How can I download video from lds.org?

Hi all,

I have a request from one of our leaders to download a few videos from http://www.lds.org to show at a leadership meeting. One such link is: http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,6865-1,00.html. I do not know how to download this to save on a flash drive (it is not just a right-click save-as type of thing; this is a streaming WMV). Can someone help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
-James

jamesm76 wrote:I have a request from one of our leaders to download a few videos from www.lds.org to show at a leadership meeting. One such link is: http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,6865-1,00.html. I do not know how to download this to save on a flash drive (it is not just a right-click save-as type of thing; this is a streaming WMV). Can someone help me with this?

From the web page you linked to there is no way of downloading the video. You can search the rest of lds.org for the video in a downloadable format. I did a quick search for the video now available on the Young Women page but could not find it.

All is not lost though. There are Internet video capture programs available to capture the stream. I did not find any that were free, but I didn't look very hard for them.

Alternatively you can see if the video is cached in your temporary internet files folder or some other place on your hard drive. The specific video on the Young Women page was cached in my temporary internet files folder.

The steps I took to get to the cached file were these:

1. Start the video and let it play through to allow it to finish loading. Do not close the page or open another browser page or close your browser. The cached file should now be on your hard drive and most likely reside in your temporary internet files folder.
2. Right click the embeded Windows Media Player and select "Properties". On the file tab at the bottom is the file URL address and name.
3. Search your computer for the file name found in step 2. It will most likely be in your temporary internet files folder.
4. Copy that cached file to your memory stick.

The resolution of the videos is dependent on the download speed you select. If you can, select the fastest speed available to get the highest resolution stream.

That video appears to have come from a worldwide leadership conference. I would check the LDS Distribution Services section of lds.org and see if you can find which one. There are videos available for each of those conferences.

I didn't read enough on that page. It states:

This video is an excerpt from President Hinckley's address given at the January 2004 Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting.

Here is the DVD:

24241090, January 2004 Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: The Priesthood and the Auxiliaries of the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary. 2 DVDs, multilingual. Free.

Thanks JD & Macsense!

I tried to look in my Temporary Internet Files directory and I found a file with a ".dat" extension about 2MB in size. I tried changing the extension to .WMV with no luck (Windows Media Player wouldn't take it).

As for the DVD, I'm not able to find it on ldscatalog.com; however, since you included the item number, I'll just call LDS distribution services and have them help me. We need this within a few weeks, so the DVD might work out just fine.

Thanks again,
-James

jamesm76 wrote:Hi all,

I have a request from one of our leaders to download a few videos.... I do not know how to download this to save on a flash drive (it is not just a right-click save-as type of thing; this is a streaming WMV). Can someone help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
-James

There are a couple of suggestions in this thread. I have not tried them yet, but others have had success.

jamesm76 wrote:I tried to look in my Temporary Internet Files directory and I found a file with a ".dat" extension about 2MB in size. I tried changing the extension to .WMV with no luck (Windows Media Player wouldn't take it).

Using the Young Women page you linked to in the original post to this thread the video is titled "When You Save a Girl". I clicked on the 'Watch a Video' icon in the upper right of the page. The name of the file I found in the temporary internet files folder was "82695_YW_WhenYouSaveAGirl_000_300k_wh.asx". Note it has the extension "asx". When I found the file in the temporary internet files folder I copied it to my desktop, closed IE, and double-clicked that file. It opened Windows Media Player and played the video. Note also in the name of the file the speed of the download of 300k for 300 kbps. The slower speed of 56k gives a lower resolution video.

jdlessley wrote:Using the Young Women page you linked to in the original post to this thread the video is titled "When You Save a Girl". I clicked on the 'Watch a Video' icon in the upper right of the page. The name of the file I found in the temporary internet files folder was "82695_YW_WhenYouSaveAGirl_000_300k_wh.asx". Note it has the extension "asx". When I found the file in the temporary internet files folder I copied it to my desktop, closed IE, and double-clicked that file. It opened Windows Media Player and played the video. Note also in the name of the file the speed of the download of 300k for 300 kbps. The slower speed of 56k gives a lower resolution video.

That's interesting, but doesn't help with the original question of downloading videos for viewing offline. Note that a .asx file is simply a tiny XML file that contains information about the video -- it doesn't contain the actual content. It does contain the URL to the stream (it will start with "mms:"), which might be helpful in downloading the stream using some utilities. But with no Internet connection, the .asx file is not sufficient for playing the video.

Is the LDS.org video hosted with YouTube? If it is, I've recently heard of a service that can download the video for you.

mkmurray wrote:Is the LDS.org video hosted with YouTube? If it is, I've recently heard of a service that can download the video for you.

There are some addon/plugin (I don't use English version) for Firefox that do this.
It can also convert from FLV to AVI, or other video formats, in a fly.

I need the "hands" video from this lds.org page. Any thoughts on how to download it?

http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,8776-1,00.html

I've tried a few utilities for downloading Flash movies but none have worked.

Thank you.

For troublesome flash movies I really want,
I just raid my browser cache.

Immediately after playing the movie, I go to
my Browser Cache in the filesystem, and sort
the files by date. The most current flash video
(the one with the .swf extension) is usually the
one I want. I then copy and paste
it to another directory, and give it a sensible name.
Sometimes, I transcode the video to a more
"open" format.

- Atticus

Using atticusewig's suggestion, after viewing the video, I typed "about:cache" in my Firefox address bar, clicked on "List Cache Entries" under the "Disk Cache device" heading and searched for lds.org. I found this URL:

http://broadcast.lds.org.att-idns.net/R ... _eng__.mp4

It should probably work.

jamesm76 wrote:Hi all,

I have a request from one of our leaders to download a few videos from www.lds.org to show at a leadership meeting. One such link is: http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,6865-1,00.html. I do not know how to download this to save on a flash drive (it is not just a right-click save-as type of thing; this is a streaming WMV). Can someone help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
-James

Go to (In internet explorer):

1. View
2. Source
3. On the source page:
4. Scroll down until you find "SRC='/...'
5. Copy this and paste in a word document after http://www.lds.org
6. Save as an html file
7. Open this word document in internet explorer
8. Right click
9. Click save target as
10. Now you should be done...

You should be able to do this with any of the videos

Allen

The only way I found to work was to use the VLC player (free) from www.videolan.org Link for Windows

In the VLC media player, you can choose a drop down menu to "capture" the video more easily.

Steps:
1) If the video uses a Windows Media Player plugin, such as is seen in the original question, then you can right click on the video, choose properties, and you will see a URL to the .asx stream, for example:
http://www.lds.org/pa/multimedia/files/ ... 00k_wh.asx

2) Download the VLC player, go to the "media" menu, choose "Open a Network Stream", paste in the above URL, then use the drop-down option to choose "capture" (instead of play), near the bottom of that box.

3) Choose a destination file name ending with .asf and select the option for "Video- WMV + WMA (ASF)"

4) You can display the output if you want, but then click Start. That is it.


Regarding the other type of player, the kind seen at lds.org/move or at http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,8776-1,00.html the previously mentioned method using the Firefox browser is best:

1) In firefox, after seeing the video, type in the address bar "about:cache" (without the quotes)
2) click on the link "list cache entries" in the section for Disk Cache Device
3) Search for "mp4" (or for lds.org) but eventually the complete URL ending in mp4 will be found, for example:
[url=http://about%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=http://broadcast.lds.org.att-idns.net/ReliefSociety/eng/RS_VT__03_BeckJB_Minister__eng__.mp4]http://broadcast.lds.org.att-idns.net/R ... _eng__.mp4[/url]

If there is any difficulty, type this in the address bar: about:cache?device=disk
Then search for the mp4 link.

After you have that link, you can enter it directly in the browser (or click it). Then go to the File menu of the browser & select "save page as" to put it on your desktop.

If you need a file format converter, SUPER is pretty good (the download link is at the bottom)

Another Download option is the free firefox extension found here:

http://www.downloadhelper.net/index.php

I wasn't able to test it for the leadership training video, for some reason it wouldn't load that video for me at all... but the one on the visiting teaching site worked just fine... be aware that it only gives you the option for the ones you've opened... so at least click on the high quality version link and let it start loading before you check... otherwise it may not load...

also, I'd check video.lds.org ... Many of the videos are available here without any hassle... I'm not sure why there aren't links leading here from the pages that talk about the same videos...