Why won't FG work in this site?:

[S0M31]

Hi!
Could anyone tell me why FlashGot can't intercept this site's videos:
http://www.mako.co.il/tv-erez-nehederet ... 99ade16110
(Orbit downloader's Grab++ can get the links but i would really like to rely only on FF extensions)

It's in Hebrew, so you probably won't understand. but pleeeeaaase try to help

[therube]

The files look to be simple WMVs.

(That site sure is not simple to figure out what to allow or not.)

Yes Grab.exe (Orbit) does see them.

Using mms & .asx & .asp & ... & the cached versions end up as .dat's (giving a good chance to explore a Nirsoft utility) in TIF.

You would think FlashGot would see them, but it's not.

gm.asp:

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mms://s75wm.castup.net/server12/468/665/66502609-61.wmv?ct=US&rg=US&aid=468&ts=0&cu=488605C8-A6EF-4DF3-B2C9-476C347000D9

gm.asx:

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<asx version="3.0">
	<!-- GMX -->
	<param name="encoding" value="utf-8" />
	<title>CastUP: erez_1al1_zipi</title>
	<MOREINFO HREF = "" />

	<entry>
	<PARAM NAME="EntryType" VALUE="Content" />
	
	<param name="encoding" value="utf-8" />
	<PARAM NAME="CastUP_AssociatedURL" VALUE="" />
	<PARAM NAME="CastUP_Content_Config" VALUE="" />
	<PARAM NAME="CastUP_Content_ClipMediaID" VALUE="3738293" />
	<author>keshettv</author>
		<title>CastUP: erez_1al1_zipi</title>
<ref href="mms://s3bwm.castup.net/server12/248/268/26838576-61.wmv?ct=US&rg=US&aid=248&ts=0&cu=488605C8-A6EF-4DF3-B2C9-476C347000D9" />
<ref href="mms://s75wm.castup.net/server12/248/268/26838576-61.wmv?ct=US&rg=US&aid=248&ts=0&cu=488605C8-A6EF-4DF3-B2C9-476C347000D9" />
<ref href="mms://s93wm.castup.net/server12/248/268/26838576-61.wmv?ct=US&rg=US&aid=248&ts=0&cu=488605C8-A6EF-4DF3-B2C9-476C347000D9" />
<ref href="mms://s54wm.castup.net/server12/248/268/26838576-61.wmv?ct=US&rg=US&aid=248&ts=0&cu=488605C8-A6EF-4DF3-B2C9-476C347000D9" />
<ref href="mms://sv6wm.castup.net/server12/248/268/26838576-61.wmv?ct=US&rg=US&aid=248&ts=0&cu=488605C8-A6EF-4DF3-B2C9-476C347000D9" />

	</entry>

</asx>

[therube]

(this has nothing to do with your problem, but ...)

Ha! And it works.

VideoCacheView - Save downloaded video files from Web browser cache

I've always known that .dat's were .wmv's.
And that once a .dat, it could no longer be replayed.
And I've never known of any media player that would play a .dat, or of any utility that could make a .dat playable.

But with nirsoft, you can.

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videocacheview.exe /copymms <Source .dat file> <Destination .wmv file>

It works .

[therube]

I should have made that a bit clearer.

With some sites that play WMV movies (like the site mentioned in the first post), the file that ends up in your TIF directory is called somefile.dat rather then somefile.wmv.

That somefile.dat file cannot be replayed. It "is" an WMV, but changed in whatever manner to make it so that it cannot be replayed.

The Nirsoft utility has the ability to take that .dat file & convert it back into a .wmv file that can once again be (re)played in your media player.

[S0M31]

So is there any way besides orbit (or the nirsoft software u guys were talking about) to download the videos from there?

[therube]

At present no.
So either it is a bug in that FlashGot is not seeing it, or simply that FlashGot is not able to see it?

If the former, then it may be fixed in the future, if the latter, then you'll need to use Orbit or similar.

(The Nirsoft utility doesn't download anything. It simply finds the download in your cache directories & enables playback of same.)