Downloading Online Videos

[Brother_Mujahid]

Does anyone know how one can download the video clips from MEMRI?

[Mustafa al-Muhaajir]

Applications used:
Mozilla Firefox (ver 1.5)
WM Recorder (ver 10.0) (www.wmrecorder.com)
(NB: They also have RM recorder available for recording streaming Real Media files)

Procedure:

1. Install WM Recorder and run the application.

http://www.upload2world.com/pic78/upload2world_44bc5.jpg (http://www.upload2world.com)


2. Go to MEMRI-TV (www.memritv.org) and select file you want to play.

http://www.upload2world.com/pic78/upload2world_09b6e.jpg (http://www.upload2world.com)


3. Click on "View Clip" of the video you wish to capture and download.


4. After clicking on "View Clip," you will get a pop-up window. When using Firefox, you will get the following message:

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5. Ignore the advisory message and click on "Play"


6. After you click on "Play," you will get a blank screen or the beginning of the video. Then, right click and choose "View Page Info" in Firefox.



7. After you select "View Page Info," click on the tab that says "Media." Under the column "Type" look for the type which is "Embedded". Copy the entire address location of the embedded file:



8. Copy the entire location of the file and then paste the location into URL section of WM Recorder. (Make sure that the "File" section is blank)

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9. After the location is pasted into "URL" field, click on "Record"

[Mustafa al-Muhaajir]

10. When recording has commenced, you will see the following and that means the file is being recorded.

http://www.upload2world.com/pic78/upload2world_9d85c.jpg (http://www.upload2world.com)

[Brother_Mujahid]

Jazak ullah khayr.