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In computer news this week 04/02/2008 The Web is a big candy store, and
what you see is what you get, or you can get ... Part 2 Today
we’ll talk about capturing movies and other media that you see on the
Web to your computer. One of
the most exciting things about the Web today are all the sites that let you
play and watch live video on your computer screen; including tv shows and
movies. Probably the biggest of
these sites – which has now become both a noun and a verb in popular
computer lexicon similar to Google
– is Youtube.com . You can go to youtube and type in any
subject you’re interested in looking for – like Spokane Washington
And find
pages of movies which have Spokane Washington in their descriptions, see
thumbnails of the movies, and then actually watch these movies on your
computer. You can
literally spend most of your life watching Youtube movies, and it becomes
very addictive. Ok I do spend
hours doing this and it’s great fun – you can type in virtually
anything and find movies about the topic. I believe Youtube is the biggest video
site on the web today. You can
also watch rebroadcasts of current and old tv shows like the Alfred
Hitchcock Hour., and I had done a Raw Bytes show on that a
few weeks ago. And you
can bookmark all your favorite videos so you can click and watch them anytime
you want. But in our real world
of excesses and instant gratification, our virtual reality world is
even more voracious, and now most web surfers want more than watching movies
or tv shows – they want to be able to download them on their computers
and ipods and mp3 players, and be able to watch
them anytime – anywhere. One
company whose video capture/conversion products I have used for a long time
are those made by Applian
Technologies , a company who offers a suite of software products for
capturing internet video and music files.
Applian offers both simple capture utilities so that you can
capture internet media and convert it to popular formats, or a power user
suite. I use their Replay Media Catcher to capture all internet video. I just
click on the icon on my desktop and it automatically starts recording and
will capture any video in a .flv
format.
Then I
use another of their products – Replay Converter – to convert to
the popular .wmv Windows Media Video format, which is the movie standard
format for the WEB.
I am a
heavy user of Windows Movie Maker for editing videos, but Replay media suite
does have movie editing capabilities. You can actually
download any of their products on a trial basis from their website. Another
nice feature they offer is that you can go to their home page and type in the name of the
video or audio website you want to record, and they will tell you the exact product
you need.
In terms
of copyrights on media, I know Youtube requires you to state that you are the
owner of the copyright of the material you upload to your Youtube Channel,
and after that I think it’s assumed it’s going to be downloaded
– not just watched. The
technology and laws related to this seem to be changing daily. Next week
I’ll talk about other online sites you can use for media conversion. |
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