For me it just plays the file, doesn't download it. Probably in a temp directory somewhere, sure, but nowhere convenient.

But say you view the page's source to find the URL, and then you take that and download the file manually... does it play?

Why not just open the Activity window, find the file you want to save, and double-click it while holding Option? :)

(I don't know if that still works in Safari 2, but it probably should.)

Carlos: Having spent the past 2.5 hours watching video clips I just wanted to say thanks for wasting my morning :rolleyes:

Heh, some funny stuff there, huh?

I've never looked at or used the activity window. It looks promising, and very useful. I'll have to try that when I have some time later.

I was able to save a file from another site and that plays in QT, but not in Finder's preview. Weird.

I registered the Flip4Mac plugin on X.3.9 and QT 6.5 and it worked great. about 3 weeks later i went to tiger and QT 7 and it still worked, but not as well. There was more files that it had troubles playing and some of the ones that it did play it had a harder time syncing the sound with the video.

Little secret to downloading content in Safari & Explorer
 

I was having the problem whereby I could not download a file - it kept on being picked up by the relevant helper app i.e. WMP, with no save functionality.

The thing to do is:

1. look at the html source and find the absolute reference to the wmv file
2. copy and paste the absolute url in the address bar
3. hold down option and press enter

In essence this will force the files to be downloaded to your download directory - I have tested this works in both Safari & MS Internet Explorer.

BTW, the killer clip is http://media2.big-boys.com/bbfilez/mwal.wmv

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