Extracting the video file from an .htm

[Enthus]

I captured a video which has an htm extension. I can watch it on my browser, no problem.
How do I extract the video file so that I can watch it on my TV?
I´ve tried Youtube , Freemake, Orbit and Speedbit downloaders, none seem to be able to deal with this problem.
Someone please have an answer.
Thank you for your help.

[aedipuss]

htm is just a text file from a website. open it in note pad and there should be a link to the video that is then played. you may be able to get the video directly.

[jan5678]

Most likely the file is a swf or flv flash video. you can try to check with mediainfo
rename the extension to either one and try play it with vlc or your favorite player.
if that works convert it to something your tv or whatever you want to play it on will playback.

[Enthus]

aedipuss, Thank you. But Looking at the file in notebook leaves me clueless as I´m not sure which file extension is relevant and none seem relevant except an rss. which still leaves me puzzled.

[Enthus]

jan 5678, Thanks but media info won´t read the file and identify the video and switching extensions doesn´t play in vlc

[zoobie]

Post the code

[Ai Haibara]

Hold on - what is the size of the .htm/.html file?

For Notepad, open the .htm/.html file directly, to read the contents - but only IF it's a few small K in filesize. Otherwise, it might indeed be a renamed video file (though it's odd MediaInfo didn't detect it, even as an HTML page.)

[Enthus]

The file size was about 38Kb

[poisondeathray]

The file size was about 38Kb

Then that's not the actual video. Either you didn't download it properly , or you're not looking in the right folder

How did you "capture" or download the video? What software ?

What is the URL address of the webpage for the video ?

[Enthus]

I watched the video through firefox. its an htm executable file ending. I grabbed it with Orbit downloader.

[aedipuss]

.htm is not a .exe (executable file) - somewhere in the .htm is a link to the url of the video. you can probably post the .htm as an attachment here if you want others to check it for you.

[poisondeathray]

I watched the video through firefox. its an htm executable file ending. I grabbed it with Orbit downloader.

Sorry, not enough information

That's the webpage. All webpages have .htm or .html extension . This webpage on videohelp has the same extension. But it's not a video...

Orbit didn't "get" the correct video

If you provide the web address , the URL address , people here can give you better insight to the problem and possible solutions

[Enthus]

2-broke-girls-season-1-episode-19-and-the-spring-break.htm
That´s the name of the file I grabbed with Orbit. As I said the whole episode plays on my browser but not on vlc. and the Url I got it from was:
http://www.tvshow7.eu/castle-season-4-episode-19-47-seconds/

[pandy]

http://s06.modovideo.com:80/vid/f6453b741b407b2deb9756ddedb4c56b/4f8f16ed/flv/4gt3edng...kgf8x93a8g.flv

your file

this is visible in url passed to swf player.

[Enthus]

Wow! That´s great Thank you!!!
Please explain to me how you got it. Were you able to find it from the file name in text format?

[pandy]

I have FireFox 3.6.28 with "Adblock Plus", also i have "no flash" plugin, and "greasemonkey" with script "urlcleaner".

Above player window i see tab BLOCK added by adblocker, when i enter to BLOCK tab a see full url with link to movie, "urlcleaner" translate this to bit more readable form - thus i'm able to copy link and i can download file with flv extension.
Nothing fancy i think.

I assume that with adblock You should be able to see url for file with any browser.

Or perhaps it should be also visible in page source...

[locolocal]

What Pandy did seems magical to me - I have been trying the same with a video segment at http://www.vegasmorningblend.com/videos/200629721.html. Cant find a way to get to the actual video url. Can you?

[jagabo]

2-broke-girls-season-1-episode-19-and-the-spring-break.htm
That´s the name of the file I grabbed with Orbit. As I said the whole episode plays on my browser but not on vlc. and the Url I got it from was:
http://www.tvshow7.eu/castle-season-4-episode-19-47-seconds/

Firefox with DownloadHelp could download the video. And I got this URL:
http://cs505617.vk.me/u3326833/videos/28057d00cb.360.mp4

[jagabo]

What Pandy did seems magical to me - I have been trying the same with a video segment at http://www.vegasmorningblend.com/videos/200629721.html. Cant find a way to get to the actual video url. Can you?

RtmpExplorer

[420demonwolf98]

I have the same problem, but the video I downloaded was 40 MB and therefore should indeed be the video source and not just a Link. Should I rename the extension and hope for the best or is there something else to do? I'd like to use this particular video to edit into a YouTube Poop.

[Ai Haibara]

I have the same problem, but the video I downloaded was 40 MB and therefore should indeed be the video source and not just a Link. Should I rename the extension and hope for the best or is there something else to do? I'd like to use this particular video to edit into a YouTube Poop.

If you want to be sure, run the file through MediaInfo, and see what MediaInfo tells you about the file. No need to guess what the contents may be.