It’s amazing to me that, just because I use a computer every day, so many of my friends and family think I’m an IT guy, inasmuch as I really don’t know shit from shinola. However, once in a while I come across something useful to pass on. Here’s something that I get asked once in a while: “How do I save a video from YouTube(etc)? Easy peasy, and probably old hat to you lot, but just in case…
1) Go to the video you want, then copy the link/address to it…
2) Go to VideoDl.org and paste the link/address in the space provided…
3) Once it says to download it, save it, but make sure you change the name of the file so that it is a FLV type (ex. – call it CrampsGarbageman.flv)…
4) Replay it with a free Flash/FLV player (such as Flvplayer) …I think this is the one I got, but it’s been a while).
Got a better method? Care to share?
There’s a sweet app called TubeSock for Mac OS X and Windows users. It’s not free, but it is only $15.
http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/
From their website:
“TubeSock 2.0 downloads YouTube or DailyMotion videos from the web and saves them to your video iPod, Mac, or PlayStation Portable. TubeSock knows how to convert the video using the codecs and bitrates best for each device. It can even add the video to iTunes for you.”
just type “kiss” in front of the url.
if you want the video at this address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbe4FRt4C_s
type this:
http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=gbe4FRt4C_s
Arestube is a free program that runs similarly to tubesock as far as I can tell, and it’s reasy to use.
well if your on a unix box, you can convert these flv’s to avi’s quickly with the vixy.net package which just makes it easier to use ffmpeg. unfortunately they have not packaged it well.
goto: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=183657
download via subversion the package and compile up the app.
It’ll converts these flv files quickly too..
(if I find time I’ll make a freebsd port for it)
If you use Firefox, install this: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
Allows you to download directly from Firefox.
If you also get the K-Lite codec pack to work, you should be able to play .FLV files in Windows Media Player.
You can get several different plugins for Firefox that’ll download the video. One’s called VideoDownloader (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/). You could convert the flv to something else, or you can download VLC, which will play flv just fine. And as an added bonus, it plays just about anything on Earth, with the exception of Betamax.
I always use http://www.keepvid.com, works fine to me also for Googlevids. To convert I use erightsofst super.