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Peter Rock
This does not load in my browser. I just get a black box. What kind of file is this?
Alec
I think YouTube converts vid to some sort of Flash format … I think they do that in fear of being sued for hosting copyrighted content. There are ways of getting around it though as to be able to download the raw videos.
I think there’s another FireFox extension as well. Let me know if that helps at all.
Peter Rock
Thanks for the link. However, on that link it says –
“As of 4/28/06, youtube has made a few chagnes that prevent the Greasekmonkey solution below from working. But keepvid.com updated their joint to work with the new youtube pages, so for the moment you can download through there..”
So I go there (keepvid.com) and it appears to be a site that requires me to input the site I want to download from. So I assume I need the URL of the video…?
I was able to download the file (dMH0bHeiRNg.flv) but can’t play it. VLC won’t open it nor will any other free program I’ve tried including swfplayer and gnash. There doesn’t seem to exist any free .flv converter either.
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Comments are preserved from the original blog and are now closed. Commenter links have been removed, as many old domains have changed hands.
This does not load in my browser. I just get a black box. What kind of file is this?
I think YouTube converts vid to some sort of Flash format … I think they do that in fear of being sued for hosting copyrighted content. There are ways of getting around it though as to be able to download the raw videos.
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/best_of_youtube/2006/02/how_to_download_and_save_youtu.html
I think there’s another FireFox extension as well. Let me know if that helps at all.
Thanks for the link. However, on that link it says –
“As of 4/28/06, youtube has made a few chagnes that prevent the Greasekmonkey solution below from working. But keepvid.com updated their joint to work with the new youtube pages, so for the moment you can download through there..”
So I go there (keepvid.com) and it appears to be a site that requires me to input the site I want to download from. So I assume I need the URL of the video…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&eurl (the original URL). Thanks for showing me KeepVid. Works nicely!
I was able to download the file (dMH0bHeiRNg.flv) but can’t play it. VLC won’t open it nor will any other free program I’ve tried including swfplayer and gnash. There doesn’t seem to exist any free .flv converter either.