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bystander Member	# Posted: 19 Jul 2007 12:30 Reply What's the likelihood of being able to download video streams some time in the future? The annoying trend of putting things out on them seems to be growing, and it's my understanding that they do this to piss people off and prevent them from having local copies for smoother playback or user playback control. I don't have the world's most reliable internet connection, nor the fastest, and like the ability to view things when and where I want, without interruption or having the King of England get in my face.
arnij Admin	# Posted: 20 Jul 2007 19:16 Reply Hey bystander! Quite the prolific poster you are - I like it! ;) Now let's see here, well streams is something we have definitely been investigating in the past and have had our slimy tentacles out in the wilderness of the open source / hacking community out there in search of people with the needed expertise. The problem is that the main format used for streaming these days is windows media - and this format is in a special protocol (like http and ftp is a protocol, then mms is a special protocol) - As these things are then it is of course proprietary (Microsoft owns the planet if you hadn't noticed) - So it has been hard for us to get a grip on it. We are still working on it however, and I would say that I am cautiously optimistic that we would be able to support streams in the future. One easier format we could support would be the winamp shoutcast format - but as it is a bit of a "niche" community online and there already exist rather decent streamrippers for winamp we haven't focused much on that area. I hope that answers your question - and thanks for the support Regards, Arni J Zabersoft
bystander Member	# Posted: 25 Jul 2007 21:27 Reply Yeah, it does. I didn't know as much about the subject as you've revealed, but it occurred to me that it wasn't going to be a walk in the park, because as near as I can tell, the stream doesn't actually sit on your computer - it gets deleted just as soon as it's shown, or otherwise I should be able to find the thing sitting in my temp files like I can pictures that have right-clicking disabled (how dumb is that?).
arnij Admin	# Posted: 27 Jul 2007 07:30 Reply Yes, that's right - Streams "trickle in" to your machine and "run out" as soon as the video has been displayed on your screen. Also, streams are hardly ever designed to be stored on your harddisk - and thus the video data itself is often encoded in a special format, and would therefore also need transcoding to something else (like xvid, wmv or whatever) if you wanted it as a video file on your hdd. And yes I agree - right-click disabling is ... well... not cool ;) Later! Arni J Zabersoft Support
hello	# Posted: 25 Mar 2008 03:45 Reply hey you can find it in C:\Documents and Settings\Hichamk\My Documents\My Videos\DivX Movies unhide files should be in hiding directory inside although will not stay there after you close mozilla or explorer but updates seem to move it sometimes always just search for current day files used (with hiding files) As long you have not close the page of the upload. the search will find the file can watch it back with the divx player
arnij Admin	# Posted: 3 Apr 2008 12:32 Reply Hi, Yes this works with stage 6 videos (which is now defunct AFAIK) - But not with most other streams. Thanks for the comment though! Arni Zabersoft Support
DarqueAnjul	# Posted: 28 Jan 2009 12:10 Reply http://sdp.ppona.com/ If anybody is still interested in this, SDP may be able to help, it pulls mms files. But, it take however long the video is, then you can watch it local. To edit though you may have to run it through Windows Media Encoder.

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