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Downloading video
How do I download videos from this site:
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There is no free automatic way to download video from brightcove (which that site uses), and the manual way is difficult.
-Download and install Wireshark:
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-Close all programs that access the Internet except your browser.
-Go to the video you want to download. In the video player, go to Menu -> get link. Go to the link, which should be at brightcove.com. Stop the video.
-VERY IMPORTANT: you must now clear your cache. Search Google for "clear cache" and follow the instructions for your browser. If your cache is not cleared, this will not work.
-Start Wireshark. Go to Capture -> Interfaces. One of the interfaces will have an increasing number under "packets". Click "start" next to that one.
-After you have clicked start, go to the brightcove.com video page and click Refresh in your browser. Wait for the video to play for a few seconds, then stop Wireshark by going to Capture -> stop.
-In Wireshark, enter "http" (without quotes) into "filter" box.
-There should be a long, mostly green list in Wireshark now. If not, you did something wrong.
-You are looking for a particular entry in the list. It will be in this form:
GET /asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf
-Look in the URL after the GET for ".flv". The one with ".flv" is the one that you want. Here is an example:
GET /d6/unsecured/media/1155280030/1155280030_1873180084_katy-perry-int07-vid.flv?videoId=1873181441&lineUpId=1873841114&pubId=1155280030&playerId=1873832619&playerTag=&affiliateId= HTTP/1.1
-Notice that there is a .flv in the middle of that. Only the correct entry will have .flv in it.
-If there isn't any entry with .flv in it, then you did not clear your cache or you did not refresh the page.
-Now, click on the correct entry in Wireshark. In the bottom panel, expand "Hypertext Transfer Protocol". Right click the GET URL that you determined above, and select Copy -> bytes (printable text only).
-Paste what you just copied in notepad. Remove GET from the beginning everything after .flv from the end.
-Back in the bottom panel of Wireshark, look for "Host", underneath where you got the URL above. Put this at the beginning of the URL you just copied into notepad. A space should not separate them, and you should not copy any "r" or "n". A valid host is:
brightcove.vo.llnwd.net
-You now have your download URL. Here is an example of a final download URL:
brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d6/unsecured/media/1155280030/1155280030_1873180084_katy-perry-int07-vid.flv
-You can paste the URL into your browser if you want, but you will probably not be able to play it. It is in FLV format, which is not a typical format. To convert it, paste the URL into Step 1 here:
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For step 2, choose "mpg" or "wmv". For step 3, enter your email address. Zamzar will not spam you.
Done!
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