The ULTIMATE GOP convention video thread (make CD's to hand out)

[Grig]

I'm going to give instructions here on how to capture the GOP convention video streams from the Fox News website. I'm also going to provide a playlist for them so you can just click on the one file and have them all play in order, with the ability to skip forward to the next talk.

The whole thing will fit on one CD. If you want, you can burn copies to hand out.

1. Go to www.xi-soft.com and download and install Net Transport (it's freeware)

2. Run Net Transport and click on the New Button (3rd button in the row of buttons below the menue bar).

3. In the dialog box that comes up, enter in the URL for 1 of the video files you want into the upper left field, then click OK. Repeat for all the video files you want to include. Note that further down on the left side you can set where the file will be saved on your hard drive.

Here are the URL's for all the convention video's there (except for the Bush twins)

mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_hastert_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_silver_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_kerik_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_alsuwaij_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_mccain1_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_mccain2_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_rudy1_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_rudy2_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_dole_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_harold_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_brownback_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_frist_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_paige_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_arnold_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_laurabush_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_romney_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_reagan_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_miller_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_cheney1_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_cheney2_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_williams_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_franks_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_pataki_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_thompson_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush1_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush2_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush3_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush4_090204_300.wmv

4. Open a new file in Word and past this code below into it:

[Asx version ="3.0"]
[Title]Republican Convention 2004[/Title]
[Entry]
[Title]Dennis Hastert[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_hastert_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Ron Silver[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_silver_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Bernard Kerik[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_kerik_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Zainab Al-Suwaij[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_alsuwaij_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]John McCain[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004 (1/2)[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_mccain1_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]John McCain[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004 (2/2)[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_mccain2_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Rudy Giuliani[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004 (1/2)[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_rudy1_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Rudy Giuliani[/Title]
[Author]30 Aug 2004 (2/2)[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_rudy2_083004_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Elizabeth Dole[/Title]
[Author]31 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_dole_083104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Erika Harold[/Title]
[Author]31 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_harold_083104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Sam Brownback[/Title]
[Author]31 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_brownback_083104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Bill Frist[/Title]
[Author]31 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_frist_083104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Rod Paige[/Title]
[Author]31 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_paige_083104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Arnold Schwarzenegger[/Title]
[Author]31 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_arnold_083104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Laura Bush[/Title]
[Author]31 Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_laurabush_083104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Mitt Romney[/Title]
[Author]1 Sept 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_romney_090104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Reagan Tribute[/Title]
[Author]1 Sept 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_reagan_090104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Zell Miller[/Title]
[Author]1 Sept 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_miller_090104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Dick Cheney [/Title]
[Author]1 Sept 2004 (1/2)[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_cheney1_090104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Dick Cheney [/Title]
[Author]1 Sept 2004 (2/2)[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_cheney2_090104_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Michael Williams[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_williams_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Tommy Franks[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_franks_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]George Pataki[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_pataki_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]Bush Tribute[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]FOX News Network 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_thompson_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]President George W. Bush[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004 (1/4)[/Author]
[Copyright][/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_bush1_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]President George W. Bush[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004(2/4)[/Author]
[Copyright][/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_bush2_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]President George W. Bush(3/4)[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004[/Author]
[Copyright][/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_bush3_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[Entry]
[Title]President George W. Bush[/Title]
[Author]2 Sept Aug 2004(4/4)[/Author]
[Copyright][/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\rnc_bush4_090204_300.wmv" /]
[/Entry]
[/Asx]

5. Use Search and Replace to convert every [ into a < and every ] into a >. Save it in text format with a name of GOP.ASX

6. In the directory where you saved the WMV and the ASX files, create a directory named 'vid'. Move all the WMV files to the new directory.

Now if you open the ASX file, Windows Media Player should play them in order. You can burn the ASX file and the vid directory to a CD-R, and if you want to get real fancy, put an autostart file on the CD-R too (no, I'm not going to go into that)

The playlist will work even if you didn't download all the video files. If you know what you are doing, you can include other video files too, like the Matthews vs. Miller interview.

CD-R's are cheap, and handing out copies of this could reach those who didn't watch it on TV.

[roadcat]

Excellent work! Thank you so much. Got everything downloaded and am now burning CD-R's. So I can send copies to my Demo relatives and enlighten them. Thanks!

[DelphiUser]

BTTT: BTW Thanks for the hard work guys. We'll put it to good use.

[RaceBannon]

for the autorun file, do you have to change the

[

into a

<

?

[WSGilcrest]

I just woke up and knew something was wrong. I gave bad advice earlier. (I'm sure I owe someone a cdr)The correct autostart command is as follows:

Here's your autostart file:




[autorun]
ShellExecute=GOP.ASX




Paste this into a text document and save it as AUTORUN.INF
Put this file in the same directory as GOP.ASX

[WSGilcrest]

no, but see post # 64

[WSGilcrest]

How's that for a quick response at 3:30a! g'nite again.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Bookmarked and Thanks!

[RaceBannon]

Pretty cool! am just awake and heding to the beach for the last and only time this year!

[crude77]

bump

[Grig]

Link for Miller-Matthews confrontations (right click, save as):

http://dailyrecycler.typepad.com/blog/files/zell_matthews.WMV

Playlist entry to include it (just insert into the playlist file between the end of one entry [/Entry] and the start of the next entry [Entry])

[Entry]
[Title]Zell Miller Interview[/Title]
[Abstract]Matthews is a jerk[/Abstract]
[Author]Hardball with Chris Matthews 1 Sept 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]MSNBC 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href="zell_matthews.WMV" /]
[/Entry]

[Grig]

EVERYONE BE SURE TO READ THE WHOLE THREAD, THERE ARE CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS

[El Gran Salseron]

The download instructions worked as advertised. Thanks many times over. :-)

[El Gran Salseron]

"YOU ARE WONDERFUL!!!!!!"

Geewhiz! That's the same thing my wife tells me all the time!

Sorry, just couldn't resist..... :-)

[Grig]

UPDATED INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Go to www.xi-soft.com and download and install Net Transport (it's freeware)

2. Run Net Transport and click on the New Button (3rd button in the row of buttons below the menue bar).

3. In the dialog box that comes up, enter in the URL for 1 of the video files you want into the upper left field, then click OK. Repeat for all the video files you want to include. Note that further down on the left side you can set where the file will be saved on your hard drive.

Here are the URL's for all the convention video's there (except for the Bush twins)

mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_hastert_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_silver_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_kerik_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_alsuwaij_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_mccain1_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_mccain2_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_rudy1_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083004/rnc_rudy2_083004_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_dole_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_harold_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_brownback_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_first_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_paige_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_arnold_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/083104/rnc_laurabush_083104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_romney_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_reagan_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_miller_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_cheney1_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090104/rnc_cheney2_090104_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_williams_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_franks_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_pataki_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_thompson_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush1_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush2_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush3_090204_300.wmv
mms://66.232.154.15/090204/rnc_bush4_090204_300.wmv

4. Download the playlist (GOP.ASX) here (right click, Save Target As) and put in in the directory with the WMV files.

5. Download the autorun file (autorun.inf) here (right click, Save Target As) and put in in the directory with the WMV files.

7. In the directory where you saved the WMV and the ASX files, create a directory named 'vid'. Move all the WMV files to the new directory.

8. Double click on GOP.ASX and make sure the playlist works.

You can burn the ASX & INF files and the vid directory to a CD-R. Make sure the ASX, INF files are in the root directory of the CD-R, and the vid directory is a subdirectory of the root directory.

The playlist will work even if you didn't download all the video files. If you know what you are doing, you can include other video files too, but there won't be much room for that unless you leave some speeches out.

CD-R's are cheap, and handing out copies of this could reach those who didn't watch it on TV.

-------------------------------------

Summary of changes:
- fixed URL for Frist video
- gave link for Miller-Matthews video
- Set up downloadable ASX file (corrected for the Frist filename and with an entry for the Miller-Matthews video)
- Set up downloadable autorun.inf file

Important Notes::

I have not had time to fully test all the changes.

I am still working on getting a better video of the Bush intro video. If/When I get it, and if I can find someone willing to host it (you can bet it will get a lot of downloads), I will give it the same filename as the one in the playlist, so it would just be a matter of substituting the WMV file. If anyone knows of a tool to crop and/or convert a .rm file to mpeg, avi or wmv, please let me know.

[WSGilcrest]

Havn't had your coffee yet, have you? try here for the .inf file.<

[armymarinemom]

Thanks. My son in Afghanistan has asked that I send him as much as I can on a DVD.

[WSGilcrest]

[Entry]
[Title]Zell Miller Interview[/Title]
[Abstract]Matthews is a jerk[/Abstract]
[Author]Hardball with Chris Matthews 1 Sept 2004[/Author]
[Copyright]MSNBC 2004[/Copyright]
[Ref href=".\vid\zell_matthews.WMV" /]
[/Entry]

[RepublicanArmy]

OK i have stayed silent for a long time and have just been lurking but I know some here have said they would like to have this in dvd format so once you have the better file for the President's intro I will take everything & make it all into a dvd. If you or anyone knows of someone who can host a dvd file (4.7 gigs) then freepmail me & I will send them the file so everyone who wants it can download it.

Also just for reference it will be in a .ISO format so it's best to use a program that can burn in that format to a dvd.

[RepublicanArmy]

Someone out there please make sure this is legal before we do this. I just thought about that & don't wanna have anyone knocking on my door for doing something illegal.

[Grig]

As long as you don't go around selling it I don't think there is a legal issue here. The interview on TV with that woman Clinton raped was put online for downloading to burn CD-Rs of it and there was no trouble.