how to properly save & open movie clips from internet
Posted: 25 Mar 2005 17:11
I'm new to this problem, so pardon if it's already been addressed elsewhere.
I'm on a Mac, OS 10.3. In the past when I downloaded any movie clips off Intenet sites, a QuickTime window automatically opened, and there was the movie, ready to play.
I'm now trying to download movie clips from a European site that says its movie clips are in "avi" format. When I click on the link for, say, a 15 MB movie clip, downloading kicks in, as seen on the bottom bar of my browser. After a couple minutes, downloading reaches completion, but then a window pops up saying, QuickTime can not open the movie because a "data reference is missing", and even though the passage of time showed that something was definitely downloading onto my computer, I can not find the file anywhere on my hard disk, so that I can try to open it with a different player like VLC. Where did the 15 MB clip go? What QuickTime data reference is missing?
I also tried opening VLC, pulling down the File menu to open file, clicking Network and http, then typing in the link to that clip, but I get error messages about 401 Authorization required and "no suitable access module". Any help here would be appreciated, thanks
I'm on a Mac, OS 10.3. In the past when I downloaded any movie clips off Intenet sites, a QuickTime window automatically opened, and there was the movie, ready to play.
I'm now trying to download movie clips from a European site that says its movie clips are in "avi" format. When I click on the link for, say, a 15 MB movie clip, downloading kicks in, as seen on the bottom bar of my browser. After a couple minutes, downloading reaches completion, but then a window pops up saying, QuickTime can not open the movie because a "data reference is missing", and even though the passage of time showed that something was definitely downloading onto my computer, I can not find the file anywhere on my hard disk, so that I can try to open it with a different player like VLC. Where did the 15 MB clip go? What QuickTime data reference is missing?
I also tried opening VLC, pulling down the File menu to open file, clicking Network and http, then typing in the link to that clip, but I get error messages about 401 Authorization required and "no suitable access module". Any help here would be appreciated, thanks