Grabing Youtube and others onlinevids on your hardisk

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legrec

Posts: 248
Joined: Jan. 26 2006
From: France

Grabing Youtube and others onlinevid...

Hi-

I'm not sure this topic had already been covered in one thread, sorry if it's the case :

I've found a website where you can simply put the url (page adress) or a streaming link of a video and the wesite gives you in the end a converted file (.mpg, .mov, etc), ready for download of the vid (it works with music too). It's a little bit "outlaw" thingy I suppose, but it works great to make a collection of vids on your hardisk when the "save as" option had been removed by webmasters.

The website is here :

http://vixy.net/flv_converter

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 13:17:03

DavidT

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Joined: Mar. 17 2005
From: Seattle, Washington, USA

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to legrec)

legrec,

I gave it a try and Windows does not know how to handle the avi file.
How did you do it?

Thanks
Dave

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 15:12:26

steve

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Joined: May 6 2004

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to legrec)

Legrec

I'm having the same problem. I appear's to have down loaded the vid. but I get a codecs error when I try to run it. Suggestions anyone?

thanks

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 15:18:06

Arash

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Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to steve)

Steve and Rasgueo,

i assume that both of you don't have the DIVX / XVID Codec installed in your computer. So windows is unable to play the AVI file with Mediaplayer.
You must have these Codecs installed in your PC.

Another Solution (and better solution IMO): This is what i use.

Download VIDEOLAN. It is the best player and it plays every video and audio file that i know. I Use VIDEOLAN instead of Mediaplayer for most Video files that i have.

http://www.videolan.org/

Saludos, Arash

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 15:25:41

legrec

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Joined: Jan. 26 2006
From: France

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to Arash)

Can't say anything better than that Arash did...

Videoland (VLC) is the best player around (and I don't say that because the original developpers are french

), concerning compatibility with all the diff. videos formats.

(Beware, it won't play WMV (windows media player) files because I think developpers of Micro$oft forbid WMV support).

I'm using VLC, and that's why I think I didn't encounter the problems you've got... If you don't want to use VLC, perhaps you could try converting the vid in another format ?

And BTW I'm on mac, so perhaps there is another problem ? Arash, did you manage to read an avi file from this site on windows ?

Hasta luego-

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 16:01:59

Arash

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From: Iran (living in Germany)

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to legrec)

quote:

And BTW I'm on mac, so perhaps there is another problem ? Arash, did you manage to read an avi file from this site on windows ?

Yes, i have Windows XP and had no problems.
As already mentioned, the reason is 99% the missing codecs.

Arash

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 16:24:18

DavidT

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Joined: Mar. 17 2005
From: Seattle, Washington, USA

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to legrec)

legrec and Bikhiyal,

Works great now.

Thanks alot for sharing the info.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 19:16:08

duende

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From: Sweden

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to legrec)

works great for me

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 19:16:39

legrec

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Joined: Jan. 26 2006
From: France

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to DavidT)

Hope it will be useful for most...
Thanks for your help Arash.

Vincent/Legrec

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2007 20:13:56

JBASHORUN

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RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to Arash)

quote:

i assume that both of you don't have the DIVX / XVID Codec installed in your computer. So windows is unable to play the AVI file with Mediaplayer.
You must have these Codecs installed in your PC.

Arash, please can you tell me where I can download these codecs?

Thanks,

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 17 2007 10:16:32

legrec

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From: France

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to JBASHORUN)

Here it is :

http://www.cnetfrance.fr/telecharger/windows/fiche/0,39035651,11010875s,00.htm

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 17 2007 11:15:25

Arash

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From: Iran (living in Germany)

RE: Grabing Youtube and others onlin... (in reply to legrec)

Seams that the online Converter site which legrec mentioned, is down.

I also tried other online converters but they don't work properly and even if they work, then it is a time eating process.

So here is another solution (without converting):

1) First download VLC Media Player as mentioned in above posts and install it on your PC.

2) Then go to this site: www.videodl.org

3) Copy and paste the Youtube URL of the video which you want to have, in to this site.

4) Click "GET IT".

5) Click the green "DOWNLOAD LINK" button and download the file to your PC.

6) After the file is downloaded and saved on your PC, rename it and also add following extension to the file: .flv
(Example: the downloaded file is GET_VIDEO. Rename it to TOMATITO.flv)

7) Right Click on the file and "OPEN WITH" VLC Mediaplayer and thats it. You can watch the Video now and it is saved on your pc.

So as you can see, you don't need to convert the Video to AVI Format if you have VLC Mediaplayer because this player is also able to play flv files (youtube videos are all in this flv format)

Arash

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 19 2007 18:07:40