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Title: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: MPTech on February 14, 2008, 02:40:06 am

I tried a program called "YouTube Downloader" but it doesn't seem to work.
When I put the link in and hit start, I get this message (and an empty file)
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong

OR better yet, does anyone have a better program for downloading YouTube videos?

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: shardian on February 14, 2008, 08:54:26 am

I've never got any firefox add-ons to work either.

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: saint on February 14, 2008, 09:05:52 am

http://www.zamzar.com/

Works every time so far.

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: Hurray Banana on February 14, 2008, 10:40:54 am

These work as well

http://www.mediaconverter.org/

http://vixy.net/

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: shardian on February 14, 2008, 10:42:06 am

Quote from: saint on February 14, 2008, 09:05:52 am

http://www.zamzar.com/

Works every time so far.

Worked well, and converted straight to 3gp for my cell phone. Very cool.

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: mccoy178 on February 14, 2008, 10:58:16 am

For macs, I use SnapzPro.  It captures, any one of the three following things:  video, audio, and external mic.  I use it at school to make tutorials for the students.

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: MPTech on February 15, 2008, 01:06:03 am

Saint, I tried zamzar and it worked just fine, THANKS!

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: Level42 on February 15, 2008, 02:16:53 am

Quote from: mccoy178 on February 14, 2008, 10:58:16 am

For macs, I use SnapzPro.  It captures, any one of the three following things:  video, audio, and external mic.  I use it at school to make tutorials for the students.

I use TubeTV. Works great and easy !
http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/tubetv/


O, and it's free.... :D

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: danny_galaga on February 15, 2008, 06:41:42 am

keepvid is easy to use. but ive had no success converting to any other format...

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: patrickl on February 16, 2008, 08:43:08 am

I use flvplayer. I copy the files from the temporary internet files folder (open it from "view files" from the internet options)

Title: Re: Youtube video downloading?
Post by: MaximRecoil on February 21, 2008, 07:49:34 am

Quote from: danny_galaga on February 15, 2008, 06:41:42 am

keepvid is easy to use. but ive had no success converting to any other format...

Use a program called FLVextract to demux the file into a video stream (which will be put in an AVI container but still have the same compression as when it was in the FLV container) and the MP3 audio. Make sure you have AVIsynth installed and then reference the AVI in an AVS script using the DirectShowSource command. For example:

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DirectShowSource("C:\movie.avi")
You can then open the AVI video file in a video editing program that supports AVS scripts (such as VirtualDub) via the AVS script (which acts as a frame server). From there you can encode the video to whatever format you want and/or whatever format the video encoder you are using supports, and you can also mux in the MP3 audio stream.