Re: How do I save video/x-ms-wmv objects?

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On Jan 13, 1:59 am, "zachd [MSFT]"
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plaYback

<a href=some.wmv>right click save as</a>

<embed src=some.wmv>not easy</embed>

*shrug* Clickable vs embedded is the differentiation point.

That is correct. However, embed is not an official W3C html tag and
never has been. It is a hangover from the browser war era. I believe
Netscape came up with it, while IE came up with the equally invalid
bgsound. Unfortunately many, including those in many major media
companies, apparently do not know this or do not care. I have been
able to use modern valid object code for over 20 audio and video
formats. In many cases even IE can be made to work with this. In some
cases you have to supply an ActiveX path for IE selected by Windows
conditional comments (These are seen as just ordinary comments by non-
IE family browsers, but IE-family browsers see right through these
comments and process whatever is inside - in this case an ActiveX
object).

Embedded video (hopefully using correct modern object code) is
extremely common on web pages, especially commercial ones, where the
video or audio is just part of the web page and one wants to control
the positioning, size, controls shown, etc exactly on the web page
just as one often wants to control the positioning of a still image or
text. One does not want to jump to another page to bring up some
player. It is quite possible to also add a text link in addition to
the embedded video so that it is easy to download the media by right
clicking. However many do not do this, and many are only concerned
with a user reading the page - not downloading some media - since a
commercial page often is about selling something other than a full
version of say a video clip.

Some sites that have a lot of media that they want people to download
provide download links to media in FTP format. One can provide a click
text link to a directory on the server that contains many media files,
and the user can select those to download from the titles of each
file. Or one can provide only the FTP path link to a single media file
in the FTP directory. One can also use protection that requires a name
and or password before media can be downloaded from the FTP directory.

In short, often the owner of a page has no interest in making media
easy to download. One can often find a way to download it, but it may
require a few tricks or special programs. As a last resort one can
sometimes do a screen capture, but for a high resolution video, the
speed required of the computer for the capture sometimes is more that
most PCs can provide.

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"Frank Martin" <f...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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What is a "Platback Context"?

"zachd [MSFT]" <za...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You didn't give a playback context, so I'm confused. If it's a clickable
link, it's easy to save. If it's not a clickable link, you generally
have to work to save it.

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"Frank Martin" <f...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In the old days these sorts of files could be saved as *.mpg, but now
many people are going over to the un-saveable sort.

I don't grok that. video/x-ms-wmv is for .wmv files. You should be
able to just right-click on a link to a WMV file and save it. What am
I missing? =)

I can't seem to be able to do this. Do you mean right-click on the
playing video clip, or is there some other way to refer to the playing
clip from Windows Explorer? I am confused.

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