Posted on 12/15/2006 5:51:58 PM PST by itsnevertoolate
My sister happened to catch the ABC World News segment about the wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery on December 14, 2006. Our father is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. As she watched, she couldn’t believe that one of the shots showed his grave and mentioned his name. She called me immediately afterward in tears saying it was a shame I couldn’t see the clip. I signed up for ABC News on Demand so that I could see it. Does anyone know of a way to capture the video? The ABC site does not let you save it. Thanks for your help.
If you have a VCR, that might be the easiest. You can also use Tivo or a TV tuner card (and save the video to your PC). Do you have access to any of these?
Of course, a smarter FReeper may come up with a better option.
Try asking them for a copy, I'm sure they'd burn you one.
Oops...looks like you want to capture the video from the ABC website. Your posting was not clear on this. There are several applications that allow you to do this. Do you have a link to the site?
Have you looked in your temporary internet files? Most everything you look at will be in there. Just move it to documents to save it.
If you're thinking of You Tube and Nab it!, you're out of luck.
For about 2 months now, the "capture" feature has not worked. At all.
On the other hand, in the past there was a way to retrieve viewed video from cache. I have been unsuccessful doing so in Windows XP. Not even FLV files...
Can you be more specific? Which "cache" (there are at least 4)? And cache never keeps it in a usable form. At best they will be ".flv" files.
If YouTube doesn't work (as some posters attest), you could try using a video capture software like Camtasia. It has been quite some time since I used this last but it might do the trick.
I really hope you get the necessary info for this query.
Haven't been able to do it either. I didn't realize it was an XP-specific bug.
It's a flash file it wi;; be stored in your temp internet cache as an flv file.
Click IE browser tools
Internet Options
General Tab --- Browsing History
---go to the Temp Internet Files and browsing history
---view files button
---select file view detailed, you want to see file extensions size etc
---hit the size tab twice, that should bring up the largest files first
---scroll down until you locate the abce site and see an flv file
------if you have several you might as well select all the ABC site files
------highlight the files and copy, then paste to you video folder, maybe make a new folder named wreath.
This wmight save the files if they are still in your cache. If not try to view the ABC site again and paly the video.
Next post will be an flv viewer/converter once I locate the url
http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/index.htm
Total Video Converter 3.0 - use this freeware to convert your flv files to wmv, mpeg etc
I might add, to get a free "flv" player plug-in for WinXP, just google "flv player". Worked for me.
I included the converter so that an mpeg file could be burn to CD or DVD for itsnevertoolate's family archives and TV playback.
Not knowing what your internet cache settings are, I suggest you copy the file now. Your browser settings might limit the temp cache holdings by date or cache size, in which case it would be deleted by Win IE Explorer.
That is an excellent point. As long as that explorer session is open, the file should be accessible.
Once the IE session is closed, all bets are off.
That's why they are called temporary internet files, and hidden away somewhat.
Clear enough!
Beggars can't be choosers...
: )
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