Hi Jim and Max--
QuickTime Pro's "Save Source As" is no longer working for me-- not
just on Kevin's site. I thought that upgrading to v7.6 would restore
it, but not so. Perhaps QT "looks backs" to Apple for some service
component and its no longer being offered. Has anyone else with QT
Pro noticed this-- no "Save Source As" pull-down window when a QT
object loads in a browser window?
If so, this might portend some issues those of us who spend time
sharing media with others (more below).
Max, did you install and try iTunes? That's the "streamlining"
download service that Kevin's site is encouraging us to use.
Another QT-based work-around that usually works to copy the URL for
the QT embedded media file and paste that directly into QTPro (File->
Open URL). Once the media file fully loads, you can use "Save-As" to
save it on your computer. However, Kevin's CSS template hides the URL
in the source code of his site so this method is defeated. More and
more sites are doing this, intentionally or not. You can also use the
open URL trick in MPEG Streamclip which is cross-platform.
http://www.squared5 .com/
I suspect a big source of our recent downloading difficulties is the
"You Tube," etc video explosion and on-going efforts to protect these
media files from copying. Our audio gets affected as we "upgrade" to
new combo audio/video and browser apps.
The only other "solution" I know of is impermanent :-( and employs
recent downloading "extensions" within FireFox. The FireFox extension
that currently works for me on Kevin's site is called,
"FlashGotMedia" http://flashgot. net/features. There's a little movie
icon in the lower right corner of the FireFox browser page with a
progress bar. After you set the download location (which a prompt
should request as you install it) then click on the icon and it will
download it to the folder you selected. You need FireFox v3.5 and
QuickTime.
Below are some other FireFox extensions you can install and try. Most
of them are primarily for flash media but people use flash to embed
QT objects.
Fast Video Download 2.02
https://addons. mozilla.org/ en-US/firefox/ addon/3590
Video DownloadHelper
https://addons. mozilla.org/ en-US/firefox/ addon/3006
1-Click YouTube Video Download
https://addons. mozilla.org/ en-US/firefox/ addon/13990
To update your extensions in the future, go to this page and sort
them by "recent"
https://addons. mozilla.org/ en-US/firefox/ search?sort= newest&q= video&appid=
1&cat=0%2C0& tag=&atype= -1&pid=-1& lup=&lver= -1&pp
This predicament is probably going worsen with more propriety media
being sold or otherwise restricted on the internet. A codec is made
available "free" initially and then later, only through purchase. Its
unlikely iTunes will provide the free services like podcasts
indefinitely; all such applications are likely vulnerable. Its
ridiculous to have to rebuild one's web site because a corporation
changes their policies, but it shouldn't surprise us as lots of
people go to work everyday figuring out ways to make the internet
make money for them.
There are some open source media sharing tools that the profiteers
can't mess with like Ogg that we might want to start exploring. My
goal is a long(er) term solution so the work I intend to share, is
easily shareable.
I've played with Ogg some and I'm getting 2041 errors. Anyone getting
Ogg to encode for them on a PPC Mac (10.4.11)? Rob D.
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At 4:13 AM -0700 10/21/09, Jim Morgan wrote:
>Rob Danielson sent me some tips on how I might get itunes to play on
>my windows 2000 system but none would work for me.
>
>Thanks so much for trying Rob, I guess I need to update my old computer.
>
>Jim Morgan
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