes, but it's not downloadable? Do you need to use a program like Camtasia to do this? Is it illegal to (essentially) copy it if the creator made it undownloadable?

So far, when I encounter these situations I've been writing down all the instructions on a notepad (manually) as I watch the video. It's very tedious and time consuming.

Anyone have a solution? Thanks guys. :confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author wiley1
      Originally Posted by damongreene View Post

      Use google! Google knows
      Hey Damon,

      What do you mean - Use Google?

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author AmyBrown
    Have you tried the DownloadHelper add-on for Firefox? I frequently download videos to watch later or for reference. I haven't come across one that was not downloadable.
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    • Profile picture of the author wiley1
      Originally Posted by AmyBrown View Post

      Have you tried the DownloadHelper add-on for Firefox? I frequently download videos to watch later or for reference. I haven't come across one that was not downloadable.
      Hi Amy,

      Thanks very much. I really appreciate it. I'll do that.
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      • Profile picture of the author RocksIT
        any type of file you view is stored in your temporary windows folder.. its just tough to find.. but especially flash .swf files can be retrieved quite easily.
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        • Profile picture of the author wiley1
          Originally Posted by RocksIT View Post

          any type of file you view is stored in your temporary windows folder.. its just tough to find.. but especially flash .swf files can be retrieved quite easily.
          Can you tell me how to retrieve them? I'm a non-techie.

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  • Profile picture of the author John Cabral
    Originally Posted by wiley1 View Post

    Of course I'm not talking about a video that you can download and save to your hard drive.

    What's frustrating to me is how do you download (or capture) a video that you want to keep for information purposes, but it's not downloadable? Do you need to use a program like Camtasia to do this? Is it illegal to (essentially) copy it if the creator made it undownloadable?

    So far, when I encounter these situations I've been writing down all the instructions on a notepad (manually) as I watch the video. It's very tedious and time consuming.

    Anyone have a solution? Thanks guys. :confused:
    FireFox has a few plugins that will help you there. Ant.com toolbar is good one.
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  • Profile picture of the author bertuseng
    Try search keepvid on google. This program and there are some others let you capture and save videos from youtube etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author wiley1
      Originally Posted by bryan85 View Post

      what if its someone else's video that is hosted on Amazon S3? can i record it when it streams-both the audio and video? Is there any software that does that?
      Good question. Hopefully someone will know.
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      • Profile picture of the author d101
        Originally Posted by wiley1 View Post

        Good question. Hopefully someone will know.
        ... the Safari Approach (from my original answer) works with Amazon S3 files, too.

        Amazon offers a rather complicated protection mechanism, that is sometimes used and tries to prevent the copy / paste trick, ... but if one is fast in spotting the file, then copy & pasting, it still works ...

        tested ;-)
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    • Profile picture of the author John Cabral
      Originally Posted by bryan85 View Post

      what if its someone else's video that is hosted on Amazon S3? can i record it when it streams-both the audio and video? Is there any software that does that?
      FireFox has plugins for that. Most videos have the audio embedded in them so thats should not be an issue. I just downloaded the videos from Jay Abram using the ant.com FF plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    i just mentioned this in another thread about 5 minutes ago, try the firefox plugin called "download helper" that does it

    DownloadHelper - Media download Firefox extension

    Originally Posted by wiley1 View Post

    Of course I'm not talking about a video that you can download and save to your hard drive.

    What's frustrating to me is how do you download (or capture) a video that you want to keep for information purposes, but it's not downloadable? Do you need to use a program like Camtasia to do this? Is it illegal to (essentially) copy it if the creator made it undownloadable?

    So far, when I encounter these situations I've been writing down all the instructions on a notepad (manually) as I watch the video. It's very tedious and time consuming.

    Anyone have a solution? Thanks guys. :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author d101
    Originally Posted by wiley1 View Post

    ... What's frustrating to me is how do you download (or capture) a video that you want to keep for information purposes, but it's not downloadable? Do you need to use a program like Camtasia to do this? Is it illegal to (essentially) copy it if the creator made it undownloadable? ...
    Anyone have a solution?

    ... in Safari there is an activity window (alt+cmd+a)... one can spot the file and copy / paste the link into the download window (alt+cmd+l) ...


    ... similar can be done in firefox,
    using developer plug-ins like firebug ... but i prefer the "safari way" ...

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  • Profile picture of the author dncserv
    If you have xp and are using IE8 then just play the video onscreen, then open the tools menu, internet options, under browsing history select settings, then view files. This will open your temp internet folder, I usually sort by file size as the videos are the largest, just right click and copy and paste to destop or other suitable folder and you can rename it as desired. I don't think it works in vista but I found this info by using google and asking how to save a you tube video, it works with most web based videos including training videos. Hope that helps.
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