Okay, I just watched an amazing video of a Norco Factory Team trials demo featuring Kris. It’s several minutes long and really entertaining but it only let me watch it on a site. The address is in the form of www.whatever-it-is.html and I can’t figure out how to save a copy onto the computer. It’s a Quicktime file. It’s got the option for saving it but it’s greyed out or whatever you call it so I can’t click on it. When I close the page for a few hours and came back again it played instantly so surely there must be something saved somewhere. Can anyone please help me? It took ages to download.
The link to the .mov file is in the page source; put a link to it somewhere else (in a post, web page, email (you don’t have to send it)) and save it as normal.
The above video is 28MB, mind. I have it already from last year when I had a network connection to the university… but alas, now I am an ex-studenty type with a likkle modem…
Thanks a lot Phil, you’ve always got a solution to my computer problems. One of my questions still remains…why is it that when I revisited the site it loaded instantly and also, why is this taken the normal long time to download? I don’t get it.
A page source is the HTML code for a webpage. To view it, right click on the page, and choose view source. This makes it very easy for people to copy and steal HTML source codes, so on some pages they disable right clicking.
When you load something, it is often stored in temporary internet files, somewhere in your windows directory. I don’t know how to find the particular file you are looking for, perhaps search for files named trialsdemo.mov and if you are lucky it might be under that name. Otherwise it’s a long wait downloading it again if you’re on dial up.
The QuickTime player has the option to save the MOV file in your browsers disk cache.
Open the QuickTime player
Edit >> Preferences >> QuickTime Preferences
Select “Browser Plug-in” in the dropdown listbox
Put a checkmark next to “Save movies in disk cache”
After QuickTime saves the movie to the browsers disk cache you can copy the MOV file out of the disk cache.
In Internet Explorer you can access the disk cache by:
Tools >> Internet Options
Select the “General” tab
Click the “Settings…” button
Click the “View Files…” button