Re: FMA "Brotherhood" to be webcast by Funi within days of the Japanese broadcast
- From: The Wanderer <inverseparadox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:35:25 -0400
Invid Fan wrote:
In article <Z9idnZ5TDKHUE0vUnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, The
Wanderer <inverseparadox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave Baranyi wrote:
Here is some really impressive news - Funimation is going to
webcast the new Full Metal Alchemist series, for free, in
Japanese with English subtitles, four days after the Japanese TV
broadcast.
Very interesting indeed, and for the typical fan/viewer/user case,
at least reasonably likely to be successful.
My own question is: how do I download it locally before watching,
so that I have control over the playback and it's not tied to the
browser (or to an adequate-bandwidth connection)?
If they don't allow that (e.g. by making use of an embedded
Flash-based video player and not providing even obfuscated URLs),
then I'm not buying. Note that I haven't checked whether or not
this would be possible; I simply consider it unlikely enough that,
if it *is* possible, I will be pleasantly quite surprised.
It may well be for you. I can download most stuff like that with
Safari on my mac by opening the Activities window, finding the movie
file being downloaded and double clicking on the name so the browser
downloads it like a normal file. I'm sure there's a Windows
workaround as well :)
I run Linux, actually, and my "workaround" is normally to dig into the
page source and find the URL, then either download it with wget or
-dumpstream it with MPlayer (which supports protocols most browsers
don't internally understand).
However, this is not normally practical for sites (such as YouTube)
which conceal the URLs within binary data passed to an embedded
Flash-based video player. Some ways around this do exist - such as tools
like youtube-dl, which only work for specific sites - but I've yet to
find a generic solution.
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side of it.
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