"Stealing Videos"

[MathUser]

I'm just curious. I went to http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien/index.shtml and saw a few videos I wanted to look at in the Video Moments section. It will not let me view them cause I have WMP version 10. They want me to downgrade to version 9. Anyway, I imagine it must use some kinda wmv's from the look of the popup so does anyone know how I would get to those? Thanks.

[LiquidManZero]

There's got to be some way to grab those. It bitches at me for using firefox, which doesn't activex garbage. I know a usual method that involves loading the video with firefox, checking the page info, and either saving the video directly or opening the asx file in notepad and finding the url there. And in the case that it uses mms protocol, vlc media player is useful for ripping the stream. But in this case, I can't even get the videos to load at all...

[MathUser]

Well, I guess nbc wants to sell those shows, so they probably locked up all the conventional ways of snatching the videos. They could at least upgrade to WMP10.

[localwoman01]

aww thats too bad hiro, geez what are you going to do now? Conan is cool and thats too bad thou, they should let people download them, they do with music, thats silly

[LiquidManZero]

I'll bet upgrading to that would cost them a lot of money. But still, it's very crude of microsoft to have made the new version backwards incompatible.

[Lazy Bastard]

You could probably uninstall WMP and look for a rehosted version 9...

[SolFire]

I think I've got it.

You just need to alter this URL:
http://g.msn.com/0VD0/02/26?m= [movie name] .wmv&csid=3&sd=mbr

Obviously, where it says "movie name," you put the movie's name. You may get the name of the movie when you mouseover the thumbnail to play it. It'll have something like this:

javascript:top.mediaManager('begin','Late_Night_wi th_Conan_O%2527Brien/triumph_at_grammys')

(The bold part is the movie name)

Then just plug that in and you should be good to go.

Examples:
http://video.msn.com/asx/so.aspx?m=t...&csid=3&sd=mbr
http://g.msn.com/0VD0/02/26?m=conan_...&csid=3&sd=mbr

[LiquidManZero]

There's something, but I've checked and it's not what caused this problem. If you're using firefox and the adblock extension, you have to disable "obj-tabs" under adblock options in the preferences, otherwise wmp10 won't load videos...

Heh, that url trick seems to work.

[radical dreamer]

Ok here's how I'd do it. Usually when a video is well hidden I'd use Getright and go into the getright browser, using the page's address.
Then I'd look around in there for any .asx or .wmv files, and save them all to a folder or the desktop. If getright can't find it, I'd use something like TSearch to hexview the current browser process, and look for any references to the file that I'm trying to play, and copy the url down.

Then I'd use SDP, Can be found here, to process the .asx files because those are just redirectors. [size=7px](sometimes wmv are just redirectors as well, but not as often.)[/size]
SDP will rip the videos. I usually do this if I wanna rip a long trailer off of a laggy site that buffers too often.

I tried this with the conan vids, but it doesn't work very well there I guess.