How to download a streaming silverlight video

By jaanu01
What is Silverlight?
Just a quick introduction. Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework that provides functionalities similar
to do!e "lash. #t allows streaming of multimedia content through a we! !rowser. $ftentimes% we need to
download the media so that we can view it offline.
&here are very few software%commercial or freeware% that allow downloading of the streaming videos as at
date. fter a thorough research% i have come across one such free tool.
View ISM and Manifest
$pen the source code of the page in your we! !rowswer and locate the .ism file. 'ormally% it will look like
http())mediadl.microsoft.com)mediadl)iisnet)smoothmedia)*+perience)BigBuckBunny,-.0p.ism.
dd )Manifest at the end of the /01 to view the manifest file in your !rowser.
http())mediadl.microsoft.com)mediadl)iisnet)smoothmedia)*+perience)BigBuckBunny,-.0p.ism)Manifest
2on3t worry if you don3t understand the manifest% we will need only the valid /01.
Download ISM Downloader
2ownload the free tool #SM 2ownloader and e+tract the contents. $pen the !atch file download.!at in a
notepad and replace the manifest file with your own and the directory you want to save the video
&his should look as ismdownloader 4http())www.mydomain.com)ism)Manifest4 45(6#SM6!unny.mkv4.
0un the download.!at. &he tool will stream the content to your directory and will merge all the fragments into
a single video.
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