For all of you who want to put these on your iPod video, or just watch them in something other than VLC, here’s a tutorial:

http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t259578.html

what is w/c?

none of this is working. greasemonkey will not install because “greasemonkey only works on firefox 1.0.” yet, only firefox 1.5 is available.

Damn dis is nice!

the rules of the game have to be changed now that Greasemonkeying Google is obsolete. They have their own .GVI file format, and their vids only play in the new Google video player.
Tip: think before you buy; look for free videos online before you put down money for the same videos on Google.

i wrote a perl/tk script about a month ago that lets you automatically browse and download and convert files automatically to native window media player formats (msmpeg4v2) and lets you use two-pass encoding (small size/good quality). It uses mencoder (from mplayer) to encode.oh yes, it also displays the preview pictures. it weighs in at 4.15mb without the 7.58mb mencoder.exe. i packaged it into a binary windows executable. i’ll put it up on a filehosting service if anyone is interested. also, i know there are youtube apis out but i haven’t really taken the time to look into it since im learning perl. and i think there may be a way to download the google videos regardless of what they say. i reason that since no new codecs were needed to watch the videos, the format could probably be decoded. i’ll do some packet sniffing to determine the file locations when i get the time.

edit: *release the code if anyone’s interested

Can anyone know how to download from http://www.freevideoblog.com. Thanks, much appreciated

does anyone know how to transfer files to movie clips?

I dont know how to change the extension from php to flv

I don’t have any problem renaming the file from .php to .flv before I download it or after I download it. But the quality loss sucks. Is there a way to get a .php file converted to an .flv file without any quality loss? I’ve tried the VLC media player as well as FLV Player and FLV Player-S and the quality is inferior in all of them, so I’m thinking it happens when the file name is changed. Anyone know how to fix this? I haven’t seen anyone else post about this anywhere which seems weird…

Export flv to iTunes: After expirmenting for about half an hour, did you know that you can export flv videos to iTunes/iPod compatible format only using VLC (no quicktime pro needed!)?

Just “Stream Output” as your familiar with if you’ve downloaded yahoo videos. Check the file box and name you file with a .m4v or .mp4 extension. Click MP4 for encapsulation. Check the video codec and use your codec. I’m a extreme fan of H.264, if you didn’t know that already, so I use that. Finally Check the Audio codec and choose mp4a. I’d tone down the bitrate to something like 128, just cause its not nessisary (i spelled that wrong) to use 192: the quality is already bad. Then click ok and ok. Wait a couple minutes and when done, drag into itunes. Okay, that’s my tip of the night.

Works great, Thanks.

Chris

Guys its so simple:

http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

get a flv player.

Done.

GG

to download videos off google in mp4 format, select downloads for psp or ipods

nevermind bud, i just figured it out. it was all my fault. gotta learn to reeeaadd better!! lol Thanks agian for the update

how can i get my new flv video on to my psp?

Yumi - Download PSP Video 9 (just google it.) It will convert most any file over to play onm your PSP including .FLV

I’m trying to get some clips for Windows Movie Maker but that looks impossible

Hi! This is amazing but i have a problem, when i select save as, the file doesn’t appear, what can i do???

i tried firefox and vdownloader, both dont work anymore. it all packed up from working at 11.00 am today

Ahh, I was so close. Encoding failed. What’s the deal?

Friend of mine did a workaround:

http://ztmnews.kernel.pl/mls/youtubetome.user.js

This uses PHP script to get proper v__.youtube.com server where __ is number (I believe from 1 to 300 now). http://ztmnews.kernel.pl/mls/youtube.php

Enjoy.

windows xp & IE:load the video,copy it from the temporary internet files.
use a converter(ImToo).
set back:the new video is a lot bigger than the original file.

Um..IS this legal?

why wont mine work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve tried everything and nothing seems to work. I hope someone comes up with a script that will take the (censored) who run YouTube a while to beat. I’m really starting to hate YouTube. Sorry for the rant.

its not working for me grease isnt working right when i download it

worked perfectly for me but i went to red bar at top of http://www.youtube.com,right clicked and saved file as *********.flv . I use firefox and opened it from downloads box under tools in my browser . Bloody rippa , good work fella’s because i really wanted to sang a certain video off there cheers jacko

me so hungry - you give food to me now

:( anyone?

Videodownloader.net does not work know!

Why?

sometimes I get vids with no adress the adress looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id= ..when I try to save I get an error messege so how can i download those….

Meh, I download FLV’s and .SWF’s in Safari all day and night.

I just use the activity monitor.

I then use iSquint to change the format.

i downloaded the video from youtube and it plays how do i save can i change it so i can put it into my ipod? i have a converter but it wont open the file

HELP!
i followed all of the steps and i saved my file from youtube in the ‘.flv’ format but it didn’t come out at FLV format and the vlc player won’t read it…
what should i do??

This was so simple, reading the comments of the people above that cannot get it to work makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Follow ALL the instructions listed above this comment section starting with the words “For the uninitiated…” Make sure you have Firefox 1.5.x, get the greasemonkey extension, download and install VLC media player. After you install the greasemonkey extension (click the “now” link), click the You Tube to Me link to install the userscripts. Just click the link and follow the instructions. It’s simple. After all this is done, shut down and restart Firefox. DONE.
Go to a YouTube video and you will see the red bar with the save link. I saved a video as get_video. Then I navigated to the file, changed the name to what I wanted, added the .flv extension. Clicked the file and it played in the VLC Media Player. It took me 5 minutes. It’s not that I am a computer genius. (I am somewhere above intermediate). I just followed the instructions step by step.

anotehr site that is useful for downloading videos is http://clipnabber.com
you can download videos from youtube in flv and you can also download videos from a bunch of the other major ones

I’m sorry. That was a stupid question^^^

Here’s another one. I know almost nothing about computers. How do I install the userscript YouTube to me in Greasemonkey?

Hey well i have managed to get to the point of having the red bar at the top of the page on youtube videos. However when i right click and go into ’save link as’ , i cant put the file type to flv. It is totaly blank and nothing can be entered ! What can I do ?!

oops…i found some thing…
check this out..hope it helps..it from the site “http://keepvid.com/faq/”

How do I rename to .flv?

To change to .flv, find your downloaded file and change the file extension from .php to .flv

If there is no extension, then simply add .flv to the filename.

You may need to enable file extensions if you cannot see the .php:
- In any folder on your hard drive go to “Tools” > “Folder Options” > “View” tab then scroll down to “Hide extensions for known file types” and uncheck that box.
Click “OK” to save changes. Now you should see the file extension which you can rename.

Those who don’t have Firefox or GreaseMonkey (ie. used Internet Explorer :-

Go to the Temporary Internet Folder (Windows) under
C:\Documents and Settings\—-appropriate username—–\local settings
and search for the get_video….. (file with name starting with this).
Double click on it and it will open up a dialogue box to ask where you
want to download file to. Save the file, and change its extension to flv, eg. videoname.flv
You will then see that the next thing will be the downloading in progress.
After completing the download, use an FLV player or VLC media player to open and run the file.

The above method do not require any scripts. But you need to search for the temporary file in the Windows folder mentioned above.

Hmmm. I was updating my guitar online lessons and found a link to a video on youtube (never been to youtube before) and couldn’t download the vid. I started looking around and came across the info as to how to get the vid into my files. The first thing I had to do was update Firefox to 2.0. the rest was quite straightforward even for this grade 10 educated 65 year old on meds (not to mention surviving the 70’s).
Be patient, it works

10

…. I download all my videos from youtube with KeepV.com

some days ago, i got a web adress which helped me get the link of flv files from youtube.com;but i have forgotten the address.can anyone help me?

hello if u wanna get any you tube videos without any head akes contact me through my email i:D cash4ak@yahoo.com ill be waiting because this method is so easy that you dont need any kingd of extension either come on come on

this stuff is alot of work. Getting youtube vids u like save is a must because youtbue is starting to censor the bloody internet. KeepV.com seems to be working and is VERY easy. PLUS the RED BAR is gone so this whole site instuctions is useless.

Looking for an easier way? I have been using http://MyVideoDownloader.com

It downloads from MANY sites and then converts to MANY different formats. Pretty easy to use too.

i use ie 7. whenever i try to open the site http://www.youtubex.com my browser colses giving an error. this does not happen with any other page…..plz help

I am trying to download tv shows and am having a heck of a time doing it. The shows are at this site: http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/2

I have installed firefox and video downloader extensions but can not get anything to work. I keep getting “open socket” errors.

Can somebody try to download a show to their system and if they are successfull PLEASE tell me the steps to do it myself?

Thank you

how to downlaod youtube videos in hard drive i tried it from 6 month before , i recently use Replay Media Catcher but is doesn’t work…. can somebody help me??????????????

How to download FLV videos from YouTube?

which others site rather than http://www.keepvid.com lets u download flv files.,.. n yes sometimes even keepvid doesnt allow u to download flv’s so pls advice

m0ck you helped me alot

Use ‘flv downloader’

It is very easy to download videos from youtube,Google Video, Myspace, Metacafe, Dailymotion, iFilm, Music, eVideoShare, StreetFire, etc. off to your computer’s hard drive free. , and it downloads fast too..

It works very well for me… http://www.flvsoft.com/download_flv/

Try out the netvideohunter Firefox addon. It can download from any videosite with two clicks.
http://netvideohunter.com