Skating videos on youtube

[Terry Hall]

There's a _ton_ of them. I just watched Shizuka's 2006 Olympic FS, Kimmie's
World's, and Oksana Baiul's 1994 FS. Not a bad afternoon . . .
--
John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com

There's quite a few here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=tonya+harding&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

To save them, the simplest way is to play them and then fish them out of the
cache.

In IE: look in the computer's cache folders (typically in
c:\windows\temporary internet files\ unless you've moved it somewhere else)
for a file of several megs whose name begins with "get_video" (e.g.
get_video[1], get-video[2], etc).

In Firefox or Mozilla: hey, you're obviously a computer geek, so you don't
need me to tell you what to do.

When you've found them, copy them to a suitable location, then rename them to
somereallydecriptivename.flv

In order to play them, you'll need a Flash Video player. Two we've found that
work for us are the Riva FLV player
(http://rivavx.de/index.php?downloads&L=3) and the Wimpy FLV player
(http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html). The
Wimpy player, which is available for both Mac and Windows, works off the
browser's Flash plugin and seems to work best, but it's interface is, well,
rather wimpy, and there doesn't appear to be anyway to associate it with FLV
files so that they will open by clicking on them. The Riva player can do
this, but it's Windows only, playback seems jerkier on slow machines and it
doesn't seem to play some later versions of the FLV format.

[Steve]

Actually, to save them, click on this link. I found that it doesn't save
all vids, but it does save most. You WILL, however, need the FLV player you
mentioned:

http://zfreez.com/web/Ut.htm

Post by Terry Hall

There's a _ton_ of them. I just watched Shizuka's 2006 Olympic FS, Kimmie's
World's, and Oksana Baiul's 1994 FS. Not a bad afternoon . . .
--
John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=tonya+harding&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
To save them, the simplest way is to play them and then fish them out of the
cache.
In IE: look in the computer's cache folders (typically in
c:\windows\temporary internet files\ unless you've moved it somewhere else)
for a file of several megs whose name begins with "get_video" (e.g.
get_video[1], get-video[2], etc).
In Firefox or Mozilla: hey, you're obviously a computer geek, so you don't
need me to tell you what to do.
When you've found them, copy them to a suitable location, then rename them to
somereallydecriptivename.flv
In order to play them, you'll need a Flash Video player. Two we've found that
work for us are the Riva FLV player
(http://rivavx.de/index.php?downloads&L=3) and the Wimpy FLV player
(http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html). The
Wimpy player, which is available for both Mac and Windows, works off the
browser's Flash plugin and seems to work best, but it's interface is, well,
rather wimpy, and there doesn't appear to be anyway to associate it with FLV
files so that they will open by clicking on them. The Riva player can do
this, but it's Windows only, playback seems jerkier on slow machines and it
doesn't seem to play some later versions of the FLV format.
--
Terry Hall
Head of Special Duties Section
Portland Ice Skating Society - New Zealand's Tonya Harding fan club
http://www.geocities.com/portice
Celebrating 10 years of aggressive practice: 1996-2006

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