ive just started a home learning course with Computeach to learn about computers...now, they provide a website for the students with a skillsoft course player for us to study and interact with. To do this i must have regular access to the internet to sign in on the site and access the player through the site but im relying on other peoples wireless signals which is not guna last. ideally, i wana be able to record the skillsoft course from the player window and save it as a video. I can study it by watching the recorded video at home at my leasure without the worry of accessing the web then...is it possible? ive seen tutorials on different things online and on subject courses you can buy...how do they do it? What software do they use? Can any1 answer this? Ash-lee
Errr.. use a proper browser like firefox and it will usually cache the video locally.. otherwise play the stream in a proper streaming player like VLC and record the stream. As for embedded web players.. your guess is as good as mine.. Try to find where the stream comes from then see if you can get at it by other means than the embedded player.
wow, that was a quick response. thanx a lot. i know i could print screen but that wud take a loooong time for the amount of topics that are in the course. theres gotta be a software that can record the activities from a video/media player window...
just incase it helps, heres the link to one of the skillsoft course interactive courseware videos. http://library.skillport.com/course..._cgi/odisapi.dll&use508=0&SIGNED_APPLET=false if any1 can figure it out, it'd be great Ash-lee
I will have a looksee later and find out 1) if it will even play on linux... and 2) where the stream comes from if possible, and what players will work with it. Sometimes they have these things locked down pretty tight.. but I have full ports capabilities and know quite a lot about how streams and display hardware interacts. I will try to keep it as low tech as possible tho.... Not sure about the windows version of firefox.. but the linux version allows running a standalone player (like vlc) instead of a plugin for certain media types.. and also in the "what to do with certain media types" you can select "save to computer" instead of trying to display say a .swf file... good for ripping youtube video without mucking about with unstable addons... Search your machine for "cache" and down in the "profiles" folder in firefox you will find a heap of files with no names or extensions... look for the ones which are a few mb's or more then try playing them with vlc or a flashplayer.... these videos may already be saved and waiting for you
thanx for these ideas guy. Ja know, ive sorted it...ja know what i did? I know you can print screen to take a pic of a screen...so i googled 'record screen' and came up with a few software that can do this...theres "BB flashback recorder" and "Superscreen recorder" so ik using SS-Rec to record a Fixed Region of the window and it even records the audio too. im well happy! I should have these skillsoft courseware vids recorded in no time...wehey!
yeah i guess it has! I appreciate the fact that you were goin to try n find a solution for me anyway. thats really good of you. im definately guna use this sight again because theres good regular responses by people and i too am guna c if i can help any1... Thank you! Ash
