Re: Windows Movie Maker Internet Archive
Lee Lucario
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker\BrowseForPicturesDirectory
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker\BrowseForProjectsDirectory
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker\RenderToFileDirectory
These are all REG_SZ types and should be set with a value of a drive letter that the user can hit, probably their home directory drive. So use I:\ or whatever, you can probably set it to I:\My Videos if you wanted.
I was having the same problem. With only 1Gb left on my C drive I did not have the room to copy full tapes of data over. I figured out how to solve this problem. Unfortunately it does not seem that you can change the default directory (There might be in the registry), but there is an easier way to change where it saves to.
If you hate windows movie maker - newer version - you can find versions 2.6 and 2.1 that will both run on windows 7 all can be used (one at a time). you have to uninstall windows live essentials and then install 2.1 - copy it from windows xp windows directory, then install 2.6, then go back and reinstall windows live essentials with the new version.
First, Zimit 1.x is relying on a technical solution named Service Workers which limits the readers capable to display the ZIM produced (only kiwix-android, kiwix-serve and kiwix-js ; note that kiwix-desktop on Windows and Linux can start a kiwix-serve for you).
If your use-case match all these limitations, it is clearly the quickest solution to get a ZIM (even if the processing capabilities are limited and your job might end-up in a waiting queue for few hours).
It should be noted for now advanced use of zimit.kiwix.org requires some technical skills and expert knowledge to configure the advanced options. This process should be enhanced in 2024 to provide more explanations and guide the user in the configuration process.
wget-2-zim is a simple bash script based on wget with some nifty tricks that can be used to archive websites on the internet. It comes with very very limited ability to deal with Javascript (compared to Zimit for instance) but works very well for websites composed mostly of HTML/CSS files. Contrary to Zimit 1.x scraper, it does not requires Service Workers to read the resulting ZIM which is hence compatible with all ZIM readers.
MWoffliner is a tool which allows to "dump" a Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, ...) to a local storage. It should also work for any Mediawiki instance. It goes through all articles (or a selection if specified) of the project and write HTML/pictures to your local filesystem as plain HTML/JS/CSS/... files or in a ZIM file.
zimwriterfs is a console tool to create ZIM files from a locally stored directory containing a "self-sufficient" HTML content (with pictures, javascript, stylesheets). The result will contain all the files of the local directory compressed and merged in the ZIM file. Nothing more, nothing less. For now, zimwriterfs only works on POSIX compatible systems. You simply need to compile it and run it. The software does not need a lot of resources, but if you create a pretty big ZIM files, then it could take a while to complete. Instructions on how to prepare and use zimwriterfs are here zimwriterfs_instructionsGo to zimwriterfs source code repository.
If you have developments skills, you can create your own tool to create a ZIM from your content. This is what is called it a scraper, even if most of them do not "scrape" a website but used specific techniques like APIs or exported databases.
The following description is based on the notes published by the original author of Zimbalaka, as they're no longer available on the site they were published on. An archived copy is available on archive.org ://www.arunmozhi.in:80/blog/zimbalaka-an-openzim-creator/#content
It accepts two types of inputs: a list of pages or a Wikipedia category. Then Zimbalaka downloads those pages, removes all the clutter such as: sidebars, toolbox, edit links, etc., and provides a cleaned version as a ZIM file for download. It can be opened in Kiwix, etc.
Zimbalaka has multilingual and multi-site support. That is, you can create a ZIM file from pages of any language of the 280+ existing Wikipedias, and also from sites like WikiBooks, Wiktionary, Wikiversity and such. You can even input any custom url like ( ), Zimblaka would add (/wiki/Page_title) to it and download the pages.
You cannot include pages from multiple sites as a single zim file. The workaround is to create multiple files or use a tool called zimwriterfs, which has to be compiled from source (this is used by zimbalaka behind the scenes).
The zimmer package allows creating a ZIM dump from a Mediawiki-based wiki. This package is relatively easy to install and supports both old and new versions of Mediawiki. It is a kind of an alternative to MWoffliner.
Unfortunately RARlabs, the maker of WinRAR, only offers commandline tools for Mac users. The RAR file format is controlled byRARlabs and they only allow 3rd party tools to extract RARfiles, not create them. That is why you don't see the option tocreate RAR files in most archive tools (except their ownWinRAR). This guide will show you how to simplify RAR archivecreations on the Mac. Just a simple click in the Finder!
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