[vox-tech] how to download a video file without an url

Ted Deppner vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:09:04 -0700


On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:26:53PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=mym2002

Dig through the file, sometimes you'll find references to a real video
file.

Otherwise, use mencoder (from mplayer) to grab the stream (you'll need to
dig to find the embedded url, mencoder won't follow a playlist type file
like mplayer will)... not perfect, but it comes close.

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Ted Deppner
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