Saving HD Video Stream?

[Davo3960]

I've been trying to find some HD Video of a shuttle launch to view on my new telly. The NASA website has some but I can't save it, it only streams. Is there a way to save it while it streams? Or is there somewhere else to download it from. There are no good torrents about either.

[Gama]

Realplayer 11 has a capture ability for streaming video, like Flash (FLV) and some others.
You can also do a search for "Streaming video capture" in google to get a few more free programs.

Theo.

[MrB]

Not sure about other forms of streaming, but If it's a Flash stream and you've already viewed it, it's still stored on your HDD.
I do the following for youtube video's:
If using IE, it's located in the Temporary Internet Files folder (C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files)

If using Firefox it's in the Cache folder. (C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\SomeR andomName\Cache)
'YourUserName' is whatever your Windows Profile name is, and 'SomeRandomName' is just that, on my machine it is 'ixwk4iqy.default'

IE usually stores it with the correct filename but no extension, copy it to another folder and rename it with a .flv extension.
Firefox doesn't preserve the filename and there's no extensions, so I sort the files by size, then start with the largest file, copy it, rename it with a .flv extension and try to view it. If it isn't the right file I'll delete it and then move to the next largest file. For youtube video's(low res) they appear to be around 0.5 to 1meg per min of video, no idea with HD streams but pretty confident it will be the largest file in the Cache folder! :D
To make things easier to find the stored file, I usually revert to using IE to view Flash video's if I'm planning to keep them.
There are a number of FLV viewers available, there are also FLV-MPG/AVI converters for download.

[Davo3960]

Thanks for the responses but i have it sorted. I use firefox and there is an add-on called Downloadhelper. You can download anything on a webpage and save it. I've downloaded all the HD Videos from the NASA site as WMV and streamed them through the XBOX360. Awesome! Just need to burn them to DVD as a demo disk. The 1080p ones are worth the 15 min download for 30 secs of viewing.

[MrB]

Nice, gonna have a look at that add-on, should make things easier! :D
Thanks for the tip.

[dugnsuz]

I use the RealPlayer freebie - works really well