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Authored by: tomholio on Thu, Mar 6 2008 at 2:28PM PST

I just type wget (or if that is not available, simply ftp will do just fine, as well) in Terminal.app and paste the URL of the movie. I can then just double-click the resulting file while it's being downloaded. Presto! (Alternatively a open -a vlc PATH_TO_FILE in another Terminal window will achieve the same without needing to resort to the mouse)

but very nice config hints!
Authored by: tomholio on Thu, Mar 6 2008 at 2:33PM PST

I wanted to add that the 'Be quiet' and 'Interface interaction' feature mentioned in the original hint are really sweet! Thanks!