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title: "How to save a streaming MSDN Showtime video locally"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/1/28/how-to-save-a-streaming-msdn-showtime-video-locally.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/1/28/how-to-save-a-streaming-msdn-showtime-video-locally.html"
published: "2007-01-28T11:08:00"
updated: "2007-01-28T11:08:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Update : Daniel has graciously supplied a very easy solution to this problem: Using the VLC player to download and transcode the stream into a file on the local system. Very easy indeed! See the 2nd and 3rd comments on…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# How to save a streaming MSDN Showtime video locally

By Roy Osherove January 28, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published January 28, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

**Update**: Daniel has graciously supplied a very easy solution to this problem: Using the VLC player to download and transcode the stream into a file on the local system. Very easy indeed!

See the 2nd and 3rd comments on this post for more details.

If anyone has any idea how I can save the video of the presentation I did here:

[http://msexp.streamnavig.com/msexp/player.asp?e=E0068&s=0337\_en\_w&f=0337\_en&uid=00067FFE8647AA45&lng=en&cou=msdn](http://msexp.streamnavig.com/msexp/player.asp?e=E0068&s=0337_en_w&f=0337_en&uid=00067FFE8647AA45&lng=en&cou=msdn)

 It would by greatly appreciated if you let me know about the steps to achieving that.

Heck, there's [www.peekvid.com](http://www.peekvid.com/) that allows saving videos from youtube and google video, there should be **some** way to download them from showtime, right?


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## About the author

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