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Visual Basic Coding

In VB6, how does one extract text data from a webpage? For instance, if I was searching the HPI database, how would I get the program to extract the cars details from the following page, assuming that the numberplate is a variable, and so therefore are the car details? An example HPI page is here

View the source code of the web page. It is all text. Just pick through it and take out the text you want. Or - you can write a cool AI that knows how to view web pages and detect what is content and what is garbage, then slap a search engine on top of that and surpass Google as the kind-daddy of all search engines. Youth in Asia 20:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Audio / Video Capture

I wish to obtain software which will enable me to directly capture audio and video clips, or failing that audio only clips. I have the files I wish to capture clips from, although they are all in a variety of obscure codec formats and are too large to suit my purposes (hence why I seek to obtain clips). Is there a free program which I can use to directly capture audio or video from these files if I were to play them in Windows Media Player or a similar application, essentially like a screen capture for sound and/or video?

I'm pretty sure VLC media player can do that. Just play a file and stream the output to another file. I have never done it myself, but I have always been very happy with VLC. Jon513 16:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is a way to do it with VLC, but it's complicated and I don't know how to. I recommend Audacity for audio and Camstudio for video (both open source). --Russoc4 18:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

flashplayer doesnt have sound

I have a macintosh and flashplayer won't play any sound in flash content. What should I do? Ilikefood 22:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I occasionally have a similar problem with Quicktime as well as Flash, and worked out another program (Audacity, I suspect) had changed the MIDI settings. Try the following: got to /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup, look under "Built In Output" - if it's set to 96KHz, change it to 44KHz, this has fixed several audio problems in the past. --Canley 02:18, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]