Jordan, While there may be some hack or loophole that could make this happen for you, I think you just have to accept the fact that the movies you are trying to download were specifically set up for on-line streaming. As Todd has pointed out, the site does not want to allow the downloading of the movies locally. This ability to let you see it, but not take it home, is one of the most attractive control mechanisms of audio and visual streaming.
The only way for you to be sure that a link brings you to a dowloadable file is to try to save its target locally. If is works, you have what you want. If it gives you a placeholder, as in this case, that's what the provider intended and the only way you are going to get past this it to hack the site or see if you can get permission to acquire the file. I hate bumping into this, too, but... T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jordan Elver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files Yep, I can find the file it downloads, but like Todd said, it only downloads a place holder image while the actual movie does not. I'll try and find a fix, Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 8:15 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:32, Jordan Elver wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime > > movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is > > the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. > > > > I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into > > wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? > > > > Am I being stupid or what? > > > > Thanks for any help, Cheers, > > Jord > > -- > > Jordan Elver > > http://www.jordanelver.co.uk > > "Save it for my unauthorized autobiography." --- Larry Wall > > Tis rather strange - and you've done a "find" or a "locate" on the > filename and that returned nothing as well? -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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