Can you capture streaming video?

[SzabaWolf]

Say a website has a link so you can watch a clip of a music video online "buffering" (realplayer for example) and that stuff,can you somehow capture it to watch it offline later? Because my connection is too slow to see it properly and all I get are stills with sound :/

[dcsos]

No hope for you, sorry

What you can do, If you can show the video on your desktop,
you can grab it with SNAG-IT or CAM STUDIO

these programs record whatever plays in your media player or dvd software

First you have to play it back properly without dropping frames..
Then and only then, can you play with saving options in -- these "non SAVABLE" video formats

[SzabaWolf]

Thanks,anyone out there with a faster connection and knowledge of this kind is welcome to help me out.If you wanna do it for me that is I just want a couple of very little clips that amuse me.

[lordsmurf]

There are programs that do this. Streambox is one of them.

[mysticgohan17]

HiDownload is another.
start "watching" the video
open temporary internet files
look for the windows media file
copy to your desktop
open in notepad
copy url from " mms:// " to " .wmv "
paste in HiDownload

[SzabaWolf]

Thank you!!

Okay,since I tried HiDownload first (it keeps freezing on me with multiple error messages) I downloaded one file and there's sound but no picture.Also ha;fway through it stops and says data error or something like that.

Rats,I give up :/

[RayH]

Capturing streaming video isn't an exact science. Like everything else, one side builds a better mousetrap and the other is building a better mouse! There are some streaming that CamStudio won't do.