There was an earlier thread about trying to save copies of streaming videos from zdf.de for viewing in weeks where I had more time. There the thread was mainly about why paying to upgrade QuickTime to QuickTime Pro to get a Save Video function didn't help.

Later I discovered that the basic (old) methods work - but only in one case, which is odd. What follows below started out as a comment to that earlier blog but simply became too long.

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What's even odder is that in one XPPro system (Murphy's Law means it's the slowest machine in the house) I can find the .mov file in the Internet Explorer cache and can copy it across to another place in the file system and play it.

In Vista and in the dual-booted XPPro on that machine, the .mov file (theoretically created in the same way by running the video in Quick Time to the end) doesn't appear.

(and, Yes, I have checked the locations - the only difference is that where it IS working I've changed the default location in IE; where it isn't working I haven't).

Thinks: could it be that the old IEPro is IE6 and the new IE7 ??

P.S. Of course my Mac knowledge is such that I haven't a clue where to look for the Safari cache !

P.P.S. Yesterday my Internet access was down so I decided that this was a perfect opportunity to go to that IE6 machine and play back the .mov file. Guess what !? It didn't work. It turned out that was a stub too ... Ah well, back to the drawing board.