video recorder

rlnd · 08-12-2006, 09:10 AM

I cannot record on my H.D. the video trailer below.
How can I do ? Thanks a lot.

http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/ha...eet_h.i480.mov

pwc101 · 08-12-2006, 09:17 AM

do you mean watch the video? or record as in save it to your hard drive? please explain a little more clearly. thanks

rlnd · 08-12-2006, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwc101

do you mean watch the video? or record as in save it to your hard drive? please explain a little more clearly. thanks

I can see it.....I cannot save it on my H.D...........

pwc101 · 08-13-2006, 04:51 AM

that's a function of your browser then. If you're using firefox, then click on the link (the one you've posted should work) and hit "Save Link As" and then navigate to where you want to save it to, such your home directory.

I don't really use any other browsers, but I tried copying and pasting in the whole address into Konqueror, and the first thing it did was ask me where I wanted to save it to.

If you can't get any of the above to work, you could always use wget from the command line (a terminal or konsole):

Code:

wget http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/happy_feet/happy_feet_h.i480.mov -P ~/

will save it your home directory.

Hope this helps.

rlnd · 08-13-2006, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by pwc101

..... you could always use wget from the command line (a terminal or konsole):

Code:

wget http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/happy_feet/happy_feet_h.i480.mov -P ~/

will save it your home directory.

Hope this helps.

Sorry, the file you get cannot be read by no players ! (mplayer,kaffeine,vlc....)

pwc101 · 08-13-2006, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by rlnd

I can see it.....I cannot save it on my H.D...........

I must have misunderstood you. When you said "I can see it", I assumed that you were able to watch the video and when you said "I cannot save it on my H.D" that you couldn't save the file to you hard drive.

If you can't play the video, you probably don't have the correct codec installed, in which case you need to install it. I see you have mplayer installed, in which case you need to install the codec pack (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...60611.tar.bz2).

Good luck

rlnd · 08-13-2006, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwc101

I must have misunderstood you. When you said "I can see it", I assumed that you were able to watch the video and when you said "I cannot save it on my H.D" that you couldn't save the file to you hard drive.

If you can't play the video, you probably don't have the correct codec installed, in which case you need to install it. I see you have mplayer installed, in which case you need to install the codec pack (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...60611.tar.bz2).

Good luck

You had hunderstood fine,I can see this trailer.
What is not visible is the file dumped with "wget" .
Anyway I've this file in //tmp folder that can be read perfectly fine.
Many thanks.

pwc101 · 08-14-2006, 02:26 AM

glad you sorted it then