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how do you DL youtube videos?

GuzzoGuzzo 8,611 Posts
edited January 2009 in Strut Central
I'm trying to get a bunch of footage of ziggyfish, walrusses and kangaroos for some show I'm presenting to Animal planet.problem is I'm a technological retard. is there a program I can use to pull footage from youtube?

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  • troublemantroubleman 1,928 Posts
    I use:
    keepvid.com
    or
    vixy.net

  • UnherdUnherd 1,880 Posts
    vixy.net will let you do it, but it hasn't worked 100% of the time for me. Can't really vouch for the quality either, but its easy and web based...
  • troublemantroubleman 1,928 Posts
    vixy.net will let you do it, but it hasn't worked 100% of the time for me. Can't really vouch for the quality either, but its easy and web based...

    In my opinion, Vixy has the best quality, but you have to do your downloading at weird times or else the server will always be too busy.

    On the other hand, keepvid is always working and you can download youtubes with the quickness. I've made a couple mixed DVD's where I needed them fast and Keepvid worked like a charm.
  • thewaxbanditthewaxbandit 112 Posts
    there are a few Firefox plugins which work

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=video+download&cat=all

    i think they generally save them as flash files

    peace

    b
  • MortiMorti 68 Posts
    Here:
    http://pwnyoutube.com/
  • Controller_7Controller_7 4,052 Posts
    I love this one. It lets you choose the format you want it saved to. then it emails you a link when it's done.

    http://www.youconvertit.com/convertfiles.aspx
  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    The RealPlayer Downloader works well. I guess it's just built into the latest RealPlayer but it behaves like a separate application. I use OS X so I can only speak for that version. Anyway, it just sits in your dock and whenever you're viewing something on a site like YouTube, a download link is added to an ongoing list (only visible when you click on the icon).

    Of course, you end up with an FLV file which can then be converted to MP4 with a program like iSquint (on OS X).
  • m_dejeanm_dejean Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. 2,946 Posts
    If you're on a Mac, it's easy doing it from Safari.

    When you open your youtube video, go to Window->Activity Monitor (or press option+command+a).
    You'll se a log-like window showing all activity in all currently open windows/tabs.
    Find the activities for the youtube window, and look for the link that includes something like
    cache.googlevideo.com/get_video in the URL.
    That'll be the link to the embedded flash video file.
    Double-click on that link and it will automatically start downloading in the download manager.
    When the DL is done, you can play the resulting .flv file in Quicktime if you've installed the
    Perian component (http://www.perian.org/), or convert it to the format of your choice with whatever
    application you normally use for that. I think VLC can play .flv files too.
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