Youtube capturing

[rjenuzel]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it through search. I use to have a plugin through FireFox that I could download a youtube video through Firefox. That plugin doesn't work anymore and I was wondering if there was a different plugin or a different free program that could be used.
Thanks,
rob

[Baldrick]

Are you using latest video downloadhelper?

Some other tools https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-streaming-recording

And I'm moving you to our video streaming section as this is not analog hardware capturing.

[jagabo]

Some videos can't be downloaded from Youtube with Firefox+DownloadHelper. For those you need StreamTransport.

[Gavino]

Some videos can't be downloaded from Youtube with Firefox+DownloadHelper.

What are the technical reasons for that (and the administrative reasons (if any) behind it)?

[jagabo]

They were commercial releases streamed with encrypted RTMP. This show used to be hard to download:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKP30gDiHX8

But Firefox+DownloadHelper now work with it. I don't know if that's because DownloadHelper got better or if Youtube made it easier.

[Gavino]

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, that video is "blocked in my country on copyright grounds", so I can't try out DownloadHelper with it.