Saving streamed videos to disk

[willyboy]

There is this website, www.1500videos.com, which has some great vintage music videos on it. These are shown onscreen as is and cannot be manipulated. Is there a way that these can be saved to hard disk as opposed to just viewed?

[maviscoull]

just had a look........great site !! but it doesnt look like it.....pity !!

[maviscoull]

ps......let me know if you find a way ! thanx

[:pagan:]

Try this m8

http://www.pimpfish.com/index.html

[fo3nix]

If that won't do it, it's pretty easy anyway.

1) open the video page in a new window. I chose "Adam Ant - Kings Of The Wild Frontier". Opening that link in a new window takes me here:
http://1500videos.com/movie.php?vid=LSSzlLfmpR E

Now view the source of that page. Towards the bottom you'll see a youtube address -- this is the video.

https://www.youtube.com/player2.swf?video_id=LS SzlLfmpRE&l=227&t=OEgsToPDskJ01kE6ZWxeA0NDLbKs HUdT&nc=16763904

Take the video_id value, up to the next '&' symbol:

LSSzlLfmpRE

To this string, add 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=', so that you get:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LSSzlLfmpRE

Copy this entire string into the box at keepvid, and download it there. Change the extension to .flv as it says on the site, and if you want to convert it (perhaps to a .avi) you can use the super converter. vlc player will play the .flv file.

[willyboy]

Nice little utility :pagan: Getting there slowly and I can now get pimpfish to download any one of the video url's which it saves as a .php file. That was the fairly easy part but l can't find a program to view it yet. I'll keep having a mess around, unless you know of one.
Will definately keep Pimpfish though as it seems quite useful.

[willyboy]

Many thanks fo3nix. That's answered the question!
:pagan: suggested pimpfish which l'm also having fun messing around with as it looks a nifty little utility. If this doesn't work l know that l can rely on your solution.
Thanks again.

[Garamond]

How about this one?

http://www.wmrecorder.com/

Simplicity itself.

[fo3nix]

I've just realised my idea was overly complex. How can I not have seen it?!

Take the URL of the new video that you opened in a new window:
http://1500videos.com/movie.php?vid=LSSzlLfmpR E

Put that into the box in keepvid, and then just change it from

http://1500videos.com/movie.php?vid=

to

http://youtube.com/watch?v=

And download. Saves going into the source and finding it there.

Finally, do you realise that all that site does is link to videos that are already on youtube? Just goto youtube and search for the videos you want, and then it's easy to put paste the youtube link into keepvid in the first place.

[willyboy]

Thanks Garamond - wmrecorder does it. Took me a few goes to figure it out, but once done, it is indeed simplicity itself to copy a video!
And thanks also to :pagan: and fo3nix for your prompt replies. Hope maviscoull is still with this thread as this now answers the original question.