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GetGo · Dec 5, 2004, 06:54 PM

Not sure if this is the right forum for this question. But I am trying to record a clip from the internet and save it to my hard drive. I am not talking about a movie. It is a car commercial that I really like and I would like to save it. I am not talking about downloading anything, I would need to play the commercial and record it at the same time. Would iMovie do something like this?

Jacke · Dec 5, 2004, 07:13 PM

Originally posted by GetGo:
Not sure if this is the right forum for this question. But I am trying to record a clip from the internet and save it to my hard drive. I am not talking about a movie. It is a car commercial that I really like and I would like to save it. I am not talking about downloading anything, I would need to play the commercial and record it at the same time. Would iMovie do something like this?

I think you're a bit confused (or at least making me confused), and it would help if you provided a link, or would tell a bit more about the source. If it's not a movie, is it purely audio? Or is it Flash-based?

And if it is a video clip, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to download it? The only option would be a screen-capture tool like Snapz, but that would be pretty bad for the quality, not to mention that you might end up with a file that's bigger than the original one.

christor · Dec 5, 2004, 08:27 PM

Ambrosia's Wiretap will record audio if that's all you want.
Info: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/
Download: ftp://ftp.AmbrosiaSW.com/pub/freebies/wiretap.sit

For video and audio recording you'll need Snapz pro x:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

Rev-O · Dec 5, 2004, 10:59 PM

If the movie exists as a link, couldn't you just Option+click the link to download and save it to your hard drive...

Fonzie · Dec 6, 2004, 12:08 AM

Originally posted by Jacke:
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And if it is a video clip, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to download it? .......

I think that's exactly his idea...to download the videoclip.

Jacke · Dec 6, 2004, 06:18 AM

Originally posted by Fonzie:
I think that's exactly his idea...to download the videoclip.

Well, he's sure being ambiguous about it...

Originally posted by GetGo:
I am not talking about downloading anything, I would need to play the commercial and record it at the same time.

yskar · Dec 6, 2004, 06:50 AM

Originally posted by GetGo:
Not sure if this is the right forum for this question. But I am trying to record a clip from the internet and save it to my hard drive. I am not talking about a movie. It is a car commercial that I really like and I would like to save it. I am not talking about downloading anything, I would need to play the commercial and record it at the same time. Would iMovie do something like this?

This might be what you are looking for....

Jacke · Dec 6, 2004, 07:25 AM

Originally posted by yskar:
This might be what you are looking for....

ASFRecorder (the GUI) has always been a bit weird for me. The only way I've gotten it to work is showing package contents and running mmsclient directly in the terminal.

GetGo · Dec 6, 2004, 07:40 PM

ASF Recorder didn't work. I am just trying to download the video clip.

Mithras · Dec 6, 2004, 10:29 PM

Maybe if you showed us the URL we could better understand what you're talking about.

Jacke · Dec 7, 2004, 03:58 AM

Unless he thinks it is material that might reflect poorly on him if he showed it to us...

Chuckit · Dec 7, 2004, 04:11 AM

Or the authorities.

Naplander · Dec 7, 2004, 08:07 AM

must be really good if it's such a heavily guarded secret eh?

GetGo · Dec 7, 2004, 07:28 PM

Ok guys it's only a mustang commercial here's the link.

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/American_Dreams/ford.shtml

Mithras · Dec 7, 2004, 09:21 PM

Okay. If all you want is the file, here it is (option-click in Safari to download the link, or control-click, save link).

If you want to know how to download it, read on:
1. Go to that page in your browser.
2. View source.
3. Do Edit:Find "wmv" to find the reference to the movie.
4. Copy that url: http://g.msn.com/0VD0/03/26?m=ad_ford2_111804.wmv&csid=3&sd=MBR

5. Now open Terminal, and type
curl 'http://g.msn.com/0VD0/03/26?m=ad_ford2_111804.wmv&csid=3&sd=MBR'
Note the single quotes, which are very important.

This returns

Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Document moved</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY><H1>Object Moved</H1>
This document may be found <A HREF="http://video.msn.com/asx/so.aspx?m=ad_ford2_111804.wmv&csid=3&sd=MBR">here</A>
</BODY></HTML>

so we know to now try this next address.
6. Now type
curl 'http://video.msn.com/asx/so.aspx?m=ad_ford2_111804.wmv&csid=3&sd=MB R'
and we get

Code:
<asx version="3.0"><entry><ref href="mms://od-msn.msn.com/3/MBR/ad_ford2_111804.wmv" /></entry></asx>

This is an mms:// address, which curl can't handle. we need mmsclient.

As mentioned by yskar, ASFRecorder is a nice little Mac GUI for mmsclient.
So launch ASFRecorder, and paste in the URL:
mms://od-msn.msn.com/3/MBR/ad_ford2_111804.wmv

It will take a while, but eventually you will have the file.
Cheers!

GetGo · Dec 11, 2004, 07:35 PM

This reply is for Mithras

Thank You very much for copying the commercial. That was some explaination of how to do it. I would never try something like that. I got it from your link. That's all I wanted was the commercial to save. Thanks again

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