Very Curious of the types of files on You Tub e

[rotuts]

Cheers

this is Not About Wa Rez!!

continuing my studies of video files ive come across You Tub e

how can one find out about the file types? how they are encoded? Loaded etc?

it even seems that some know how to download them, but not me!

again this is not about the dreaded War Rez

this is curiosity at its , curious self

cheers

and TIA

[willrob]

They play as Flash format, but I don't know how they get uploaded or where the conversion takes place. Unlike other Flash media (which can be downloaded with a Firefox plug-in) the YouTube files are 9at least for me) immune to saving. A video screen capture app would work (like SnapPro on the Mac), but perhaps there is another method.

[jman98]

If you haven't already installed firefox, go to
http://www.getfirefox.com
and install Firefox. Then go to
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
and install the VideoDownloader add-on. No guarantees it will work on every file, but the few times I tried it with YouTube it did download the files I was watching. One of my friends tried it and said it failed for him, but he's not very strong technically, so I can't rule out that he didn't use it correctly.

[rotuts]

thanks Im extreeemly keen on this download freature

I clicked on the firefox link and then the pug in page came in but said that "software installation is currently disabled. click edit options to enable it and try again.''I did this and nothing happend. I looked in my 'main' prefs and it enables updates.

any further ideas? Id love to get this

thanks

[OmegaSupreme]

PodTube http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30564 allows you to download a YouTube video, convert it to MPEG4, and save it to iTunes or an iPod, with 1 click.

[guns1inger]

So far, greasemonkey has worked for youtube without any issues. The greasemonkey page will point you to the scripts you need.

A simpler solution is the Unplug plugin, which you call from the tools menu as needed. It finds all video related links on the page, and ranks them in the most likely order. Works across a range of pages.

[RipTasticMate]

I like TubeSock myself http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/index.html

[albloom]

A couple web links will (sometimes) capture the vids:

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

http://keepvid.com/

You'll need FLV Viewer to play them

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28763

or iSquint to convert them to something useful:

http://isquint.org/