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SEGURANT

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 7:21 PM

here is the link to the old Fox site if you are looking for it.

http://www.fox-tv.com/firefly/index.htm

MAKEROFPATHS

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 7:29 PM

Well, there's just a whole bunch of you (new) guys.

You must have QuickTime Pro to save to disc. It's well worth it because otherwise, you can't save movie trailers and that most desirable of all, FF cast interviews, Blue Sun ads, and whole bunch of other things formerly located at the Fox FF site and now archived by the owner of this very site, fireflyfans.net. The url is:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/firefly/index.htm

And I've no idea who that Blue Sun "face" is in the ad.

Addition: I note that just ahead of me is a URL for a Fox site with FF material. I didn't know it still worked.

GLENYAPPA

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 8:00 PM

I believe the Blue Sun face is Kelly who was a production assistant and wrote the weblog on the official site.

KERNELM

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 8:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by makerofpaths:
Well, there's just a whole bunch of you (new) guys.

You must have QuickTime Pro to save to disc. It's well worth it because otherwise, you can't save movie trailers and that most desirable of all, FF cast interviews, Blue Sun ads, and whole bunch of other things formerly located at the Fox FF site and now archived by the owner of this very site, fireflyfans.net. The url is:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/firefly/index.htm

Actually, it depends on how the file is accessed. You can download almost all the videos from the FFF mirror directly, by looking at the file source of the popup window. You'll see that all the videos are accessed via HTTP, so you can save the files directly through that URL. (You might want to use a download program like wget, since otherwise the browser will likely try to play the video directly without asking you if you want to save the file first. I dunno about the Windows programs like GetRight.) The only videos you can't save are those that were accessed through streaming protocols, basically all the ones that have three format (QT, WMV, and RM) options. Not only were those streamed, the streams are gone already anyway.

Actually, I might as well just list all the videos I found on FFF mirror, in the video directory (i.e. http://www.fireflyfans.net/firefly/video/). Note that you can't access the directory listing directly since it's protected. If I shouldn't be doing this, Haken, please edit the following.
Edit: Actually, the link somebody posted above of the fox hosted site seems to be the old site back again! So to save some FFF bandwidth, download from the Fox site, appending the following filenames to http://www.fox-tv.com/firefly/video/

SFX.mov
bluesun.mov
book.mov
costume.mov
dailies1_hi.mov
dailies2_hi.mov
directing.mov
doctor.mov
effects_1_hi.mov
effects_2_hi.mov
exteriortour.mov
firefly1_lo.mov
firefly2_lo.mov
firefly_logo.mov
geek.mov
goodies.mov
jayne.mov
jewel.mov
jossdirects.mov
jossint_1.mov
jossint_2.mov
jossint_3.mov
jossint_4.mov
kelly.mov
malcolm.mov
minear_lo.mov
moreinterior.mov
script_hi.mov
serenity_takeoff.mov
serenitytour.mov
sister.mov
timint_1.mov
timint_2.mov
trainjob_anecdote.mov
trainjob_bar_large.mov
trainjob_chairs.mov
trainjob_gun.mov
trainjob_joss.mov
trainjob_kelly.mov
trainjob_language.mov
trainjob_montage.mov
trainjob_riffraff.mov
wash.mov
whedon_lo.mov

Quote:

And I've no idea who that Blue Sun "face" is in the ad.

It's Kelly, who did most of the weblog on the old site. She's also a Producer's Assistant, and she's interviewed in the kelly.mov video. And it's her talking to Nathan in the trainjob_kelly.mov video.

PHLEBOTININ

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 8:27 PM

Thanks for listing all that info....but alas, from this end, no joy. In a burst of giddy enthusiasm at the idea of saving these great downloads for posterity (i.e., onto disk), I paid for Quicktime Pro. Yup, paid $29, then blast! Didn't work. Couldn't save any of them to disk. Ditto no luck with your most recent FF mirror info. I appreciate your effort, though, even though it didn't work for me.

Darn, darn, darn. It's too bad this great stuff isn't available for the fantatic fervent fans....although maybe it's a matter of authorship/copyright?

KERNELM

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 8:35 PM

SAINT JAYNE

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 8:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by makerofpaths:
You must have QuickTime Pro to save to disc.

I wouldn't put money on that. Ripping from the Web is fun and easy. There are many ways; I'll go into detail only if anyone cares.

It looks like KernelM has already done all the work, anyhow.

PHLEBOTININ

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 9:11 PM

Kernelm, if I were Ben Edlund I'd write an ultra-praising song about you! "The Hero of FF.net" or something. Thank you so much. Downloading these worked beautifully. As a new but scarily fervent FF fan you can be sure I'll be forever grateful to you for your help. All hail Kernelm!

Saint Jayne, I'd be intrigued to know more about ripping from the web. I don't know if it makes a diff that I'm a Mac user, which may be scandalous to people here. But hey, I have OS X, which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

PHLEBOTININ

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 10:17 PM

I should add that I don't want to rip Firefly eps from the web....I've bought four sets of the dvds and am all about seeing that people do the same. That's how the movie will (hopefully) get made. But ripping various other stuff from the web? Little blurbs and such? That'd be great.

SAINT JAYNE

Thursday, January 8, 2004 1:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by phlebotinin:
Saint Jayne, I'd be intrigued to know more about ripping from the web.

Mac is good. Internet Explorer? Go into preferences, receiving files, file helpers and look for the extension of "MOV" (probably under "Quicktime"). Change this. You can specify to download the file instead of displaying it. Once you're done collecting all your MOV files, you can turn this back.

KernelM had a good, easy idea: Write your own HTML link, right click and save.

For example: namehttp://www.domain.com/file.mov">name;

I just use a text-only browser. They can't display graphics or movies (or anything else) but they do let you save them to disk. Lynx is good - there's a beta version for Mac. There's also MacLynx and WannaBe. I've never used them, but I've read great reviews about the later. Search for "text only web browser mac" on Google for a variety.

For those last two ideas you'll need to find the URL. It's normally as easy as clicking View, Source.

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