The procedure outlined above for retrieving "videos" from the "Arte" (
http://liveweb.arte.tv/searchEvent.do?method=displayElements) has not been functioning for me since February. I frustratingly encountered the problem just as I was about to obtain their
Parsifal. The reason for this turn of events I still do not know, but I have now discovered a rather better and simpler method which Members may be interested in learning about. It is called
"Artepupper 0.3" and may be obtained here:
It comes with a short but clear
.pdf file describing its use. I edited the
.config file, so as to reflect the name of the directory I installed it to; and it has functioned very well. There are at present over two hundred high-quality "videos" available under the rubric "classique" alone. For example, the
Matthew Passion from Leipsic - presumably THE version to have: 1,510,320,187 bytes.