Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2006 October 3

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 [https://www.hpicheck.com/consumer/?supplier=&vrm=N346%20VGM 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)

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)

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

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)

: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)