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Save YouTube Videos To Your Hard Drive
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fridy
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10. December 2007 @ 22:49 |
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YouTube and other video sharing sites provide endless hours of wholesome, time-wasting entertainment. But what if you want to watch movies without the browser? There's no direct or easy way to download YouTube videos from the site, but thankfully there are ways to make a local copy for personal use. A number of tools exist to save a video for playback on your computer, iPod, iPhone, PSP and even your boring old DVD player.
Using Firefox
The easiest solution if you're a Firefox user is to install the Download Helper add-on. Download Helper can handle much more than just YouTube -- in fact the add-on can grab just about any media file from nearly any source and download it to your machine. There are also a couple of other Firefox plugins, notably Video Downloader, though the latest YouTube site update seems to be interfering with Video Downloader's ability to grab video for some users.
Using Other Desktop Software
If you're not a Firefox user, don't worry, there's some other options. My Video Downloader is a Windows program that will download movies from YouTube, though it will set you back $30 (there's a free trial that allows for 10 downloads so you can test it).
Mac users looking to go from YouTube straight over to your video iPod or AppleTV have a couple options. There's Podtube 2 which will download and convert files from YouTube, Daily Motion and MySpace. PodTube 2 is $5. TubeSock 2.0 offers similar features, though it only handles YouTube videos, and costs $15.
The latest RealPlayer (version 11, a beta release, is $30 and supports Windows XP and Vista only) has the ability to download and burn videos clips from YouTube and other sites like Google Video and MySpace Video. The player will automatically add a "Download" link button to video pages in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Once downloaded, you can use the player to watch the videos or burn them to a DVD.
Although it hasn't been released yet, there's also a lot of talk surrounding Tubular, which looks a bit like iTunes applied to YouTube. Look for Tubular to enter the public beta phase later this year.
And finally, the most primitive -- but definitely free and working -- method is to use SaveTube.com. Just paste in the YouTube URL and SaveTube will find the cached file and give you a download link. Here is a collection of some other free youtube video downloader to download youtube video on your Personal Computer.
What to Do With Your Downloaded Video
Unless you're using one of the all-in-one solutions listed above, once you've pulled down the Flash FLV file from YouTube or another video sharing site, you'll need to convert it to another format for viewing in QuickTime (which includes iTunes and AppleTV) or Windows Media Player.
You can use FLV Converter to convert the .flv file to any most popular video formats.
Alternately you can just use an FLV capable media player like the excellent and free VLC (all platforms).
To convert your FLV file on a Mac you can use iSquint, which is free though limited to output in MP4, or through the aforementioned TubeSock. For Windows folks there's Super, which is free, or Zillatube, which costs $30. Both support a wide range of output options.
Mac and Windows users can also try MPEG Streamclip, though Windows folks will need to download the Windows version of Apple QuickTime, which is also free.
Linux users can turn to ffmpeg (which also works on OS X and Windows). You'll need a little command line juice, but this conversion script should get you started:
ffmpeg -i myFile.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 myFile.mpg
And there you have it, now you can watch your YouTube favorites anywhere you'd like in nearly any video format you can name.
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10. December 2007 @ 23:18 |
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sweet thats pretty cool
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FoilWrap
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12. December 2007 @ 03:45 |
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I use Opera 9.00. Most FLV files are dropped by Opera in the cache when you play them at YouTube. Sometimes they are saved as .FLV files and sometimes as .TMP files. Here is where the Opera cache folder is found in my XP installation:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\cache4
If you browse to there and arrange all files by date, the FLV file should be among the newest ones listed. Also you can arrange them by size, as video files are usually larger than others. If it's a .TMP file change the extension to .FLV and use Explorer to collect them to a dedicated folder.
Get the free FLV player (can anyone here provide the link?) to play these back.
Rich
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Abhi262
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12. December 2007 @ 14:14 |
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also, try www.convertdirect.com
careful though, the site is often overloaded so try going on at off-peak times
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ohny217
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13. December 2007 @ 03:16 |
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pretty good, thanks for your help. I will try them~~~
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ohny217
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27. December 2007 @ 04:32 |
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I have tried most of tool you guys said, they are really useful, thanks again~~~
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birdcat24
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27. December 2007 @ 19:46 |
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Dawg that off the chain!!! lemme ask you somethin'... How about VEOH Movies will it do it too????
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ohny217
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28. December 2007 @ 02:51 |
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Veoh video file type is not FLV format,and it even does not allow to upload FLV files directly. then this will inevitably increase the volume of video a lot, so downloadeding videos to the local would be a better option if you do not have enough bandwidith. And it is a pity that the Veoh's local client software does not support the downloading while watching. You can download videos by "Veoh TV" for free, and the P2P technique makes the downloading speed faster~~~
But I prefer Youtube and flv format for the fast watching speed and smaller file size, and the flv converter tool "fridy" said is so convenient and flexible~~~
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bulldogz
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9. January 2008 @ 13:14 |
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Originally posted by birdcat24:
Dawg that off the chain!!! lemme ask you somethin'... How about VEOH Movies will it do it too????
To download original veoh files go here.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. January 2008 @ 13:17
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fridy
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5. February 2008 @ 08:34 |
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thanks, I will try this one.
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raab170
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10. February 2008 @ 05:01 |
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use vixy.net that works for me :) pretty easy too
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11. February 2008 @ 19:19 |
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TOTAL SCAM, download the suggested Firefox plugin, following the instructions, can't download SHITE.
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