[Tfug] general solutions to dl video from obscured links

[Chris Hill]

If you look at the bottom of the page there is:

NOTE: Video clips will only be available for 5-days from the date they 
were created. ALSO: Video clips will play in a separate window on Mac OS 
X machines, you may also see a video help screen.

The article is from Apr. 24th...so no video.

On a related note, this is probably one of the worst put together 
websites I've seen. I did some sniffing around and the link does nothing 
in Linux. In FF on Win it will open your default player then display no 
video. On IE windows it will open a custom video playing window that 
does nothing and, I kid you not, download almost 700 thumbnails for news 
articles!! I couldn't believe it. Terribly built site.

Chris


t takahashi wrote:
> trying to dl or even play a video.  curious how others do it.
> 
> firefox merely saves a .asp file; following the link inside it leads
> to some <ASX ...> thing.  i tried firefox's split link extension and
> keepvid.com to no avail.
> 
> if you're interested in nerd activism you might want to look at this
> story.  summary: guy works on his laptop at a denny's, is verbally
> assaulted for being a nerd, then is beaten unconscious by a $21
> million football player and (according to the story) 5 others,
> including at least two other football players.  the good news is that
> there is a videotape of it.
> 
> i suspect the video in question doesn't include the actual evidence
> tape, but it got me curious how to get past the url tricks.
> 
> the video link is
> 
> javascript:playVideo('765324', 'Newest Bears player faces assault
> charge', 'v', 'News', '161200', 'News',
> 'fvCatNo=&backgroundImageURL=', 'ww2.abc7chicago.com');
> 
> the page it is on is
> 
> http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4112318
>