I wanted to bring the Macworld Keynote to a buddy of mine who’s in a nursing home right now. He doesn’t have internet access there, so I thought I’d just bring it to him by saving a stream from Quicktime… Quicktime doesn’t allow for such shenanigans, but the venerable VLC does.
To do this, fire up VLC, and open the stream for this year’s keynote by choosing “File->Open Network…” and enter the address of the stream: “http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/j47d52oo/m_8848125_650_ref.mov”. Test the stream by playing it. Nice…
Let’s use the Streaming/Exporting Wizard to save the stream. Press “Apple+Shift+W” to launch the Streaming/Exporting Wizard and then select “Transcode/Save to file” and click “Next”.
Click “Existing playlist item” and select the stream in the window below followed by clicking “Next” to continue.
On the next screen, just click “Next” to continue, leaving both options blank.
Leave “MPEG PS” selected and click “Next” to continue.
Name the stream what you want it called and click “Next” to continue.
Click “Finish” to begin downloading the stream.
It should download at the pace of your connection, I believe, but mine only came down at real-time – maybe due to traffic…