Where can I download video easily?
August 11, 2007 8:04 PM Subscribe
I've just bought a portable media player and want to fill it with video. I'm loving Stage6 - click the link and it quickly downloads a high quality divx file. Anything else out there as easy to use and reliable?
Stage6 has a great range of British TV but I also want to get hold of American television. I know this is in a gray legal area but I am prepared to pay money for a good service.
[I'm not interested in bit-torrent as it doesn't work for me with my service provider].
Stage6 has a great range of British TV but I also want to get hold of American television. I know this is in a gray legal area but I am prepared to pay money for a good service.
[I'm not interested in bit-torrent as it doesn't work for me with my service provider].
Google Video has download links with most stuff, and there are hours of good old stuff.
posted by mathowie at 9:05 PM on August 11, 2007
posted by mathowie at 9:05 PM on August 11, 2007
I'm not sure if you can download from it, but I LOVE this site:
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/
posted by willmize at 2:54 AM on August 12, 2007
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/
posted by willmize at 2:54 AM on August 12, 2007
On the Google Video recommendation: I regularly get dropped connections at about the 10% downloaded mark, and GV doesn't appear to support resuming. It does support downloading from X seconds in if you fool about with the download URL, and I've written a primitive brute-force file splicer that lets me stitch together a mostly workable AVI from all the resulting partial broken downloads, but this is a pain. Does anybody else get regularly broken downloads from GV, and if so, what's your workaround?
posted by flabdablet at 6:28 AM on August 12, 2007
posted by flabdablet at 6:28 AM on August 12, 2007
DVD rental + Mediafork would work really well for this.
posted by mzurer at 8:01 AM on August 12, 2007
posted by mzurer at 8:01 AM on August 12, 2007
The tv-links.co.uk site is nice, but it's mainly a Stage6 scrape, so. Peekvid maybe?
posted by carsonb at 8:51 AM on August 12, 2007
posted by carsonb at 8:51 AM on August 12, 2007
how do you download the stage6 files? i can view them but dont know how to capture them??
posted by edtut at 11:52 PM on August 12, 2007
posted by edtut at 11:52 PM on August 12, 2007
I like tv-links , but the content is embeded in pop-ups, so downloading isn't always an option. alluc takes you to the page on the content provider, which makes for easier downloading. I find these two to be pretty complementary in terms of content so I use both.
To download from stage6: beside the big play button in the middle of the video screen is a down arrow, that is the download button.
posted by dr. moot at 12:18 PM on August 13, 2007
To download from stage6: beside the big play button in the middle of the video screen is a down arrow, that is the download button.
posted by dr. moot at 12:18 PM on August 13, 2007
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posted by mathowie at 8:57 PM on August 11, 2007