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Save Videos from Hulu, Comedy Central, and Others

We’re going to be saving TV episodes from sites such as Hulu, Comedy Central, CBS, and others using Orbit, a free download manager capable of saving streaming media (on the RTMP protocol, so Live HTTP Headers doesn’t quite work out here). Orbit is also an easier way of grabbing things such as YouTube and Google videos. However, there are limitations, and it’s currently not possible to download video from sites which use the Move Media Player (here’s a list of clients, so you’ll be unable to download with this method).

In our example, we’ll be saving a short segment of The Colbert Report featured on Comedy Central’s website. We’re going to assume you’ve already downloaded and installed Orbit (and have installed the appropriate browser plugin during the installation.) (more…)