downloading youtube videos
I’ve always been the one to discover a trend about two years after the cool kids have moved on. So, obviously enough, I only needed to download and save YouTube videos very recently (this means, yesterday).
Very simple two step procedure.
Go to the Youtube Downloader. Paste in the link to the video. You should get a link back which allows a direct download of the video file. (Ripz0r offers an equivalent service). I also used Youripper which did the job pretty well too. However, Youripper is a standalone application (therefore, only runs on Windows) and I’m not sure if I trust the author’s assurance that there is no spyware or other nasties. Another caveat, all youtube videos marked as “mature content” (for example, the Smack My Bitch Up video) seemed to choke Youripper. I’d probably stick to using the web services in either case. Your mileage may vary.
The video file is in FLV (ie: Flash Video) format. I use good old VLC to watch it. Win! Other FLV players also exist, allegedly but I’m lazy and haven’t explored my options beyond VLC. If you really don’t like FLV, you could use a FLV converter to make the video more generally usable (ie: encode into MPEG).
This is an arms race though… It’s quite possible (even likely) that the video services will make subtle changes to their site and break these tools at some point. But this Works For Me™ at the moment.
On 23-Dec-06 at 9:33 pm,
Tez wrote:
Ah, the belatedness, ’tis beautiful. The Wikipedia link about the Prodigy video is wonky in the now-famous manner, and this has finally driven me to take a closer look at it.
Ahem. On the recurring subject of Your Links What Are Not Worky, this is the offender in your stylesheet:
p, .storycontent, .storycontent ul {
line-height:1.5em;
font-size: 12.25px;
color: #000;
margin:0 0 9px 1px;
padding:0;
}
Specifically, that font-size seems to be the troublemaker. Remove it and the problem goes away. I await the fixiness.
On 23-Dec-06 at 9:54 pm,
drac wrote:
Whoa. Styling! How on earth did you figure that out?
Actually, decimals to that degree for a font size are silly anyway but that’s a genuine Firefox flaw in the implementation of the rule. How cool is that. It might be a legit bug. Your 15 minutes of Bugzilla fame await.
and to think that I was in the finishing stages of a new theme because I couldn’t figure out what was going on. The new swishy “large fonts” theme will probably be installed sometime next weekish anyway but you’ve just negated one major need for it. Thanks
Oh, and fixed. Much respect.
On 24-Dec-06 at 6:24 am,
Tez wrote:
Figuring it out; tried without CSS. Heh heh. And then just tried removing progressively smaller chunks of CSS until it narrowed down to one line. You’re welcome.
I AM FAMOUS NOW.
I like the idea of a large fonts theme. Even after getting my glasses, I habitually ^++ anything I’m actually going to read.
On 24-Dec-06 at 11:03 am,
venus wrote:
Hmm..Didnt know you could download till right now.Well never was a cool kid so I shoudnt be suprised..
Merry xmas..hope the weather is good up there!
On 27-Dec-06 at 4:53 pm,
drac wrote:
Tez: Heh. The new theme is not dissimilar in colour scheme and fontography to your Six theme, actually. And the font sizes are about the same too.
Your CSS detective work sounds painstaking. I am impressed.
Venus: Heh, you me and a few others
I betrayed my lack of coolness because I knew of a couple of other people who needed this information 
And Merry X’Mas belatedly and HNY2Y2.
The weather sucked, I think. I dunno because I didn’t venture outdoors for long after the parties last week.