capturing streaming media like the clone wars toon?

[video567]

I dont know if this is thew right forum for this but i want to capture the clone wars toon from the cartoonnetwork website they are in streaming format when i try to save it from the window it saves it as a .smil format..

I have tried to open that in quicktime with no luck can someone help?
I would love to have a vcd of the videos they have one just the toon itself the other with commentary

If you can help email me or post here thank you!

[trevlac]

I assume this is ok since there is no copy protection and the files can be freely had from the 'owner'.

So here's some info:

The hi res QT version can be grabed over http. Here is an example url. (right click and save as)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/turner/gl/cartoon_net/starwars/chapter1/320_hi_dl.mov

You can use Blink/Smacker to convert the video. I'm not sure you can convert the audio. A quick time expert maybe could help. :P

To get the real media versions you need something that talks rtsp protocol. HiDownload is a (30-day trial) program that does.

Here is an example url for a real file (right click probably won't work here)

rtsp://demand1.stream.aol.com/turner/gl/cartoon_net/clonewars/chapter2/st_video.rm


You could use the real audio on the qt video. I believe there are guides for all of the conversion stuff.......

Have Fun !!

[video567]

thanks for the reply.. so i guess my question is how did you find the url.. because when i did a view source at the cartoon network all i could find was the smil file link.. thank you

[trevlac]

To get the URLs

Right click on the url's I gave and check the properties. All the other mov/rm files are a simple variation of the 1st. 'chapter1', 'chapter2', ...

OR

If you just want to know for future fun, open the smil file in notepad.


Edit BTW, I did not grab all of the files. I'm not planning on doing what you want to do. I just thought it was interesting so I took a look. Kinda wished I captured the broadcasts when they were on tv. Too bad they only show them in small little bites.

[NightWing]

A bit off topic but they ran all ten last night { 11/21/03 }.

Have read of plans to release them on DVD. Abou the other 10 of the total twenty have no idea when they will be released. Just a vauge 2004 listing.

[Supreme2k]

Trevlac,
They showed all 10 at once on friday. They're supposed to do it again soon.

video567,
You can convert with TMPGEnc. There is a quicktime vfapi in the Tools section (I think).

Also, try these URLs (right click and Save-As) Make sure that "Save movies in disk cache" is checked in the QuickTime Plug-in Setting.


http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter1_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter2_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter3_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter4_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter5_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter6_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter7_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter8_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter9_320_hi.mov
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/video/meta/standard/qt/chapter10_320_hi.mov

[video567]

thanks for the info on the smil file i didnt know that.. i wish i could have catched the ten eps lastnight.. it would have made it so much easier for me i could have made my vcd by now.. i thank you for your time and information. thankyou so much