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    #1

    Extracting a video clip

    Another techie question for those who know more about such things than I do.

    Say I want to rip the footage out of a clip like this:

    http://vbox7.com/play:m12d6e3f27

    . . . and save it as an mp4 file, or even an flv. How would I go about it?

    I tried googling "ripping from vbox7" (which appears to be eastern Europe's answer to YouTube – it's perfectly safe btw, have been dipping in and out of it for months and never got any viruses), but the sites don't seem to do the business for me. Is there a way I can do it manually on my own machine?

    Am using Chrome on a Macbook btw.
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    #2
    Extracting a video clip

    If you try the tool menu, then go "more tools", then "developer tools".

    Click "resources", then have a look through the folder menus that show up on the left. If the file's embedded as an mp4 or flv already, you can usually get at it that way. Likewise if you're trying to get a picture that's right click-disabled.

    Doesn't always work for streamed video, though, and I think there are programming workarounds that can be used to stop it. But it works at least some of the time.

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      #3
      Extracting a video clip

      Have a root through the Chrome Web Store.

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        #4
        Extracting a video clip

        Seems that the clip in the OP was actually hosted on Dailymotion:
        http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzu...B8%D1%8F_sport

        Chrome isn't really my area of expertise (it's exactly for this kind of thing i.e. downloading video that I use Firefox - extensions are far less locked down) but it seems Fast Video Downloader will work with Dailymotion.

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          #5
          Extracting a video clip

          Toro Toro wrote: If you try the tool menu, then go "more tools", then "developer tools".

          Click "resources", then have a look through the folder menus that show up on the left. If the file's embedded as an mp4 or flv already, you can usually get at it that way. Likewise if you're trying to get a picture that's right click-disabled.

          Doesn't always work for streamed video, though, and I think there are programming workarounds that can be used to stop it. But it works at least some of the time.
          Thanks. Can't find a damn thing resembling a video file in there though. I'll keep at it.

          Stumpy – what should I be looking for?

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            #6
            Extracting a video clip

            Three Times A Reddy wrote: Seems that the clip in the OP was actually hosted on Dailymotion:
            http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzu...B8%D1%8F_sport

            Chrome isn't really my area of expertise (it's exactly for this kind of thing i.e. downloading video that I use Firefox - extensions are far less locked down) but it seems Fast Video Downloader will work with Dailymotion.
            Cheers. I'll try and rip it through that.

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              #7
              Extracting a video clip

              Okay, I tried installing Firefox, and I then downloaded an add-on called 1-Click Dailymotion Downloader, which seemed self-explanatory enough. But although it adds a blue download button to the video clip, clicking on it results in absolutely nothing happening. I must be doing something badly wrong.

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                #8
                Extracting a video clip

                Dailymotion's recently changed to an HTML5 player, you're gonna need this:

                Video DownloadHelper

                Seems to be the only extension so far that actually works with the new embedding. Play the clip for it to be detected then click the icon - don't be alarmed if it doesn't look like it's downloading, you'll get a notification in the bottom right hand corner once it's finished.

                Just tried it now with that very clip and it gave me a 96 meg FLV file that played perfectly in VLC.

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                  #9
                  Extracting a video clip

                  Thanks – and presumably I do this in Firefox, not Chrome?

                  EDIT: looks to be working perfectly. Many thanks!

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