OT Real PLayer

Hi.

I apologise for this OT post and if someone could direct me to a more
appropriate newsgroup I will more than grateful.

I just signed up the real one super pass to access the pop idol content. Now
I want to know where this is saved so I can have the files on my hard drive
for quick viewing?

Cheers

Dan

On 21/9/03 1:50 pm, in article 3f6d9ee1$0$246$(E-Mail Removed),
"dA mAn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I apologise for this OT post and if someone could direct me to a more
> appropriate newsgroup I will more than grateful.
>
> I just signed up the real one super pass to access the pop idol content. Now
> I want to know where this is saved so I can have the files on my hard drive
> for quick viewing?
>
AFAIK, Real Player only streams content unless the creator permits a "save"
feature. This is obviously designed to stop people watching once and then
copying it all over the shop.

If it does exist, it'll probably be in a windows/temp subdirectory with a
long unintelligible title, but its very likely that on closing down Real
Player, it'll trash its temp files.

If you watch the BBC news on Real player, then watch it again, it re-streams
the content rather than playing a locally stored file, which suggests there
is no local cached copy.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:24:18 GMT, Graham in Melton wrote
> On 21/9/03 1:50 pm, in article
> 3f6d9ee1$0$246$(E-Mail Removed), "dA mAn" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:


>> I just signed up the real one super pass to access the pop idol
>> content. Now I want to know where this is saved so I can have the
>> files on my hard drive for quick viewing?

> AFAIK, Real Player only streams content unless the creator permits
> a "save" feature. This is obviously designed to stop people
> watching once and then copying it all over the shop.

You can capture any audio stream with something like Total Recorder;
I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for video streaming.

--
Cheers, Harvey

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:55:02 +0100, Harvey Van Sickle
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>You can capture any audio stream with something like Total Recorder;
>I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for video streaming.

I've experimented with this using Lotus Screencam with variable
success. It can record some types of content as entire screen
captures, either with or without audio. Expect large files...

I *think* success it may depend on how the streaming app does its
screen/video memory updates (which itself maybe something to do with
DirectX ? Anyone know?)