Topic: How Ripping Streaming Media Straight To Wmv (Read 1034 times)

LiGhTfasT · « **on:** July 02, 2003, 09:16:00 AM »

sorry if you already know this but after seeing a few guide which seems very long winded for something one program can do and everyone trying to find the latest preview clips.. which they can get themselves in a few minutes

its called sdp, http://sdp.ppona.com/
download it here
http://sdp.ppona.com/zips/SDP2_0_0.zip

all u do is download sdp, find the asx file you want to save to your comp as a wmv
open sdp
click the open button, paste the asx files address
click no to saving the files location
click go, choose the wmv filename and type(wmv) and your done

check out xbox.com for some streaming movies

KAC · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2003, 10:13:00 AM »

Awesome! I didn't know this existed. Thanks for the tip.

Cofi · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2003, 10:16:00 AM »

Wow thanks. I was using Stream Down, but that was shareware. This one is free!!!
This method is a lot better than recording whats happening on the screen, this is without qualityloss. I hope xbox.com's vids are in WMV8 as well

simbot82 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2003, 06:13:00 PM »

NIce work, cheers for the info, i've been trying to work out how to get at that streaming video.

V1510N · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2003, 12:17:00 AM »

im having problems getting SDP to get the streaming videos from xbox.com. ur talking about the streaming videos found here right? http://www.xbox.com/xboxtv/default.htm
i right click and nowhere does it say save target or copy shortcut. how do i use these videos to work with SDP?

Cofi · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2003, 12:56:00 AM »

A little help...

Browse the game you want in the left menu... click on it once... wait...
click on 'Launch windoze media player'. A frame to the left opens.
Hurry and click on connecting and choose save to favorites...
click on stop. and close the wmp-frame...
now open your favorites in IE and rightclick on the link (usually contain the gamename and a xblogo). Choose properties and copy the url.
Paste it in SDP and download the asx-file..
Then follow the other guide...

If there's anything you don't understand of this, ask and I can explain better...

V1510N · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2003, 01:39:00 AM »

it only connects for about a half a sec. i dont have enouph time to click it.

V1510N · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2003, 01:42:00 AM »

and it has the busy cursor and nothing happens, ur talking about clicking the connecting on windoze media player at the bottom right, right?

Cofi · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2003, 02:21:00 AM »

Yeah, you can click on a little arrow there to bring up a menu. There's where you click on save to favorites...

Well I don't know what OS and version of WMP you have, but on my PC it opens a frame to the left. Just over the play/stop buttons are is the connecting.. with the arrow slightly above...

If it starts playing, try to stop it and then try to save it to favorites...

LiGhTfasT · « **Reply #9 on:** July 04, 2003, 03:14:00 AM »

to get the filenames of the asx from xbox.com just start playing the video you want in the above link

right click the video when its playing in explorer and press properties... a box should pop up info about the stream, you want the location... should look like this http://www.xbox.com/media/games/tonyhawk3/...wk3-0001-hi.asx

now just use sdp, some of the new content i encoded with wmv9 not sure if these will need re-encoding for use with mxm

DVantrease · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2003, 08:17:00 PM »

I have grabbed a handful of videos, not sure if they are WMV8 or WMV9. First, how can I check? And second, if they are WMV9, is there a way to convert them to WMV8? Or is WMV9 support planned for a future MXM version?

I did a test disc with about 5 videos grabbed from xbox.com . They played fine, but when I was scrolling down the menu and the videos were changing titles, it locked up. I suspect maybe because they aren't WMV8 format, but that's just a guess.

This post has been edited by DVantrease: Jul 7 2003, 03:23 AM

BenJeremy · « **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2003, 08:13:00 PM »

QUOTE (DVantrease @ Jul 7 2003, 12:10 AM)

I have grabbed a handful of videos, not sure if they are WMV8 or WMV9. First, how can I check? And second, if they are WMV9, is there a way to convert them to WMV8? Or is WMV9 support planned for a future MXM version?

WMV9 probably won't happen... as it is, WMV "8" support was phased out of later XDKs, so the libs being used are no longer provided in newer XDKs.

You could try an app like AVICodec or G-Spot (See DVDRHELP.COM) to identify the codecs being used.

Cofi · « **Reply #12 on:** July 06, 2003, 11:45:00 PM »

I use Windows Media Encoder, it's like an GUI for the dos-tools that you can find on some ftps. Pretty easy to set up framerate, bitrate, size and create profiles so you just have to choose the profile MXM 512 kbps... Piece of cake

DVantrease · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2003, 10:09:00 AM »

OK I got Windows Media 8 Encoder, and I need help on the parameters. How to I make the video size, say, 260x194? Doing this, plus removing the audio, should shrink the filesize alot. Cofi, where can I find the MXM 512 profile you mentioned?

BenJeremy · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2003, 10:15:00 AM »

QUOTE (DVantrease @ Jul 7 2003, 02:02 PM)

OK I got Windows Media 8 Encoder, and I need help on the parameters. How to I make the video size, say, 260x194? Doing this, plus removing the audio, should shrink the filesize alot. Cofi, where can I find the MXM 512 profile you mentioned?

Actually, if you go 260, just go to 256 instead.... it's far more efficient in video memory usage for MXM (that extra 4 rows DOUBLES the amount of RAM used in video memory)

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