cool said:
I have "RealPlayer" on my computer and everything I download goes straight to
real
player library.
Do XP have a program where you can download items to , in order to go back and
possibly burn them to DVD ?
Also , Without using RealPlayer , where and how do I save / send items I want
to download ?
I guess I should have asked first , but is there a way to download items in
XP
without using an outside software ?
THANK YOU , for any help or advice you can give me , in order to solve my
dilema
You can use a web browser to download files. Right click on a link, and
choose "Save As" for example. This works for vanilla files, like a file
that someone wants you to have with no fuss.
Web sites may also offer to "stream" a video to you. That is not an
ordinary file. If you right click and choose "Save As", you could very
well end up with a tiny "stub" file, which is a recipe for streaming,
and not the actual streamed content.
For whatever reason, streaming sites feel that you should not (easily)
be able to take a copy of their video. If they wanted you to have a
file for later use, they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of
setting up the streaming structure. This typically pisses off the
users, who don't wish to be shackled to some web site.
There are tools available, for taking a copy of a streamed movie.
So there are ways around it. No one tool will be able to make a
copy under all circumstances, as the web sites will throw up one
kind of roadblock or another along the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_recorder
As an example of a difficult problem, there are web TV offerings
where only a particular country is allowed access. If I wanted to
see some BBC web TV, my IP address must indicate I'm in that country.
Even if I used a stream recorder program, that would not change
the fact that my IP address is from the wrong country. Sometimes,
this can be solved by using a proxy server located in that country,
a proxy server that can hide the true IP address. But depending
on the protocol used, the player software may have a feature to
report the local IP address to the server, so you may still
"have your cover blown" if trying to use such a web site.
There are many tricks, and countless hours to waste, in trying
to snag content. It all depends on whether you "live and die" for
video, as to whether it is worthwhile wasting time and dollars
dealing with it.
A screen recorder would be another way to solve the problem,
and when doing that, you'd connect a recording device as if
it was a second monitor on your computer. That requires playing
the video, such that it is displayed on the second monitor.
Even this method is not foolproof - the following thread
explains how Nvidia has disabled video mirroring, which might
be used as a way to display to a second monitor output connector.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?act=ST&f=33&t=29212
This is an example of a recording device. In terms of raw
hardware, I was impressed at this thing. But it is hobbled
by plenty of mean-spiritedness.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/techspecs/
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/manuals/eng/IntensityManual.pdf
Devices like that, have to comply with content protection laws. That
recorder has restrictions on the maximum resolution it can record
from HDMI. There is in fact, a more capable chip they could have
used - but if they installed that chip, they'd be dragged into
court. The HDMI part of the card is likely a waste of time.
It doesn't and cannot support HDCP. The card should also respect
any "copy protection" bits, so on some source devices, you'd be
prevented from making a copy.
The analog capture might work. I don't know how many mechanisms
there are, for implementing copy protection on there. (We've all
heard of "Macrovision", and many chips have macrovision detection
built in - it is sometimes triggered for the wrong reasons, such
as an unstable video source.)
Analog capture is not "bit perfect", and the resolution might
not be quite as high, but I expect you could do a decent job of
recording if nothing is there to prevent it.
So while that thing could be a fine piece of hardware, the
laws surrounding it, could make it almost useless.
I notice in the manual, they don't show which cables to use on
the breakout, for component video. Must have been an oversight...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YPrPb
YPrPb = Y, B-Y, R-Y
To connect, you'd need a way to get YPrPb from the computer
video card.
Not that many years ago, you'd see more of this kind of thing.
I'm not sure component video output is as common as it used to
be. I don't know if the output is still there, and they
aren't providing the cable. Or whether they've just removed
component output.
http://www.techlore.com/imagelib/co...0c5bc-11fa9e99463--c63-629844977-w580h580.jpg
So there is the odd roadblock or two.
HTH,
Paul
