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Saturday, April 07, 2007
Saving YouTube videos
I just stumbled over Smosh. Man, there's some bad acting out there!! :)
I was testing Tube Sock, a $15 solution for saving YouTube videos to my Mac. It seems to work fine, so I'll probably cough up, unless I find a good free solution.
- Load the page containing the video in Safari - Go to the Window menu and select Activity (or whatever it's called in English) - Scroll through the list and find a .flv file, which will typically be a few megabytes in size - Double clic to download, and use VLC or another FLV player for playback.
You may not be able to fast-forward through the video, though...
Stop coughing, Eolake, decent free solutions exist. I've already posted this on "iTunes and Extreme Engineering", but it looks like you've been too busy lately, so here it is again. Simple and efficient!
Try this on for size: http://videodl.org. Download the free 1.85 MB FLV Player installer, and you can save YouTube and Google videos on your PC to view them offline at your leisure. It took me more than two hours on my dial-up connection to receive the Marx Bros "Night at The Opera" sequence (15 MB!), but it was not wasted time. Now I don't have to pay for hourly online time and wait 2 new hours every time I want to watch it. :-))) All you need to know is on the page on the address above.
Actually there's a solution using Safari:
ReplyDelete- Load the page containing the video in Safari
- Go to the Window menu and select Activity (or whatever it's called in English)
- Scroll through the list and find a .flv file, which will typically be a few megabytes in size
- Double clic to download, and use VLC or another FLV player for playback.
You may not be able to fast-forward through the video, though...
Stop coughing, Eolake, decent free solutions exist.
ReplyDeleteI've already posted this on "iTunes and Extreme Engineering", but it looks like you've been too busy lately, so here it is again. Simple and efficient!
Try this on for size: http://videodl.org.
Download the free 1.85 MB FLV Player installer, and you can save YouTube and Google videos on your PC to view them offline at your leisure. It took me more than two hours on my dial-up connection to receive the Marx Bros "Night at The Opera" sequence (15 MB!), but it was not wasted time. Now I don't have to pay for hourly online time and wait 2 new hours every time I want to watch it. :-)))
All you need to know is on the page on the address above.
I tried it, but it did not work for me.
ReplyDeleteBut now I updated my Flash player (VLC player), and now both Damien's method and Pascal's work for me. Kewl.
After Smosh try the best card trick in the world. It's a YouTube classic.
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