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How To Capture Streaming Video In Mac OS X
Mar 11, 2025
A handy little tip that uses Safari.
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hey everyone
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today I'm going to show you how you can
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capture streaming video in Mac OS 10
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liar
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now you can also do this in previous
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versions of OS 10 as well
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click Snow Leopard enter particular
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Leopard as well I haven't personally
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tested on there but I would assume it
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works it's actually pretty easy and all
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it requires is safari I've tried this
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with a couple different video streaming
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sites including dailymotion Vimeo
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YouTube and Ustream different things
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like that and I've had mixed results
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with all of them but for the most part
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any type of video file that you're
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streaming you should be able to capture
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and download this way so I'm going to
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show you this with a youtube video but
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it works the same with any video that
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you're working with so what you'll have
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to do is in Safari you go up to the
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window menu and then click activity and
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then you should see a listing of all the
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tabs you have open in Safari and I'm
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just going to click a little triangle
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here to open this up and then shows me
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all the files that are on the web page
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I'm on and we're going to want to do is
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look around here until you find the
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largest file on the page and you can see
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here downloading twenty one point nine
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or thirty nine point four megabytes and
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this is a video file and all you have to
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do is hold down the option button on
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your keyboard and a double click file
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and if you go to your Safari Downloads
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button here you can see that it is
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downloading the video not by default
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this downloads in a that FLV format now
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that fov isn't the most optimal format
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for playing video back on your Mac but
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there are tons of different media
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players and converters out there
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available that can easily convert your
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video into a more workable format in OS
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10 so I wasn't able to capture all types
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of live streaming video for example I
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tried Ustream and that didn't seem to
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work but YouTube live video I was able
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to capture and download I was also able
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to capture all video from
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in motion video I had mixed results with
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it working Mac not very well and once
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your video is done downloading it's as
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simple as clicking the little magnifying
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glass in Safari here to show the video
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in finder and from then you can play it
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back and it just downloads right to your
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downloads folder like any other file
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would and that's honestly as simple as
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it is you may have thought there'd be
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more steps involved for something like
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that but it's really that easy so
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there's how you can capture and download
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streaming video in Mac OS 10 lion as
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always if you have anything that you'd
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like to see me do a how-to on make sure
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to send me an email I hope you found
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this video useful and thank you for
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watching
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