Downloading Woes

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:22 pm

Ive been wondering how would one download a video off of youtube because when i right click and press Save target as it just downloads its self as a HTML document. So the questin is how do i download a video off of youtube??

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:39 pm

I dont think you're supposed to be able to save the videos

I swear there used to be a "save as" function but it was removed a while ago

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:43 pm

theres some program or addon i think for Firfox that allows you to download movies from youtube and Google Video.

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:46 pm

i have that i think

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:57 pm

Go to the video that you want to download.
View the page's source.
Do a search for player2.swf
After that, there will be a long code. Put that code at the end of this url: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=
Then try pasting it into your browser or download manager. It should save the file, then just add .FLV to the filename and you're done.

If you need it in another format, there are plenty of free programs to convert the FLV into something else.

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:05 pm

http://www.keepvid.com

Paste the URL of the video's page (for example http://youtube.com/watch?v=pp1m_RBPeo8 ) into the box, select "YouTube", and click "Download".

If you're using Firefox and GreaseMonkey, there's a user script that can add a download link to the top of the page, but for some reason it doesn't work for me anymore.

You will need to play the videos with Media Player Classic or VLC, because they're .flv files. (oh right remember to save the fiels as [something].flv, NOT .htm!

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:18 pm

Wow, Bic, you just got up into the ranks of Jesus for that one!

dj-spuddy · Post by **dj-spuddy** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:20 am

http://www.youtubex.com

My friend showed me this the other day. Just paste in the vieo URL into the box and save the video in .flv format.