How do you save YouTube videos to hard drive?

Kenneth J. Harris wrote:
> Or dowload these 2 free programs: OrbitFLVdowloader(which captures the
> video as an FLV file, and FreezFLVtoAVI/MPG/WMV (which converts it to
> the file type kou want)

Further degrading the already crappy quality by lossy compressing it
again. If .flv is the "native" format, I'd just as soon have it on
that, unless it's something I feel the need to watch on something other
than my computer.

Tarkus

"Tarkus" <> wrote in message
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> Kenneth J. Harris wrote:
>> Or dowload these 2 free programs: OrbitFLVdowloader(which captures the
>> video as an FLV file, and FreezFLVtoAVI/MPG/WMV (which converts it to the
>> file type kou want)
>
> Further degrading the already crappy quality by lossy compressing it
> again. If .flv is the "native" format, I'd just as soon have it on that,
> unless it's something I feel the need to watch on something other than my
> computer.

In fact the AVI turns out bigger than the FLV, hence I don't think much
detail is lost. You are starting with a rather compressed file format to
begin with.

Mark W

Mark W wrote:
> "Tarkus" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Kenneth J. Harris wrote:
>>> Or dowload these 2 free programs: OrbitFLVdowloader(which captures the
>>> video as an FLV file, and FreezFLVtoAVI/MPG/WMV (which converts it to the
>>> file type kou want)
>> Further degrading the already crappy quality by lossy compressing it
>> again. If .flv is the "native" format, I'd just as soon have it on that,
>> unless it's something I feel the need to watch on something other than my
>> computer.
>
> In fact the AVI turns out bigger than the FLV, hence I don't think much
> detail is lost. You are starting with a rather compressed file format to
> begin with.

That's my point. And it doesn't matter if the AVI is 10 times bigger,
unless you're using a lossless codec, you're losing even more
information on an already crappy quality video.

To each their own. I'm only saying for my own purposes, I'd rather keep
the native format without degrading it further, unless for some reason I
want to watch the video away from my computer.

I hate to again say something positive about Real, but their player does
a nice job playing .flv files. Better than the FLV-specific players
I've tried. You can even get full screen, if you can stand the
compression artifacts.

Tarkus

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:04:20 GMT, "Sammy bin Snoozin"
<> wrote:

>How do you save YouTube videos to hard drive?
>
>


I use Firefox and this----
Works perfectly --

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006



The easy way to download Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.

DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to
capture video and image files from many sites.

Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can
do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to
download files by simply clicking an item

For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download
the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace,
Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others.

When you are on a page containing links to images or movies, you can
download some or all of them at once. Moving the mouse over the items in
the menu will highlights the links directly in the page to make sure
they are the ones you want to pick up.

DownloadHelper also allows you to download files one by one, so that you
keep bandwidth to surf for other stuff to download.

To modify your preferences, like changing the download directory,
right-click on the icon and choose "Preferences".

When you first install the extension, your browser is redirected to a
welcome page with links to a user manual at
http://www.downloadhelper.net/manual.php and a faq at
http://www.downloadhelper.net/faq.php

This does not change your homepage setting and the welcome page won't
appear anymore.

Support can be obtained from http://www.downloadhelper.net/support.php

Wally

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:50:01 -0800, Tarkus <>
wrote:

>
>I hate to again say something positive about Real, but their player does
>a nice job playing .flv files. Better than the FLV-specific players
>I've tried. You can even get full screen, if you can stand the
>compression artifacts.

I use GOM Player and the FFDShow FLV codec.

Very nice.

Wally

Hey!!! Great, guys. Thanks very much. Willl check them all out.

Sam

"Sammy bin Snoozin" <> wrote in message news7h8j.10066$3s1.2505@trnddc06...
How do you save YouTube videos to hard drive?

Sammy bin Snoozin

[leandermx]

I use this youtube downloader, it can download several youtube videos in one time. http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/youtube-downloader.html

leandermx

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:30:37 GMT, "Sammy bin Snoozin"
<> wrote:

>Hey!!! Great, guys. Thanks very much. Willl check them all out.
>

http://www.devilducky.com/

ChairmanOfTheBored

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:43:35 -0500, "Kenneth J. Harris"
<> wrote:

>Or dowload these 2 free programs: OrbitFLVdowloader(which captures the
>video as an FLV file, and FreezFLVtoAVI/MPG/WMV (which converts it to
>the file type kou want)
>


I tried Orbit recently. I read their page about downloading flv files,
followed their instructions and nothing happens. No small button
appears near the mouse.

http://www.orbitdownloader.com/Use-a...Downloader.htm


>Ken
>
>Sammy bin Snoozin wrote:
>> How do you save YouTube videos to hard drive?
>>
>>
>>

DaveJohnson12@nomail.

<DaveJohnson12@nomail.> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:43:35 -0500, "Kenneth J. Harris"
> <> wrote:
>
>>Or dowload these 2 free programs: OrbitFLVdowloader(which captures the
>>video as an FLV file, and FreezFLVtoAVI/MPG/WMV (which converts it to
>>the file type kou want)
>>
>
>
> I tried Orbit recently. I read their page about downloading flv files,
> followed their instructions and nothing happens. No small button
> appears near the mouse.
>
> http://www.orbitdownloader.com/Use-a...Downloader.htm
>
>
>>Ken
>>
>>Sammy bin Snoozin wrote:
>>> How do you save YouTube videos to hard drive?
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Movavi Flash Converter... but it's not freeware!!

Buchetamo