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- krillion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71sweet now I can watch blurry videos on my 54 inch flat screen :)
- Optimus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19For ***** and giggles.
- unamas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15convert it...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Perfect! just what I was looking for. Thanks.
- Phanatic1a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If you can find me a source for random and obscure 1980s music videos on high-quality DVD, go ahead and link to it.
Until then, I have no problem downloading and transcoding these things and putting them on my iPod. - ShaolinTiger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I prefer Keepvid
http://keepvid.com/
Bookmarklet next to the logo. - Dihuko, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Uhh...why would I want to watch bad quality videos on my big screen?
- RBotros, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8is there any web interface that would convert the video?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9some tom waits videos are hard to come by. :-)
- jakatak, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Krillion said it best.
If I was desperate enough to spend hours looking for one youtube video worth putting on dvd then download other programs then convert then burn then watch the blurry damn thing on my 50 inch HD plasma, I might as well spend that time getting a FRIGGIN JOB (and life) and buying the real DVD.
there is a point where it's easier to do the legal thing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Save YouTube's videos on file ?
people want to save these videos on their hard drive?
Burn them on a DVD !!!!!?? !!!!
where am i ? is this the Internet ? what's going on ?
please take me back to 1995. please. - DancingSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You don't need to do these extra steps for google video. Simply use the 'Save Google Video as AVI' Bookmarklet:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/download-google-videos-as-avi-files.html - xanik266, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have to agree with Krillion here... it might be convinient if you want to watch it on your computer later, but certainly not big screens. The quality's just not there.
Yet another reason why the MPAA and other organizations don't have to worry about this technology... yet. - Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Crap-Free link below:
http://tinyurl.com/zxgsr - misteryxz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A much better bookmarklet: http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html
Supports Google Video, YouTube and others.
Also available as Greasemonkey-script. - drchadwick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stuff gets pulled off YouTube all the time for copyright reasons. Bookmark it and you might be screwed when you come back next month and it's gone. So get it while you can, convert it to a format you can easily play, and squirrel it away on your hard drive or a disc.
- Fredx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4hmm MediaCoder wont run for me, crashes out on start *shrugs* but the downloaded content plays fine in VLC media player
- Ollin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yea its perfect how they explain how to do it too :)
- dexp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For mac, open the Activity window, find the flv file on the page you're looking at, double click to download. Then use ffmpegX to convert to AVI or whatever.
- sillygates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4or the greasemonkey script on userscripts.org :) (adds a one click button)
- drchadwick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4why? because sometimes there are things on youtube that just aren't easily available anywhere else. Personally, I find it a lot easier to relax on the couch with my feet up than hunched over the stupid computer. If I can convert a bunch of videos, dump them on my video iPod, and enjoy them in the living room, so much the better.
- kdubbz6688, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OK Question Why does This thing do this: It Plays the Video to fast, or it starts the audio to late because the words are off from the video. Wtf is up with this???
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5yeah. or if they would make an os x or linux version...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Super has always worked well for me. I've converted a bunch of .FLV's I've gotten from Youtube, and they play perfectly. While I could use VLC, I like to be able to fast forward and rewind, and you can't do that with .FLV's. And you can't play them on mp3 players.
- gailwin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i was looking for this for a while now...
thanks!
+1 digg - fusioned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and for us OS X users?
- robotsongs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2update:
I was pissed at this too, but then I tried SUPER like people were suggesting and everything works fine... seems like there's more options with it too.
I was trying to convert this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8P4fE8Yn0&search=Rube%20Goldberg
definitely worth saving. - bamfsog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3For the people offering alternatives, thanks. To the people asking "Who would download this crap!', me. If you don't fine, this isn't for you.
Do we need post after post of people questioning who would do this? I've downloading clips from old TV shows, unaired pilots, and some fairly funny amateur stuff just for the hell of it.
If there is nothing appealing to you on the video hosting sites, that's OK. If you would rather bookmark a video than download it, go ahead. I don't see the need to come in an complain because other people do something you don't. - 1024k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I recommend using Media Player Classic and ffdshow. That allows for flawless fast forward/rewind with FLV files.
MPC: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358
ffdshow: http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Getting+ffdshow
My video bookmarklets: http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html - tmcdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2anyone ese having audio sync problems with to flv to anything transcoding?
or is this a symptom of having 200+ codecs of my system? - misteryxz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Peekvid uses YouTube video files. Click the YouTube logo on the video and the YouTube page for the clip will open up. On the newly opened page use the bookmarklet/greasemonkey-script I linked to below in order to save the Flash video file. Works fine for me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We understand that. But if you want to watch it on your Ipod or other MP3 Player, you can't use .FLV.
- falcoboy7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://clipnabber.com is also useful for downloading streaming web videos
- dunstdunst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://myspacetrain.co.uk
- Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still can't a certain myspace video to encode. Doesn't matter what combination of options or encoder I try nothing works.. The mecoder keeps crashing, damn it!
- tolkein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's another neat website that lets you download directly from the browser without any software installation or plugins - http://www.saveyoutube.com
- falcoboy7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use http://clipnabber.com for downloading the online videos
then if I can't use iSquint to convert it, I'll use http://zamzar.com (which is kinda slow but works when you aren't at home or something) - dunstdunst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://tastymp3.com
- brightmarc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Me I use http://www.savetube.com it also has tools to convert from flv to avi or mpg with tutorials. Very simple site with a latest downloaded section, a must see.
- robotsongs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm waiting hear the answer to this and every other 50 people who are having this problem (myself included.)
- brightmarc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use http://www.savetube.com, it's must better with some funky features and tools.
- notbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A month ago Myspace chnaged it's FLV files. I can't download them anymore.
VideoDownloader and the Grease Monkey script doesn't find the file.
Any ideas? - lazyron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or linux users?
- gilsmethod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just posted a pdf version of the instructions on the forum for easier accesability...
http://www.gilsmethod.com/htdownloadvideosfromtheinternet - jccalhoun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Video Downloader doesn't work because the site uses frames. Right click and go to this frame. show only that frame or open frame in new window or tab. Then video downloader works fine.
- wilkeson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, same here. +/- 2 seconds. As far as I can tell it starts off fine, but get's out of synch pretty early on.
- Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Riva doesn't work on myspace videos. Hopefully this will. I'll have to wait till I get out of work to try it. Thanks in advance in case this does work.
- DubbleA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MediaCoder Is the exact program that I was looking for. I used the Total Media Converter (http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/) to convert the .flv files. Some people might like TMC better because the comapny offers support and has more functions. TMC is not freeware however...
- Joga5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Same here, the audio is about 2 seconds behind the video. I've tried using different audio/video codecs, but nothing seems to be working.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Replying to "Critic"
Have you tried out Super? http://www.download.com/SUPER/3000-2140_4-10557837.html It's converted .flv's to AVI's just perfectly. -
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