finding url of streaming video

[qwerty99]

does anyone know the best way to find a url of streaming video? i can't seem to find the url for a video i found i looked everywhere. it uses media player to play. is there a software which can find the url?

[The village idiot]

Check the tools section, I though I saw something that said it would do that.

[jester1x]

Look for streambox vcr in the tools section. Just make sure you have the program open when you open a streaming video. It makes it easier to input the url and will automatically input the url in some cases. Just keep in mind that you may be unable to download any and all streaming video. That is, the url that is uncovered may still not be the actual source of the streaming video. It's fun to try in any case though.

[qwerty99]

i tried streambox but i what am i suppose to do. is the url automatically going to come up or do i have to do something?

[qwerty99]

does anyone have any ideas?

[crow68x]

I have a example; how can you find a URL from a stream video like this?.
http://www.hultsfred.tv/ click on the "nightwish" picture.
I cant make the video appear on WMP or Real player;if I could I could find the URL;but this I have no idea....any one know how too?...if soo I would be very thank full.

[ovs27]

when the movie starts to play it'll make a file in your tempory internet folder (the file will be a .wmv or other kind of media file and will be a few hundred bytes tops most likely), open the temp media file in notepad and it will have the address to the original source

[Poplar]

From my experience, StreamBoxVCR is good only for RealMedia streams. It doesn't work at all with WMV streams. You'll need WM Recorder 9.0 or 9.01 for Windows Media streams. It's very good, but not free. As for the hidden url, you don't need to worry about it too much, the program will find it and trace it for you. Of course, I'm assuming you need the url because you want to record the stream......

[presto]

when the movie starts to play it'll make a file in your tempory internet folder (the file will be a .wmv or other kind of media file and will be a few hundred bytes tops most likely), open the temp media file in notepad and it will have the address to the original source

Why do you need then to know the url? The wmv file you find in your temporary internet folder IS the video. Just drag it to wherever you want and you're done.

[crow68x]

thanx for the suggestions. I ended up using URL SNOOPER to find the url for the stream and from there I used ASFRECORDER to capture the stream into my hard-drive and it came out perfect;and as you said the streambox vcr didnt even recognize the stream at all. thanx guys