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Thread #38629   Message #544130
Posted By: Jim Dixon
06-Sep-01 - 11:38 PM
Thread Name: Tech: How to download/save Realplayer videos?
Subject: RE: Help: How to download/save Realplayer videos?
Save the target of the link (In IE Windows, right-click on it and click "Save Target As" Choose a handy destination like your desktop. If the file you saved has the extension ".ram" open that file in a text editor (like Notepad).

I did that. The file I saved was called play.rbn.ram. When I opened the file, this is what I saw:

rtsp://g2-lvl3-pa28.rbn.com/star/star/g2demand/video/variety/klezmer.rm
--stop--
pnm://g2-lvl3-pa28.rbn.com/star/star/g2demand/video/variety/klezmer.rm

You'll see one or more URLs listed there. Copy the URL from the .ram file and make a link (blue clicky) out of it in a new text editor (Notepad) window. Save this file with the extension .html to your desktop. For example, you could call it test.html.

I did this, but I'm not sure I know what you mean by URL. Does the URL include the expression "rtsp:"? This is the first time I have seen one that didn't begin with "http:". To cover all the bases, I made 3 clickies, one beginning with "rtsp:", one beginning with "pnm:" and one beginning with "http:". Here they are:

rtsp clicky

pnm clicky

http clicky

I figure it should work just as well in a Mudcat thread as it does in an .html file on my desktop, right?