[ichad]

Has anyone been able to download the movies streamed within iTuens Music Store? Are they kept anywhere locally temporaily like IE does/used to?

[eevyl]

/private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems

Something called "QTPluginTemp" should be what you look for.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by ichad:
Has anyone been able to download the movies streamed within iTuens Music Store? Are they kept anywhere locally temporaily like IE does/used to?

Yes, you can. I've gotta go to work right now so I can't give all the details but its basically like this.

Look in tmp/501 (501 is the admin users account usually) .. you'll need a way to view hidden files. I use RBrowser Lite (FTP browser) and browse my own machine and its hidden files.

There will be an obvious large file in there with some nonsense looking name. It'll look like a blank doc and double-clicking will return an error. (note, iTMS must be up and the video you want fully loaded in iTunes for this file to be there).

Choose the file, change its file type and creator to MooV and TVOD respectively. They system STILL won't let you extract it, but it at least will show up as a Qucktime movie now, so double clicking will allow your to open it in QT. Once its open in QT, 'Save As' a different name to your desktop and you're done (you may need QT pro for this, not sure).

I figured this out by trial-and-error a few weeks ago to download a video I wanted. Figured Apple wouldn't mind as long as I'm not sharing the movie with anyone ... and it kept me from hogging their bandwidth with constant reloads of it.

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listen to eevyl as far as location/name for the file, I'm recounting this from memory right now. But, yes, it absolutely can be done
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[wataru]

Yes, but this is not the correct forum for this question.

[JKT]

The easy way to do it:

1. Have iTMS open and the video loaded.

2. Go to the Finder and press command-shift-G to get the Go To: dialogue.

3. Input /tmp and press enter. The Finder will open the invisible /tmp folder for you.

4. Navigate to the /501/TemporaryItems folder and the downloaded video will be called QTPluginTemp<number string>

5. Drag and drop that to e.g. the desktop, click the filename to rename it and stick .mov on the end. You now have a copy of the iTMS video that will open in Quicktime.


Note, your folder is /501/ if you are the administrator of the machine. If you aren't, then the folder will be 502 or 503 etc.

[fromthecloud]

There is an AppleScript to do this.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...40428183055735

[demograph68]

iGetMovies

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/mo...amp;vid=122772

[mdc]

igetmovies
click the button when the movie is downloaded in itunes and the program copies the file to your desktop.

[Truepop]

http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/s...rentmusicvideo

[drive-thru]

The way I do it is go to Finder, Command-F to searchand put in fields of...
Visisbility: Visible & Invisible
Date Created: Today
Size: > 10000 kB

Then there should be a file called QTPluginTemp#### which I drag to wherever I want and rename to a xxxx.mov

You will have to wait for the video to fully download and still keep the window open while you search and move the file (otherwise I think the Temp file gets deleted).

[ichad]

Nice one, searching for files larger than 1000K worked a treat!! cheers.

[tooki]

All iTunes threads (like all application threads) belong in the Software forum.

tooki