Download Videos From Yahoo/MTV/VH1

[Jedi5]

Using Orbit to d/l music videos from the above sites to name a few. It seems that Orbit Downloader is no longer working on these sites.

Any one else having problems using Orbit to d/l videos? If so, can you suggest a free program that I should look at? Real Media Catcher keeps being suggested but that is a 30 day trial.

If this is true, can someone confirm this?
I've copied this from a thread in the Orbit forum:

It works like this: each time their content page is loaded, a unique cookie is set within their flash player, then that cookie is sent to the server to initiate the stream, but it is a one-time use cookie. The problem is that Orbit attempts to start a different stream with the same URL, but it now fails because the cookie has already been used. It seems ALL content providers are now switching to this technique - it started early last month with Akamai based servers and is now spreading to other content providers like Hulu.

Its over folks, get used to it.

The only solution is for Orbit to be re-programmed to capture the authenticated FLV stream already playing in the proprietary player.

[unclebud]

Yahoo Video seems to work with Firefox browser and the DownloadHelper addon at least for music videos but not for movie trailers.

[Jedi5]

Grr... I don't have FF. Still an IE user.

[unclebud]

Get it it's FREE and the plugins are FREE too.

PLus, FF will download the higher quality videos from YouTube. Youtube has everything in varying quality.

[coondog1234]

Using Orbit to d/l music videos from the above sites to name a few. It seems that Orbit Downloader is no longer working on these sites.

Any one else having problems using Orbit to d/l videos? If so, can you suggest a free program that I should look at? Real Media Catcher keeps being suggested but that is a 30 day trial.

If this is true, can someone confirm this?
I've copied this from a thread in the Orbit forum:

It works like this: each time their content page is loaded, a unique cookie is set within their flash player, then that cookie is sent to the server to initiate the stream, but it is a one-time use cookie. The problem is that Orbit attempts to start a different stream with the same URL, but it now fails because the cookie has already been used. It seems ALL content providers are now switching to this technique - it started early last month with Akamai based servers and is now spreading to other content providers like Hulu.

Its over folks, get used to it.

The only solution is for Orbit to be re-programmed to capture the authenticated FLV stream already playing in the proprietary player.

Yes I am having problems with orbit no longer working, ive tried a few dozen video sites and orbit can no longer download RTMP streams anymore orbit just gives that wait for retry error and it keeps repeating, Jedi5 you should submit a bug report to the developers of orbit with that info so they will take care of it, but what i saw is there was no flv header i dunno if this would have anything to do with it but what i was thinking someone could do was code some sort of browser add on that attaches to your browser's flash player and whenever you play anything streamed via RTMP it sees a flash video and dumps it to a file as the video plays so instead of discarding the data packets like most streaming does have them dumped to a file. lets see someone come up with that b/c there is alot of streaming stuff id like to download like from fancast dot com which uses this system

[samthjj67]

ur...Try StreamTransport.