Downloading Videos Help Needed

[Malevolent]

So I need some help...I have some favorite music videos i want on my computer so i can watch them so i don't have to wait on MTV to watch them or stream them from the site...i hate the buffering...i was wondering since when i want to right click and save target as...its just a HTML link...How can get the file? the 20+ MB file of the video. I odn't have limewire don't want it because it degrades your HD and i don't like to P2P sharing and i know you can turn it off...i just don't want it...is there anyway i can do this?? I'ev been googling for hours and not finding anything...any help would be great

[Feba]

Re: Downloading Videos Help Needed

would help if you told us what kind of file the videos are. if they're in a page, that probably means embedded video, which means an FF plugin that saves youtube videos could work.

And no, Limewire doesn't "degrade your HD" any more than any other program.

[Malevolent]

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the videos they have on MTV.com those are the videos i'm after.

Speaking on the Limewire degrading HD stuff i have a desktop a few years back with a 80 gig HD and had limewire on there for 2 years and when i replaced it i when to go wipe it so i could sell the parts to friends family the HD would only hold upto 35gigs. Checked and re-checked for bugs defects and viruses and nothin was found...took it to my computer science prof and asked him what he thought was wrong and the 1st thing he asked me is if i downloaded music and vids from limewire, bearware, kazaa, sharezza etc...etc...of course i said yeah and he said its prolly because of those P2P programs...can't remmeber whatelse he said tho....

[Feba]

Re: Downloading Videos Help Needed

the videos they have on MTV.com those are the videos i'm after.

And you're expecting us to go to MTV and watch shitty music videos in order to help you?

There's no reason that a hard drive should refuse to write data unless it's defective.

[Malevolent]

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lol no if anyone knew away to download the file instead of the HTML code...

[Feba]

Re: Downloading Videos Help Needed

would help if you told us what kind of file the videos are.

waiting on you.

[Malevolent]

Re: Downloading Videos Help Needed

waiting on you.

care to explain more? their HTML based thats all i know and can figure out.... wouldn't know where else to look thats why i posted here for some help...and frankly you really havn't been of any.

How about I rephrase my question...

Anyone know of any good Video ripping/splicing/capturing programs?

[Feba]

Re: Downloading Videos Help Needed

html doesn't hold videos. Look at the page source, what kind of video is it?

[Malevolent]

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Source...

would i find that if i right clicked and hit properties?

[Mhurron]

Re: Downloading Videos Help Needed

Speaking on the Limewire degrading HD stuff i have a desktop a few years back with a 80 gig HD and had limewire on there for 2 years and when i replaced it i when to go wipe it so i could sell the parts to friends family the HD would only hold upto 35gigs.

Old motherboard, didn't support very large hard drives.

P2P reads and writes data to a disk, you normally read and write data to a disk. P2P does not degrade a disk. Also, professors may know a lot about theory (well you would hope they do) but that doesn't make them PC guru's.

[Heoki]

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Lol. It's hilarious that you or your professor would think that a P2P program would be what's causing your HD to read with less data then it has available. Your worst problem with a P2P program would probably be spyware and adware which if your smart you won't have that problem. Limewire did not hurt your hard drive at all I promise you. Something like playing a video game probably does more harm then Limewire.

A hard drive degrades a little bit each time you read or write from it, no matter what is reading or writing from it. It will eventually fail no matter how good it is. The reason it was showing less space was most likely because the computer you put it in did not support an 80GB HD or most likely you did something wrong when formatting. I'm sure it's an easy fix for that.

If you want your videos just get a P2P program and download them. Don't waste time with such extravagant methods of ripping them from streaming video. Besides if they wanted you to have them they would have a download link for them so basically ripping them from the site is probably stealing. Pretty much anyway you get them is probably stealing.

So, just get a P2P program, get your videos and live without your naive fear of hard drive failure.