hah, I already figured out how to do this.. hmm I love LyFox WAYYYY MUCH MORE than pklaunch.

and BTW, Anyone who is having problems using VLC and the “saving stream output” method.

Download FlashGet, and then just open a new download and insert the MMS address into Flashget. You will be able to save the file as a wmv.
Good Luck! thanks again Derek!

After an easy google search, I found freeware (yes, freeware!) to convert wmv to avi: STOIK Video Converter version 2.1.1:

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fwvideconvert.html

By the way, I’ll be downloading for hours with this!

Does anyone know how to index these files so I can fast forward and stuff. I tried to do a “save and index” with microsoft media file editor but and error when trying to save :-(

When converting from WMA all the way to AVI, wouldn’t you lose video/audio quality?

Please help me. Lyfox is not working. In the list of available videos, I highlighted the one which I wanted to download and select ‘More Info’. But the MMS info box did not display ‘Artist’, ‘Title’, [Video] ‘ID’, or ‘MMS’. They’re blank. Please help me. Thanks.

matt: if you got a few gigs, just convert it uncompressed with the program I mentioned above. That’s what I use right before cropping off the black lines on the top/bottom/sides (that’s another tutorial in itself, which I’ll post if anyone’s interested). Then use QT Pro or Videora if you want to convert them to H.264 (boo) or MPEG-4.

wait, your question was about the wmv’s quality or avi’s quality. i think i misinterpreted your question ;)

am lost cant get it to download nothing am useing LyFOX and vlc we need more screenshots .am copy the mms and then open vlc and then going to click on open file then am pasteing it in the file and then it video plays. what am i doing wrong

thank you

Can VLC transcode a MMS stream stright to .mov format so that it can be imported into iTunes?

Is there another website or mirror site to download lyfox? FernyB’s website is down and I need lyfox!

Hey, nima, I got your same problem!!! that’s exactly the URL that I get
!!!!

Every thing was working so nicely what happened now? Does any one know?

Sorry guys but I had questionable visitors and decided to make some changes, some will like it and some will not. :-(

no its nothing to do with money its more with the code because it is all videos need a hash id and they were getting it all from 1 video id and that id dont work no more and it also needs a login cookie that it was using thats why you never logged in anyware.

This works great, however….the only site i can’t download from is VH1: they relink their videos and keep the ad uri and there the only place that has a video i want. so if anyone think they could do this, please feel free to comment! i’ve got money! (notice how i didn’t say to give out?)

vh1 is possible but it contains DRM so why bother since I am on a mac. I wll work on lyfox and will need a windows tester because I’ll be using cURL this time.

Make sure to post here when ya update!!! Thanx

Done

um, i didnt get it too when i download it, but like i found that if u pick ur video, click the button so the videos show up(dont close the video window), and on ur desktop, theres 2 new files, click the second one(the first is an ad) and it loads it in ur browser(im using firefox) and right click(is this irritatin yet?) and view SOURCE, and go to the almost end, and the mms link is there, and u have to use the other method of downloading the video, in which you have to go to view playlist and get the url…kinda alot of work when u can just go straight to launch

Thanks, Derek! I forgot to double click it but now it’s working. And, thanks, FernyB for such a wonderful program!

Thanks a ton FernyB, you are simply amazing! haha how did you go about finding out how to get the mms: anyways?

Great job though :-D

Oh, too bad about VH1–once I get the hang of Wink (it’s foreign to me :)), I’ll definetly send a tutorial on the works: downloading with lyfox and vlc, converting to avi, optional cropping for no black lines on the top and bottom (just how I like them), and saving them in MPEG-4 or H.264 in Quicktime. I’m not giving any exact dates yet, but stay with the uneasy!

Sorry. :-( My VLC does not read the mms:// that I copy from the Lyfox. I double click on the file and do a Edit - Copy to copy and then I open VLC by apple - N to open Network Http. Then I paste the clip board to the http:// and it keeps giving me errors and VLC wont play the file.

Any sugestions to what I’m dooing wrong? Thank

P.S. Free Software that I’ve found for converting videos to Ipod are (MoviesForMyPod), (OlliesIpodConverter1.0) and (ISquint) there is many pages to download them just google them.

lol, I know why, because your an IE user. use OPERA, or FIREFOX.

fernyb.bpgames.net

when i double click the video it says application needs to be shut down and it shuts down but mms is copied to the clipboard in flashget and i can download a .wmv file.
downloding is working but what is a problem with application?
is that any thing i’m doing wrong?

i cant find lyfox, i downloaded opera, can u help me out

??? Has anybody had a problem converting the .mov videos from GAMV? I have a few and out of all of the software that I have to convert videos to iPod frendly they all tell me that these files are locked and canot be converted. I even tried the new feature in itunes 6.0.2 and it seas that this file are locked.

Any clue. Help

Please help me.
How do I retreive the mms: now that we don’t have the copy and paste button in the new version of lyfox?

Help.

Sam did you read any of the comments? Did you even read the entries on my site. It tells you how.

well the aol app gamv you can see the url for the vid so i guess you can use flashget. The quality is about the same. but they are in quicktime .mov

i’m running os x 10.3.9. i get the mms using lyfox but i keep getting the following error message in vlc after i set the network prefs:
access_mms: cannot receive media data (aborting)
main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `WMV3′.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
access_mms: cannot receive media data (aborting)
then it starts playing the audio, but no video. i am doing something wrong?
also, what should i set for encapsulation? i don’t see wmv, just mpeg, ogg, avi, etc. etc. thanks.

where is the instalation program for LyFox

hey, can someone please help me out with gettting a video from VH1, i really need this for a project. And also of anyone can help me with converting the wmv to mpg4 i would appreciate it., thanks

Hey everyone for some reason my site is not workin.
I haven’t been able to access it not even the Admin page. Could it be under attacked?
I dont think so but I did see that this one address does get access to it.

Host Name 64-74-180-235.acsol.net
IP Address 64.74.180.235
ISP ACS BUISNESS SYSTEMS INC
Domain ACSOL.NET
City GRAND JUNCTION
Region COLORADO
Country UNITED STATES

I dont pay for it. My friend does thats why I use a subdomain from 2ya.com that way I can redirect my site anywhare.
But for those you want to Program LyFOX just email me and I will email it to you when next time I check my email. Oh Yeah tell me what version you want win, mac , linux.
fern.be [at] gmail.com

Yeah, I heard all about LyFox just recently. When I downloaded the app on Windows, and then typed in a search it just froze. Not Responding. I had to turn off the whole computer just to get the program off of the screen. Please someone help me!

okay so it worked so so so good! yesterday but somehow today it doesn’t work at all I’ve tried almost every single song in the top 100 and none of them works not even the ones I already have that I downloaded yesterday… any suggestions

and I’m using FLASHGET

okay never mind, it works with VLC I’m just too obsessed with the great FLASHGET software, thank you anyway Tara…

Yes it works with all video in the yahoo music library.

Sorry in the last post it looks like the embed tags did not print properly on the page. The correct tags are here. I put a underscore in fromt of the embed tag.Hopefully it prints now.If not I guess I’ll have to post again.(Preview feature maybe?)

Old Embed tag :

New embed tag :

OK, looks like FernyB implemented the recommendations and the embed tag works perfectly on Windows machines now.Give it a go by downloading the new Windows LyFox from the website ( http://fernyb.2ya.com/ on the projects page).Great job Ferny.Thanks.

I was wondering could anyone find out the links for the Goo Goo Dolls Live@VH1 performance videos, cause unfortunately VH1 has taken to hating users outside of the US … and I really want to be able to see these videos!!!

THIS IS JUS COMPLETE B.S I TRIED VLC AND LOADS OF OTHER PROGRAMS LIKE FLASHGET AND IT WONT F****** SAVE PROPERLY IT JUS GOES TO THE DESKTOP IN A FILE ABOUT 4.00KB ANY1 NO WHY

Joey and Tim,looks like your having problems saving from Launch with vlc and other programs. Have you tried a free program called SDP? It can be found at http://sdp.ppona.com/
Use LyFox to do the hard work of retrieving the MMS address, then in SDP paste the URL in the “URL” field underneath the “open” and “saving” fields.Click the red “GO” button and it will prompt you for a filename(+extension .wmv) and download location.Specify those and away you go.Keep in mind that the mms urls that LyFox produces apparently expire after a certain time(usually a day) so you can’t cut and paste a bunch of urls and save them for downloading the next day cuz they won’t work.You have to regenerate the URL using Lyfox.If that doesn’t work you should make sure you have the latest codecs, or check your OS integrity because something’s not working right.Good luck.

Doug, I tested a video with the subdomain you specified and it looks as though SDP indeed has a problem resolving the DNS on videos like that. As a temporary workaround I would suggest the following steps:
1. Go to setup->setup options
2. On the protocol tab there are 3 options : http,tcp and udp
3. The default is TCP but select the radio button for HTTP.
4. Click OK to save settings and retry the download

This workaround will work with the problem domain but it will download in “real-time” which means if a video is 4min 23sec long it will take 4min and 23sec to download as opposed to “progressive mode” which downloads as fast as your connection will allow.I will try to post again with more information if this problem can be resolved or a more permanent solution.

Excuse me.

I read tutorial more careful and it works perfect naw.

I can’t get it to work.. It installs fine but after typing in the artist name and clicking search, the animation spins for while and then it stops.. No results are displayed.. I’m on Mac OSX..

i used Net Transport and found it better than any other software to download yahoo streams with resume….no matter what type of url you ‘ll get from lyfox……i just give 5 stars to Net Transport for download videos……try its latest version with patch included….
http://www.savefile.com/files/6401441
you just have to do a little thing…….
1)when adding new download turn transport setting into 1
2)in other settings go to streaming tab and in MMS select HTTP stream and port 80…. thats all….. now you can enjoy every video with resume download…if connection is DC just put new url from lyfox of same vdo and start downloadin again……..isnt this great?

Question: In LyFOX, I get an error message invalid input…does anyone know why or how to fix?

hey guys
theres a problem
after i download a bit say about 2mb
then restart my comp and once again start downloading,
it doesnt work
why so?

Hi
hello everyone.i’m new to this site.i used SDP and after i pase the yahoo mms url i get an error like this
TCP network timing packets received
> Server Error Message : You do not have access to the location or file
> Disconnected
does anyone know what to do?

Same here. LyFox displays the different artists but when I try to retrieve the mms it shows up as blank. Please help.

i hav to same

why -worked fine untilk nowbut niow no mms stream !?!??!

HELP

im having the same problem that carlos and paul and these other guys are having. no mms code shows up after clicking on the videos. anyone know why this is happening or how to fix this problem?

hoping you guys get an update so we can get more of yahoo’s goodies, thanks again you do superb work :)

You don’t install lyfox you just unzip it and use whichever operating system you have windows or mac. I also hope there is an update soon

I just stumbled across the website and have unzipped lyfox, i’m a windows user, however when i type in the artist name it displays the results but no mms is displayed. What do i do? I’m trying to download some vids.