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by nhiep_nguyen

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Hello,

I am using my laptop with VistaOS Home Edition Premium.
I happen to watch Video from various website on my laptop and would like to know if there is a way to record what is playing on the computer screen.
Thank you for any help you could provide me with.

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by older mycroft

Unfortunately I cannot speak for IE6 or IE7 as I utterly detest Microsoft internet browsers.

However, if you are using Firefox you can make use of the Add-On known as [b]Media Pirate 2.3[/b].

Just grab it from the Firefox Add-Ons page, restart Firefox and a little globe with a downward-pointing arrow (greyed-out) will appear on your top menu bar.

Whenever you visit a site like YouTube, the greyed-out icon will light up in green and blue colours. Choose your video, click on the icon, a new browser page will open for Media Pirate, click on the Orange Downward-pointing arrow, click on 'Save' in the dialogue box, and watch the video-file download.

You can watch the streaming video while the video file downloads.

One word of advice: wherever you elect to save the video-file to, chosen when the dialogue box opens, the resulting saved video-file will be called [b]getvideo[/b] WITHOUT any DOT or extension.

Using the file manager of your choice, navigate to where you saved the file, right click it and 'rename' it to a suitable title with a DOT and the extension of [b]flv[/b]

The extension MUST be FLV so that it can be recognised as a Flash Video file. You can find programs to convert the file format if you need them converted.

Personally I just watch the video files with [b]GOMplayer[/b] which can handle FLV files by default. You can download it from here:

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

Download, sit back and enjoy. :)

by nhiep_nguyen

Thank you very much.
I've added it to Firefox that I use and the greyed-out globe with the downward arrow is installed on the menu bar all right.
However when I go to a site (which is not youtube)for exemple msnbc.com and click on one of them video, it opens in the window media player (which exhibits the greyed-out globe as well) but none of the globes is turning green!
From youtube it works OK, but that site is not my regular.
I am especially interested in downloading sample streams of video so that I could watch them before deciding on eventual purchase.
Thank you for your help (and for any further information)

by nhiep_nguyen

I've tried it but it works on a few web sites only.
There might be a work around on which I would like to have your opinion.
In order to view off line I let the download finish while viewing the video then have my computer hibernate.
When I resume window the video is still ther.
So it must be in some caches or temporary files that we may save apart if one could know where they are.
Anyone has an idea where the temporary files when viewing video is stored?
Thanks

by heberoman

The temporary file usually will be saved after you finish palying the video to its conclusion. Open IE browser tools>internet options> history browsing-view files> usually the latgest size file is the video you have just watched.

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