getting round 'youtube'

A:I

it will block the video anyway. everything from youtube.com is banned.
I would have a quiet word with the head of ICT and ask if you can use a proxy site (google proxy sites) to go on this video on youtube.

at my school the network goes through counsil servers and thats what blocks them.

gcn504

There is another option presuming you have a pc at home.

Take a copy (into your clipboard) of the URL of the Goldilocks video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4DwiYO82o

Go to the following webpage:

http://vixy.net/flv_converter

Paste your Youtube link into the space shown and this website will convert the FLV file to AVI (your school pcs would have a basic windows media player I presume).

It will take a little while but it comes back with another URL which you click on at which point it gives you the opportunity to save the file to your C drive (its about 14Mb) and onto a usb pen drive if you have one which you can take a long to the school and transfer to the pc there.

I have gone through the procedure myself and run Anti-Virus scans on the file produced which was clean.

If your only pc access is at school you could try getting to http://vixy.net/flv_converter and doing the same procedure.

Hope that helps but as you'll see reading through the replies there are many ways to skin this particular cat.

Ivrytwr3

Click on this and download the clip:

http://tc4.vixy.net/flvtc?c=dl&id=892855c39b2f0b0cb9c976b306a8a896

Burn to CD using Nero or something and then play the cd in any pc and you can watch that lovely clip i just wasted six minutes of my life watching

cwoodham

Yes, you need to download the video from YouTube onto your PC first. If you go onto YouTube and type download YouTube videos in the search box, you'll find a number of people have made videos showing how to do it. HTH

gruel

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

I am a bit of a technophobe but will try and work through all the ideas you have suggested with the help of DH.

Will let you know if I have any success!

Gruel

Smickan

I don't mind downloading it for you, then encoding and uploading it as an mpeg or wmv or something....?

PM me if you want any help