RTE Player now uses secured Flash streaming, so no media player is going to be any use to you. This product ... http://www.applian.com/replay-video-capture/index.php
... will do it after a fashion by capturing the video image as it plays on your screen. Not a great solution, really.
It's gas isn't - RTE is a public service, providing useful information to the public etc. Yet, they manage to make the use of their service awkward and fiddly. Last time I looked, they insisted I install and use Realplayer. This I did and the damn thing kept trying to set itself as my default player. No matter how I tried to set defaults, that Realplayer kept intruding. I eventaully got rid of it and RTE playbacks.
Doubtless, something to do with copyright but I would hazard that copyright restrictions only apply to a small proportion of the total. Farce anyway, for from what I see now, virtually all their programming and a helluva lot more besides is available on the net, often long in advance of when RTE gets to show it.
There's a useful little program called iShowU which captures video and audio off your computer screen (two versions, $30 and $60).
You just set up a window the same size as the video stream on your screen; the program then records what's playing and saves it as a Quicktime movie. You can even open the file in Audacity and save it as a separate audio file.
Unfortunately I cannot get RTE's videos to stream into my computer in real time, they stop about every 10 seconds and buffer for 30 seconds, and external capture mechanisms record all of that too.
Did you already tried "Download Helper"? It's a plugin for the firefox browser that allows you to download flash videos. Works great for youtube videos, didn't tried it yet with RTE videos...
RTE videos
RTE videos
Does anyone know how to save a RTE video to your own desktop..?
# Posted on April 17th 2010 by cag
Re: RTE videos
Don't think it can be done anymore - Realplayer used to do it.
# Posted on April 17th 2010 by Rob
Re: RTE videos
Download vlc media player...simplicity itself
# Posted on April 17th 2010 by Shylock
Re: RTE videos
I have VLC, didn't know it could do this, looked after your post and can't see the method. Any chance of a brief desciption on how to do it?
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by cag
Re: RTE videos
RTE Player now uses secured Flash streaming, so no media player is going to be any use to you. This product ...
http://www.applian.com/replay-video-capture/index.php
... will do it after a fashion by capturing the video image as it plays on your screen. Not a great solution, really.
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by johndsamuels
Re: RTE videos
i'm unable to save video with vlc could Shylock tell us how to use it
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by joyce1
Re: RTE videos
It's gas isn't - RTE is a public service, providing useful information to the public etc. Yet, they manage to make the use of their service awkward and fiddly. Last time I looked, they insisted I install and use Realplayer. This I did and the damn thing kept trying to set itself as my default player. No matter how I tried to set defaults, that Realplayer kept intruding. I eventaully got rid of it and RTE playbacks.
Doubtless, something to do with copyright but I would hazard that copyright restrictions only apply to a small proportion of the total. Farce anyway, for from what I see now, virtually all their programming and a helluva lot more besides is available on the net, often long in advance of when RTE gets to show it.
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by the wounded hussar
Re: RTE videos
same as that ,real player tried to take over my computer.
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by joyce1
Re: RTE videos
There's a useful little program called iShowU which captures video and audio off your computer screen (two versions, $30 and $60).
You just set up a window the same size as the video stream on your screen; the program then records what's playing and saves it as a Quicktime movie. You can even open the file in Audacity and save it as a separate audio file.
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by amhrán
Re: RTE videos
Unfortunately I cannot get RTE's videos to stream into my computer in real time, they stop about every 10 seconds and buffer for 30 seconds, and external capture mechanisms record all of that too.
# Posted on April 20th 2010 by cag
Re: RTE videos
Did you already tried "Download Helper"? It's a plugin for the firefox browser that allows you to download flash videos. Works great for youtube videos, didn't tried it yet with RTE videos...
# Posted on April 20th 2010 by euoar