youtube downloading

gigif30

does anyone know if possible how:o to download video files from youtube

phill79

Firefox can do it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

chuckles1066

gigif30 wrote:

does anyone know if possible how:o to download video files from youtube

if you've viewed them on your pc then they'll be in your temporary internet folder............most of YouTube files have FLV extensions but they can be played by VLC Media Player

http://www.videolan.org

Darksun

The VideoDownloader extension works well. You can get a codec to play FLV files in most players (I used Media Player Classic, works fine), and there are tools to convert FLV files into other formats

TheFlyingGerbil

phill79 wrote:

Firefox can do it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

There's a comment on this page that the program collects information on what you are watching. I don't like that sound of that at all. Does anyone know if it's true?

Joe

chuckles1066

TheFlyingGerbil wrote:

There's a comment on this page that the program collects information on what you are watching. I don't like that sound of that at all. Does anyone know if it's true?

Joe

No different to Windows Media Player though :mad:

Darksun

When you use the videodownloader extension, it calculates the download link for the page on a remote server. Therefore it'd technically be possible for them to log which videos you activate the downloader extension on - but as far as I know they don't do this

sra

You don't need to use the extension

Just paste the address in:

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

gigif30

i have downloaded VLC media player but cant find my temp internet files if they are hidden how do i switch them so that i can see them

chuckles1066

gigif30 wrote:

i have downloaded VLC media player but cant find my temp internet files if they are hidden how do i switch them so that i can see them

On XP:

c:\Documents and Settings\**Your User Name Here**\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

From Windows Explorer, select Tools/Folder Options

Select View

Tick the box marked "show hidden files and folders"

Away you go!

gigif30

thanks for all the help one last thing is there any freeware for converting an flv file to avi or similar for putting videos onto disk