awesome BMW video (M3 vs R1100S)

atomic80 · 25th September 2002, 06:36

Here's an incredible video showcasing the capabilities of the E46 M3 versus a R1100S under tracking conditions. Two machines dueling with each other.

If anyone can figure out how to save the video, please share the tip with the rest of us!

The duel

Enjoy!

BostonRocket · 25th September 2002, 06:39

Great video Jason!

'Rocket

lai_j · 25th September 2002, 07:24

1. Download ASFRecorder. I believe if you google it, you'll find a copy of it *somewhere*.

* ASFRecorder takes http, mms, etc... URL's and acts as a host computer streaming the video realtime to your PC saving it in the process. While this works for most, it doesn't work in all cases. This video causes some problems.

First off, it's an anti-leech scheme

So... what do you do then?

First check out the properties of the streaming vid, by viewing the source of the html file. In this case, the actual code is set down aways so scroll down till you see data.

Then look for something like this:

Code:

< param name="src" value="http://www.someplace.com/vids/blahblahblah209348203984098/fakevid.asx?somekindofparameter" &rt;

you'll notice that it isnt' a proper asf, asx or wmv file. In fact, it's merely a text file that auto redirects the browser to the "real" file. Putting this url in asfrecorder won't get you anywhere nor will putting the actual URL in the browser. So how do you get around that?

Simple... create a "fake" webpage and "Save target it". In otherwords, open notepad, and (using the example above) put this single line in:

Code:

< a href="http://www.someplace.com/vids/blahblahblah209348203984098/fakevid.asx?somekindofparameter"&rt; cl</a&rt;

save this as blah.html

Open this file in your browser. You'll see the single link. Now, right-click this link and choose "Save target as...". This will bypass the browsers attempt at parsing the data it gets and instead just dumps the data into a simple text file (blah.asx) on your computer.

Now, open this file using notepad or wordpad to see the "real" pathname. Output like this:

Code:

asx version="3.0"
  title Blah /title
   author Bender /author
  copyright (c)  Bender is great /copyright
    
       entry 
        ref href="mms://blah.com/path/to/real/video.wmv" 
        /ref
      /entry
/asx

You'll notice this is simply xml with a reference to the *actual* url of the video.

Take *this* url and plug it into ASFRecorder. Enjoy!

**Disclaimer: This is for educational (entertainment) purposes only. Please respect the rights of the copyright holder

atomic80 · 25th September 2002, 07:39

AWESOME! You rock! I've been looking for a way to save streaming videos for a very long time now!

lai_j · 25th September 2002, 07:42

just glad i could help

sorry about the hacked up "code"... i couldn't figure out how to make it show up so i just deleted the "less thans" and "greater thans".

atomic80 · 25th September 2002, 07:51

Do you have a way to download streaming .rm (Real audio) videos too?

lai_j · 25th September 2002, 07:59

I did find this snippet:

To capture a Real stream for offline viewing, choose Play, Record Audio or Play, Record Video, or right-click the audio or video clip and choose the record command from the pop-up menu. Don't get your hopes up, though. After several hours of browsing, I found precious few clips that had a selective-record feature enabled. One potential solution is Streambox's Streambox VCR, but it is temporarily unavailable. When it reappears, it may include the ability to capture Real streaming content.

here's where i found it

After playing a real media file that's streaming (and when you can't save it using the real player) check your temporary internet folder. This works (sometimes) w/ quick time streaming files... You might want to check to see if you can somehow "cache" the files on your disk.