Videodownloader
Every once in a while, I encounter an internet video so stunning and poignant, I really want to share with anyone who would appreciate. For some reason, kids doing amazing things fall into this category. Take for example this YouTube video of a nine year old playing Hugo's Impromptu in C-sharp minor.
On YouTube and all other video meccas, you can share the link, but it's difficult or impossible to download an actual movie file. This is the difference between streaming media and multimedia files like Mpegs, AVI's and other video formats. From the standpoint of the video web page like YouTube or MySpace, they have more control over the media (as if they deserve any) if they reserve the right to stream it only from their site. It's all about click revenue; the more they can get people coming back to the site, the more their advertising links are worth.
Streaming links point to server-side RealMedia(.rm), RealVideo (.ram) and other types of links that yield the final product a little at a time, like sipping pine sap through a thin straw. There is no "download" button that gets you a full file.
If you were able to simply package up the entire media into one large video file, you could share that without any requirement that the viewer return to the site from which it was sprung. You might be tempted to cry foul from a copyright standpoint, until you realize that the big video sites do not hold a copyright on the videos they house. They are much more like libraries than bookstores.
You can actually capture streaming video into a file, but up until now you had to pay for the privilege by purchasing software. Now comes the open source software VideoDownloader
in the v0.3 alpha release. Note that if you have an outbound firewall, you will have to give permission to VideoDownloader to access the streaming site. Here's a shot of the VD in action:
Just key or paste in the streaming site URL and click "Download," and the VideoDownloader goes to work collecting the stream into a file type of your choice.
Since I've been doing far too much raving in here lately, I have to pan something. I'll pick on the name. I would have liked to have seen a snazzier name, but I guess Open Source is not about marketing, not in the usual sense any way. Here's a couple of names to consider for the innovators of this great utility:
DreamStream
RealCapture
Got Stream?
YouToo (MeToo, MeTube)
"I don't want to and you can't make me"
MyTube
Clean Catch
Mike
On YouTube and all other video meccas, you can share the link, but it's difficult or impossible to download an actual movie file. This is the difference between streaming media and multimedia files like Mpegs, AVI's and other video formats. From the standpoint of the video web page like YouTube or MySpace, they have more control over the media (as if they deserve any) if they reserve the right to stream it only from their site. It's all about click revenue; the more they can get people coming back to the site, the more their advertising links are worth.
Streaming links point to server-side RealMedia(.rm), RealVideo (.ram) and other types of links that yield the final product a little at a time, like sipping pine sap through a thin straw. There is no "download" button that gets you a full file.
If you were able to simply package up the entire media into one large video file, you could share that without any requirement that the viewer return to the site from which it was sprung. You might be tempted to cry foul from a copyright standpoint, until you realize that the big video sites do not hold a copyright on the videos they house. They are much more like libraries than bookstores.
You can actually capture streaming video into a file, but up until now you had to pay for the privilege by purchasing software. Now comes the open source software VideoDownloader
in the v0.3 alpha release. Note that if you have an outbound firewall, you will have to give permission to VideoDownloader to access the streaming site. Here's a shot of the VD in action:
Just key or paste in the streaming site URL and click "Download," and the VideoDownloader goes to work collecting the stream into a file type of your choice.Since I've been doing far too much raving in here lately, I have to pan something. I'll pick on the name. I would have liked to have seen a snazzier name, but I guess Open Source is not about marketing, not in the usual sense any way. Here's a couple of names to consider for the innovators of this great utility:
DreamStream
RealCapture
Got Stream?
YouToo (MeToo, MeTube)
"I don't want to and you can't make me"
MyTube
Clean Catch
Mike
Labels: capture, Open Source, ram, realvideo, rm, streaming, utility, video
posted by Michael Moore @ 5:34 AM
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