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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: woody on September 30, 2007, 20:28:24

Title: IT help needed
Post by: woody on September 30, 2007, 20:28:24

ok
i could do with this piece of video as a teaching aid
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/774922/great_shadow_puppetry/

this is a fantastic piece of shadow puppetry
how do i download it or copy it to my computer

Title: IT help needed
Post by: Wolfie on September 30, 2007, 20:34:21

Er......

Click on the "download" link to the right of the video window.

Seems that you'll need to download "metacafe pro" whatever that is, which I am not going to try as I don't want too much junk cluttering this machine.

The same video may well be on other sites that may allow you to download without needing extra software.

Title: IT help needed
Post by: thermidorthelobster on September 30, 2007, 20:34:25

Try vixy.net - not sure if it works with Metacafe.

If not, there are some freeware downloaders;  I can check the one I've been using recently but can't remember the name offhand and it's on the other laptop, so let me know if vixy.net doesn't work.

Title: Re: IT help needed
Post by: Guyh2 on September 30, 2007, 21:42:44

Quote from: "woody"

ok
how do i download it or copy it to my computer

PM an email address and I'll mail it to you it's a 6.2MB flv file which will either need converting to avi or use the brilliant & free VLC media player to play it

If you use the Firefox browser then there's a little add-on to grab embedded videos from Youtube & metacafe etc.

Title: IT help needed
Post by: thermidorthelobster on September 30, 2007, 21:57:41

Ah, this was the one I was thinking of:  vDownloader. (http://www.vdownloader.es/)