Saving a YouTube Video

[Superman]

How would someone save a YouTube video onto a disk?

[K9Torro]

+1

[slodave]

There is a third party module (a few) for Firefox it installs itself into the main FF toolbar and when content is available, it lights up and you can save the file - works with multiple file types. The module I installed, requires a ".flv" player, easily downloaded free. Mine is called DownloadHelper.

[Superman]

I was hoping for a point-and-click solution like saving pictures.

[imcarthur]

You find the temp file in your internet browser temp file. If you just played it, it will be the last file & it will be big. You copy this file elsewhere & rename it with an .flv extention.

You need a player for flv though. Most will but windows media player won't. Irfanview does & VLC.

I don't know the background of WHY this works, but it does.

Ian

[imcarthur]

I just went to YouTube - Music Videos & watched Alicia Keys "No One"

Here is where it is in my temp file in Windows XP Pro:



The get_video?video_id= . . . file that is 10 MB.

Ian

[rcecale]

Just happened to see this on ebaum'sworld...

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/59390/

Here's a link to the Sothink web site to download their free version...

http://www.sothinkmedia.com/web-video-downloader/index.htm

Randy

[kycarguy 935]

I use:

http://vixy.net/

I hope this helps.

[porsche4life]

I use savetube.
http://www.savetube.com/
just copy and paste the url of the vid and click go then download the file that it gives you.

[id10t]

http://www.downloadhelper.net/

I use this firefox extension (or read web page source code and get the URL) and you can view them locally with VLC and convert to other formats with ffmpeg (both these are Linux native but there are Windows builds)