Copying Video while viewing in Media Player

I have been told that you can copy a video while watching it through media player, is this true and how do you go about doing it? I have also been told that media player stores all of its movies in a temp file while you are viewing them and you can watch/record from here, is this true and how? I have searched hi and lo for the temp files, but no luck. Maybe there are no temp files being stored on my machine. Any suggestions? Thanks.

gadawg

 

Yes and No

Yes ... if its a Progressive Video streaming or otherwise called HTTP Streaming then you can copy the temp data stored in your system

Ex : YouTube

For copying the cached videos file you can use this small tool

VideoCacheView

No... if its a Streaming videos using a specific streaming protocols like mms , rtsp and so on then there will be no temp files stored they are streamed directly to you pc and the end user can start watching the file almost as soon as it begins downloading. In effect, the file is sent to the user in a (more or less) constant stream, and the user watches it as it arrives. The obvious advantage with this method is that no waiting is involved. Streaming media has additional advantages such as being able to broadcast live events (sometimes referred to as a webcast or netcast).

Ex : Any Webcast

but you can capture these streaming protocols using 3rd party software's like WebVideoCap and many others

 

Hey thanks for the info, it (WebVideoCap)worked great. However; one last question. Why will it not allow you to fast forward the movie once it has been captured? I opened the video and it works fine, however it won't allow you to advance to a particular spot in the movie as it once would. Any ideas?

gadawg31

 

This all sounds like you are trying to copy movies...sorry, but thread closed.