Alan wrote:

<<How does one save a web based video to the hard drive?>>

Although Alan has found his own solution, there is a more general solution 
for saving most streaming video or audio files.

Open the browser cache (Temporary Internet Files for IE) and hunt for a 
file with the appropriate extension--say a .mov or .mpg file--you will 
usually be able to recognise the name.  It may be easier to list the icons 
by type if the cache is large.

Although you can't open any file direct from the cache, you can move or 
copy/paste a file from the cache folder to another folder, where you can 
then play or deal with it in the normal way, just as if you'd saved it.

Don Penlington
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