Saving Quick-time files.

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Okay, so you know how on some pages they have quicktime movies that you can view (no not porn, I'm actually thinking about some stuff on the Vice page: http://www.viceland.com/issues/v9n4/htdocs/touching.php), but it's in a pop-up window so you can't right-click on it so "save target as"? Does anyone know if/how you can actually save files like that?

― Dan I., Saturday, 16 November 2002 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't believe you can save these files. However they may be a temp file version of these files somewhere on your computer, in the browser cache maybe.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 16 November 2002 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have QuickTime Pro there's a save as feature for all that stuff.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 16 November 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

sean OTM

you can try viewing source of yr pop-up window and seeing what the URL of the Quicktime movie is, pasting that into a new browser window and then trying to do a "save as"... if that doesn't work you can download one of those "pagesucker" apps that download whole websites for you: point its powerful ray of pagesuckingness at the URL you've copied from the source of the pop-up window

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 16 November 2002 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm guessing you're using Internet Explorer as your browser (but I don't think that would make a difference). So, do a Find File, and search in "C:\Windows\Temporary Internet files", then in the find field type in *.mov and look for the right file, either by name or size etc.

― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 17 November 2002 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, you can view the source of the HTML document in which the Quicktime is embedded, find the URL of the content itself (unless it's being streamed from some sort of proprietary server), and download it using "wget". (or create an HTML file with a link to that URL, and then right-click/save as...)

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 17 November 2002 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

THANX

― DAn I., Monday, 18 November 2002 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

balls. how do I restore Quick Time files that come up with bad filename errors?

(will try and be more specific hang on...)

― eh (fandango), Sunday, 1 October 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

we're hangin' ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 1 October 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

error -37 a bad filename or volume name was encountered

>:(

― eh (fandango), Sunday, 1 October 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

okay I changed the bloody filename.

― eh (fandango), Sunday, 1 October 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

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