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- asssa3000, on 06/28/2008, -3/+38There are hundreds of these type tools. These ones are really good . The only one thing that really makes me wonder , why video sharing sites do not let it do by default. I totally understand the issue of copyrights, but i you can make it customizable and enable or disable download feature for certain videos.
- inactive, on 06/28/2008, -1/+24I got confused. I use DownloadThemAll for my MP3 downloads, and a extension called DownloadHelper for online videos.
Here's the Firefox link for the download.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/300 ...
When on youtube just click on it and download the FLV. Then download a converter to watch it locally or put the video on another hosting site, private youtube account, or whatever you want. - WallnutBoy, on 06/28/2008, -2/+14I may sound noobish.. But I'm assuming you're referring to DownThemAll! ? If you are, how do you download youtube videos with it? o.O
- PabloMac, on 06/29/2008, -0/+11Keep It Simple, Stupid.
- inactive, on 06/28/2008, -4/+14DownloadThemAll!
- netneutrality, on 06/29/2008, -1/+10I just watch the videos normally then copy them straight out of the Firefox cache folder. Sort the list of files by most recently modified first and look for a biggish one. Works for almost all video sites.
- Diggrock, on 06/28/2008, -3/+11If you have safari, you can open the activity window for the youtube page your browsing, double click on the video component, which is usually the biggest one. Once downloaded, just add the extension ".flv"
- netneutrality, on 06/29/2008, -4/+12Because it would greatly increase the bandwidth used if people downloaded nearly every video they watched.
- WallnutBoy, on 06/28/2008, -0/+7Thanks. Love you.
- str3ama, on 06/29/2008, -2/+8Am I the only one that thinks that article looked a lot like an advertorial?
- Wyattx17, on 06/29/2008, -0/+6I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/300 ... DownloadHelper, I can download any flash object including mp3's streaming, videos and whatever is embedded in flash. Then I convert to whatever I need with http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html.
- BlueStreak69, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5....which are 4 different ways.
- swoosh_bnd, on 06/29/2008, -1/+6Download helper is great
http://www.downloadhelper.net/ - Thorpe, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5Probably because of the revenue from sponsors they want from people visiting video pages.
- Spectangular, on 06/29/2008, -1/+6I like using http://keepvid.com - works for me.
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -2/+6http://www.zamzar.com/url/
I use that, and I can have it emailed to me in any format I like, including .avi, .mov, .flv, .mp3, .mp4, .aac and others. Because it is emailed, I do not necessarily need my own computer to get the file, just a disc. I have downloaded many at a library and burned them to a CD-R and taken them home. This was useful when I couldn't afford home internet. - JustinHopewell, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3After checking out the kissyoutube site, I started to feel that way.
- Apokalyps2547, on 06/29/2008, -2/+5Though if people wanted to rewatch some favorite videos, wouldn't 1 download be smaller than many streams?
I guess the real question is: how many streamed viewings would it take to equal or exceed the bandwidth spent on a single download? 2? 10? 100?
(I dugg you up) - Llanowar, on 06/29/2008, -1/+4I use vixy.net myself.
- 3leggedHorse, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2Greasemonkey script "download youtube as mp4"
- ninja0, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2i just use the firefox extension downloadhelper.
- doshindude, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2Nightly Tester Tools?
- tian2992, on 06/28/2008, -4/+6Nice, but MXtube is a really nice application for iPod Touch & iPhone http://mxweas.com/blog/ Still nice app to download MPEG4 videos.
- granny2k5, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2Wait, why would you want to download videos from youtube anyway?
- passedoutghost, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2What's the folder path?
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
- poxonyou, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2I used file2hd. It works with Myspace too. Very clean, simple website, like Google.
The best part is they have found how/where to access the original files before conversion. So, if the original MP3 uploaded was 320 kbps, you get that, not the 96kbps streaming version.
Same for Youtuibe videos. If the original was a high, HD quality MPEG4 file, that's exactly what you'll get, not an MPEG4 version of the crappy, compressed Youtube file. - synned, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3www.zamzar.com
- 3leggedHorse, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2As well as the sweet looking comments on digg, and the awesome looking google search.
Soz but cant explain how much greasemonkey is my top FF plugin. - crazycraka, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2Firefox.. Downloadhelper add-on nuff said..
- aenima987, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1That was the only one that worked for me :)
- azher, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1hey its great i found one interesting way here...try you may also find out and can rock on you tube lol
- sasquatchcrotch, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1Wow. Type about:cache in URL box, find your video, click the key link, and again. Download prompt comes, and you're in busniess. No add-ons, no programs, no whatever.
- Dylan47, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2This is a very good and helpful video, i implore everyone to watch it.
- countof5, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1about:cache?device=disk
or
about:cache?device=memory - Psyber1an, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3If you have RealPlayer installed, it puts a downoad link above the right corner when you cursor over the video...works LOTS of places, not just YouTube...
- davebo27, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1I like vixy.net
it lets you get the file into 5 different formats, the only problem is its a little unreliable. - countof5, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1Vimeo gives the option to allow people to download the original video file. Much better than downloading compressed .flvs .
- paloooz, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1This is how I do it in Safari. Window -> Activity. Then I find the flv which is like 4mb or so usually, copy it and paste it into the url bar. Then it downloads. Then I rename the file from get_video to whatever.flv.
- krunk4ever, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1I've always just allow the whole video to load in firefox and then went to my firefox cache and renamed the newest large file to a .flv. Works every time.
- broodking, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1orbit has always worked wonders for me on youtube and other video blog sites
- Fhwqhgads, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1DownloadHelper addon. Works with all video sites.
- tingrin87, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1the way we 'hack' a download, we're just streamstealing.
so, the download is the same as 1 pageview, as far as bandwidth. - passedoutghost, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1If you're using VLC you can play FLV files
- Totz83, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1You can easily do it by moving files from the temp to a permanent folder, no app is needed
- Thorpe, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2I use Zamzar sometimes since you'll give them the link, wait for it to upload and then just wait for an e-mail (without needing to stay on the page to let it convert to a variety of formats).
- Hangly, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2I noticed in Ubuntu (and probably other Linucies) that the flash player downloads the whole file to your temp folder anyway. Just copy it to the desktop or wherever and rename it.
- Ramenhood, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2Or use Freemusic Zilla...
- diecastbeatdown, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1i use python. down it all. =)
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