zasos's Journal: saving youtube vidoes

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194096&cid=15910653 http://www.hiphopmusic.com/best_of_youtube/2006/02/how_to_download_and_save_youtu.html[hiphopmusic.com] http://www.tian.cc/2005/11/how-to-save-flash-videos-from-youtube.html[www.tian.cc] These are two of the sites I turned to when I wanted to learn how to download YouTube videos. Basically, the premise is that you have to change the url to get it to download as a file and then convert it from an .FLV file into something else. Example: open "View Page Source" and do a text search for "player2.swf?video_id=" change this: player2.swf?video_id=b4Knsablahblahblah to this: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=b4Knsabl ahblahblah [youtube.com] Then save the file and convert it to, say, AVI. I use CinemaForge for this. ---- To store YouTube videos on your own machine, get the VideoDownloader extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/[mozilla.org]. Then go to the page for the YouTube (or Google Video or whatever) page of your choice, and click on their icon. A window pops up and you click on a button to download the actual .flv video. That's in Flash video format, which you'll probably want a player for: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated [martijndevisser.com]. Now you can run that (on a Windows machine at least) and play .flv videos from YouTube locally. Voila! --- In Addition to the other suggestions I offer youtube-dl chock full of "Cross Platform Command Line Goodness" http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ [arrakis.es] You're Welcome It seems that this is presicely what is meant by how the internet is a World of Ends [worldofends.com]. As upload capability becomes more and more prevalent, it will become more representative of the global population. The question then becomes- Is this a good thing? Shallow content [shallowhalmovie.com], rumormonging [snopes.com], and misinformation [venganza.org] will lead to a populace that is more popular, but will it be more true?