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I give up.
I have a website link that ends in .asx that plays a streaming video that's about 3.5 hours long. I am trying to download and save as a video file a 5 minute piece of that stream. Can anyone recommend the best/easiest/dummyproofiest/free way to do this? I will download/install any free software necessary. I am running Windows XP. Thanks.
there is a frame rate difference between NTSC and PAL. So changing that pref would effect where the edits were. So if the software says "this clips starts at 12 min 3 sec 10 frames", that could be at two completely different locations, hence "completely messed up the clips".
Kudos to you for finding that! I wouldn't have thought of it off the top of my head, as I never really change that pref.
omnis, the weird this is that the video I'm editing actually *is* PAL, that's why I changed the iMovie options. But iMovie only appears to work properly for me in NTSC, so I've had to leave it like that.
Wolfram, do you have a link to the file you're trying to download?
that is curious Kevin. I think iMovie imports rather then just edits. I'm guessing it converted it to NTSC when you first imported the video. When did you initially change the preference? Before importing? Before editing? Just curious. The one thing I'm not a fan of with iMovie is, it keeps all your 'clips' there, like iPhoto. I'd rather each project it's own, and not have the GUI confused with past imports from the camera.
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I'm really just trying to get the stream from 03:05:50 to 03:10:10. (It's a friend of mine playing on the chabad telethon.)
Wolfram, I've spent a while trying to rip that video with mplayer/mencoder and failed. It normally works, I've done it before, but mplayer is not liking that file..
Kevin, thanks a ton for trying! I really appreciate it.
Wolfram,
it looks like I can save it on a mac. If I let it play I can save it as a quicktime movie - using firefox and a firefox plugin.
Do you have access to a mac?
Hubby runs Firefox 3.0.3 on Vista, and whenever he opens his computer, he gets a box that wants to connect to Broadband. He has turned off his wireless connection, and this box also pops up on a regular basis while he's working on the Net on a wired connection. He wants to get rid of this box. What options should he be looking at?
Le nubian, I can find someone who does. But let me know what software you're using to do it first, and maybe I can find an equivalent on the PC to make it a quicktime movie. Otherwise, I'll coerce a local mac friend to do it.
Thanks for helping!