How to save this movie?

[johnny bobby bee]

DaveC typed:

>
> Saving w/Safari gets me a blank window when I reopen it. How can I save it
> for future playing?
>
> Mac OS X 10.3.2; Safari 1.1.1

use netscape, mozilla or firebird as your browser, then look in their
'cache' folder for the movie. it won't be labled with a .mov extension,
but just empty the cache before you visit the site, then it'll be the
largest file in the 'cache' folder. drag the file to your desktop and
rename it to whatever.mov - that should work.

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[Davoud]

DaveC:

> http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm
>
> This isn't streamed, per se, but downloaded first and then played. It doesn't
> play within a traditional QT window, so I don't see any controls or menus
> containing "Save as movie" option.
>
> I know it's not streamed because I can unplug my network, cable and play this
> over and over.

>
> Saving w/Safari gets me a blank window when I reopen it. How can I save it
> for future playing?
>
> Mac OS X 10.3.2; Safari 1.1.1
>

> Thanks,

You can play it over and over because it's in your Safari cache. I
don't know how you would go about retrieving it from there; my cache is
turned off (via Safari Enhancer).

This is not a "movie" per se, but an animated slide show made with
Shockwave Flash (SWF). You might want to Google for a way to retrieve
it from cache.

If I liked that SWF show -- which I don't particularly, because of the
crude graphics -- I would simply go to the Hubble site, download the
high-resolution images, and use iMovie or QuickTime Pro to make my own
version. It would be much better than the somewhat crude SWF version. I
could capture the audio from the SWF version using Audio Hijack and
re-use it in my own QuickTime version, but I would be more likely to
use GarageBand to make my own soundtrack.

Davoud

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[Steve W. Jackson]

In article <0001HW.BC4A82B1...@news.individual.net>,
DaveC <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

:> http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm

:>
:> This isn't streamed, per se, but downloaded first and then played.
:> It doesn't play within a traditional QT window, so I don't see any
:> controls or menus containing "Save as movie" option.
:>
:> I know it's not streamed because I can unplug my network, cable and
:> play this over and over.
:>
:> Saving w/Safari gets me a blank window when I reopen it. How can I
:> save it for future playing?
:>
:> Mac OS X 10.3.2; Safari 1.1.1
:>
:> Thanks,

To begin with, that's a Flash animation. When I visited it in Netscape
(and with an appropriate plugin installed), the name of the actual file
(ending with .swf) was the title of my browser window. And the actual
file is in the same place that I've previously learned to look for
QuickTime images. Specifically, look in the /tmp directory. There,
you'll find another directory representing your unique UID number (your
first account gets 501, then 502, etc.) -- but it'll show up as owned by
your short user name. Inside there is a TemporaryItems directory, and
therein lies a "plugtmp" directory containing the file. You can copy it
to your home directory using the "cp" command in Terminal and it'll play
just great in the QuickTime player.

It seems that in Safari, it puts the file directly in the /tmp directory
with some odd name made up as it's streamed in. In my case, it was
named "WebKitPlugInStreamZznlyO". However, that file doesn't seem to
want to open with my Quicktime Player...YMMV.

= Steve =
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[TheMartian]

DaveC wrote:

> http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm
>
> This isn't streamed, per se, but downloaded first and then played. It doesn't
> play within a traditional QT window, so I don't see any controls or menus
> containing "Save as movie" option.
>
> I know it's not streamed because I can unplug my network, cable and play this
> over and over.
>
> Saving w/Safari gets me a blank window when I reopen it. How can I save it
> for future playing?
>
> Mac OS X 10.3.2; Safari 1.1.1
>
> Thanks,

open a terminal session (Its in applications/utilities) and type the
following

wget "wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.swf"

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[Jonathan Brady]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:00:12 -0500, TheMartian wrote
(in article <c03n5s$12r3u7$1...@ID-216756.news.uni-berlin.de>):

> open a terminal session (Its in applications/utilities) and type the
> following

Panther does not come with wget. It comes with curl instead so the
command should be:

curl -G "http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/0308
11-hubble.swf" > hubble.swf

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[jpmcwilliams]

Steve W. Jackson wrote:
> In article <0001HW.BC4A82B1...@news.individual.net>,
> DaveC <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> :> http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm
> :>
> :> This isn't streamed, per se, but downloaded first and then played.
> :> It doesn't play within a traditional QT window, so I don't see any
> :> controls or menus containing "Save as movie" option.
> :>
> :> I know it's not streamed because I can unplug my network, cable and
> :> play this over and over.
> :>
> :> Saving w/Safari gets me a blank window when I reopen it. How can I
> :> save it for future playing?
> :>
> :> Mac OS X 10.3.2; Safari 1.1.1
> :>
> :> Thanks,
>
>
> To begin with, that's a Flash animation. When I visited it in Netscape
> (and with an appropriate plugin installed), the name of the actual file
> (ending with .swf) was the title of my browser window. And the actual
> file is in the same place that I've previously learned to look for
> QuickTime images. Specifically, look in the /tmp directory. There,
> you'll find another directory representing your unique UID number (your
> first account gets 501, then 502, etc.) -- but it'll show up as owned by
> your short user name. Inside there is a TemporaryItems directory, and
> therein lies a "plugtmp" directory containing the file. You can copy it
> to your home directory using the "cp" command in Terminal and it'll play
> just great in the QuickTime player.
>

With Netscape, Mozilla, and Thunderbird, you just have to open the
cache, and then guess the right file, which is often dead easy when you
sort by time or size. This one is 3.2 Megs, and is "7F54A67Dd01".
However, drag 7F54A67Dd01 to the DT, and change the name to, say,
Hubble.swf in Panter, and you've got a Flash animation that opens right
up in QT.

John McWilliams

[John Biltz]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:55:29 -0800, DaveC wrote
(in message <0001HW.BC4A82B1...@news.individual.net>):

I don't know if this will work or not but what I normally do for
streaming media is play it then drag it to the desktop. Worth a shot,
its a lot easier than the other options.

[Bill Leeper]

DaveC wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 22:59:43 -0800, John Biltz wrote
> (in article <0001HW.BC4B1E5F...@news.west.cox.net>):

>
>
>>I don't know if this will work or not but what I normally do for streaming
>>media is play it then drag it to the desktop. Worth a shot, its a lot
>>easier than the other options.
>
>

> Nothing to drag. I try to drag, but nothing moves, nothing appears on the
> desktop.

Try the curl -G suggestion that was posted earlier. I tried it last
night and it worked fine. You may have to run find to see where it is
saved but that is no big deal either.

Bill

[Peter KERR]

>
> http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm
>

Just to pour some cold water ;-) I don't like the music,
the crossfading & panning is crude and annoying,
and all the images are available at nasa.gov
in huge hi-res formats...

Some analysts predict GWB's budget deficits will
scuttle or seriously defer the Mars effort,
and Hubble will still fall off the breadboard :-(

[StovePipe]

What happens if you drag the _movie_ file over the QT icon? If it
darkens, you should be able to play it. Otherwise, try to Imoprt it into
a new QT player window?
HTH
Stephen D

DaveC <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:18:09 -0800, Jason Parrish wrote
> (in article <jparrish-C4DE93...@enews.newsguy.com>):
>
> > I went to <http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.swf> and after
> > it fully lioaded I could do a Save As to my desktop. A doubleclick on the
> > resulting swf file opened the movie in QT Player.
>
> When I do that, I get a dialog that says "You can't save this page with a
> .swf suffix. You can either use .html or .swf.html." When I save it as
> either, I get a blank page that opens in Safari.

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[Steve W. Jackson]

In article <fjhVb.195659$Rc4.1657461@attbi_s54>,
jpmcwilliams <jp...@comcast.net> wrote:

Not so with my Netscape 7.1. I've had caching turned off as of ages
ago, once I read some article about how performance was better without
it on broadband. I found that to be true and disabled caching in
Netscape and Internet Explorer both, though I seldom use IE. Safari,
which I rarely use since it won't let me control cookies well enough,
doesn't have such a setting.