Streaming video question

[LucharesuFan619]

I'm trying to download a streaming video file to my computer. It's a WMV format video. Usually what I'll do is right click on the video as its playing and click Properties. That'll bring up a box that gives the actual url of the video, i.e. http://www.whatever.com/whatever/whatever.wmv, and then I'll put a link to that address in a Frontpage document, right click, and download it no problem. But this particular streaming video file isn't http://www.whatever.com/whatever/whatever.wmv, it's mms://www.whatever.com/whatever/whatever.wmv . When I try to right click and Save the Target, I get an error message. Is there a way to download this type of file to your hard drive, or am I wasting my time trying to figure it out? Thanks in advance.

[Jobber of the Week]

MMS is Microsoft Media Services.

 

You can download the WMV file if you want, usually. However, it's only a small 2K or so file that points the player to the streaming server that the video is hosted on. So you don't actually download the video, just a pointer to it. It's streaming, so you can't right-click save-as and watch it on your hard drive while offline or after the server deletes the video.

[LucharesuFan619]

Damn. OK, thanks.

[Dimensions]

I'm pretty sure if you search, you'll find a streaming video recorder.

 

I had one before to download video from WWE.com back in the day.