Webcasts!!!!

Don't you hate it when the scheduled Microsoft webcasts happened while you were sleeping? Well, if you are located in Asia like me, then you know how I felt. If it's on weekends, I will stay up late, till about 3am just to attend one that I don't want to miss :)  Of coz, you can view it on demand (after quite a 'long' time), wouldn't it be nice if we can download it and view it at anytime you like. This is true during the past with Interwise, but now with the Placeware (live meeting) you can't download it, you either get a popcorn watch it live or view the by demand online after it's been recorded.

So I rant!! few times since last year :) all I get were 'we are working on it....bla bla bla'. I ping Chris few weeks ago, and he forwarded me a cool link on how to download webcasts, it works !!! I have tested it with 5 IIS webcasts. All you need is the vbs script + net-transport download agent ! don't forget to change this constant in the script -

Const EVENTPAGE =  "http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032255809&Culture=en-US"

Change it to the webcast URL that you wish to download.

The complete steps:
a) create the vbs script
b) install net-transport
c) change the constant value
d) execute the vbs script
e) open net-transport, specify where to save it, number of connections use, and etc.
f) open the downloaded webcast with Windows Media Player.