Downloading a video from You Tube

Tim Deegan · 05-10-2011, 19:48

A friend of mine was trying to download a video from youtube to use in a road safety lecture. The video clip is one that has been released to give an anti drink drive message, and isn't covered by any copyright. The trouble is we can't work out how to do it.

Any ideas anyone (in simple terms)?

**Kymmy** · 05-10-2011, 19:52

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Try Realplayer as it has a plugin for ie and FF to allow downloading directly to disk from youtube and many other sites. It will not work though on DRM videos

Tim Deegan · 05-10-2011, 19:55

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Try Realplayer as it has a plugin for ie and FF to allow downloading directly to disk from youtube and many other sites. It will not work though on DRM videos

Thanks for that Kymmy, I'll give it a try.

**Kymmy** · 05-10-2011, 19:57

There's also many more found easily by googling "youtube download" most of which have been mentioned on CF before when the questions popped up in the past.

Hom3r · 05-10-2011, 20:09

I use Vdownloader open the program and open youtube.

You just copy thr URL for the youtube video and it does the work for you.

Tim Deegan · 05-10-2011, 21:26

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Originally Posted by Hom3r

I use Vdownloader open the program and open youtube.

You just copy thr URL for the youtube video and it does the work for you.

Cheers for that. I just tried it and it worked.

bw41101 · 05-10-2011, 22:02

If you're a Firefox user there's an extension called Download Helper which is the dog's oojah quapivlios for downloading video from sites like You Tube and other similar.

Best of all it's free and well supported with regular updates.

Giy it a go lad!

Si thee

Acathla · 05-10-2011, 22:11

I use a Greasemonkey script called YouTube HD Suite: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/39167

Does a number of things but one feature is to add download links direct into Youtube pages.

XxAmazingStarxX · 05-10-2011, 22:13

Dl realplayer

Halcyon · 05-10-2011, 22:36

savevid.com has always worked for me.

heero_yuy · 06-10-2011, 09:27

You can always go and get it from the cache: Clear the cache, play the video, it will be the biggest file in the cache, copy it to a new name and pop an .flv (if it's another format just use the appropriate extension) after it.

Seems to work for most streaming sites except BBC i-Player, which never properly caches the entire video.

Tim Deegan · 06-10-2011, 10:08

Thanks to you all for your help. The first one I tried was Vloader, and that worked well, so that's the one I told my mate about.

budwieser · 06-10-2011, 22:14

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

You can always go and get it from the cache: Clear the cache, play the video, it will be the biggest file in the cache, copy it to a new name and pop an .flv (if it's another format just use the appropriate extension) after it.

Seems to work for most streaming sites except BBC i-Player, which never properly caches the entire video.

Does that work for 4OD videos mate?

heero_yuy · 07-10-2011, 10:05

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Originally Posted by budwieser

Does that work for 4OD videos mate?

I think broadcast stuff tends to do what the BBC i-player does in that the whole stream is NOT buffered, only the segment that you're watching. That's not to say that there's some crafty geek out there that's worked out how to save the buffered segments on the fly, after all the data has to be buffered on the PC somewhere in order to decode and play it.

budwieser · 07-10-2011, 20:17

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

I think broadcast stuff tends to do what the BBC i-player does in that the whole stream is NOT buffered, only the segment that you're watching. That's not to say that there's some crafty geek out there that's worked out how to save the buffered segments on the fly, after all the data has to be buffered on the PC somewhere in order to decode and play it.

Ok, Thanks for that. Just looking to download a Time Team Episode.Series 06 Episode 08 Reedham Marshes.