Hi everyone, love ths site..... Last year, i was helping a friend witha school project. She needed to edit some videos( she had permission) I remember a web page she was working with had videos on it, but you couldnt download them. Someone showed me a trick to do a view source or something, and when we did it, we saw a link and took the link to google and in the google search, just the video only (that was then downloadable) came up with the search. If anyone can refresh my memory on how to do this, would be much appreciated. Thanks !

NeedKarma

Ok, here is the URL of the streaming video file file:
http://www.freethechildren.com/images/kenyawmv-1.wmv

Open Windows Media Player (I have Vista and version 11 of WMP), Under File there should be an 'Open URL' option, select that. Paste in the URL above; once the video starts playing click on File > Save As and save the video to your computer. It's about 2.7 MB.

If you have any problems let me know, I can email the file to you.

Good luck!

xphelper

Leeboy,
Now I understand what you were talking about when you said "use view source" and then "do something." So, when you go to that page you recently identified, click on View > Source (this displays the raw data like html, javascripts, etc). Go to the bottom of the source page and look for this line of data: <embed src="kenyawmv-1.wmv" width="320" height="285"></embed>. This is the embedded source of the video file you are watching (eg, it's actual unmasked location). So, in this specific case, if you just edited your original link and replaced "video_kenya.htm" with "kenyawmv-1.wmv", then you would be able to download that video. This information is only intended to try and help you remember what you did before; however, I must warn you that this method will not work on most websites because they have a more secure method of protecting their videos. For those site that are more protected, you may need something like this Capture Streaming Video and Record Streaming Audio with WM Recorder which is the best utility I've ever used for capturing streaming video. As best I remember, the trial never expires but you are limited to a maximum of 5 minutes for each session. Now, this Media Player has "built-in" capabilities to capture streaming video (and it is free), so you might want to take a peek here: VLC media player - Overview