Re: Reflections of May 2008
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Originally Posted by jj
Sheryl, I dont know how to download from youtube succesfully
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Oh dear James for one who is so adept with video stuff in general , that is a terrible admission of failure that you have repeatedly said recently
Pity about the lack of a right click on a MAC a serious deficiency
But seriously had you merely googled for:-
"download youtube videos"
amongst the 164 million results are a few very simple procedures and a gazillion free programs to download and install
but echew all of those because the simplest is to take any youtube URL for example your very own
just add "pwn in front of the youtube.com thus
http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=guJpmxswVvY
and if you paste that address into your browser's address box a download link page on deturl.com will usually open like magic l
with the download link all ready to be used
Anybody using a proper computer with the proper browser (Internet Exploder) can then very simply press the right button on their (Apple invented) mouse and select from the proferred right click menu
"Save Taget As"
even Char should have no problem understanding that simple mini-tutorial
Dammit it just failed to function for me (the site must be down)
So here are two backup solutions
if you have any trouble with that method there are two even simpler systems provided on other websites- http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/
paste in the address wait patiently until you see a large arrow and a largish download button
or go to
- http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php
and again paste in the address
you will get one or two small text lines saying in the case of Jim's video
Download (14.96 MB) Medium Quality (MP4 Format)
Download (7.48 MB) Standard Quality (FLV Format)
the word download will be in red and is a clickable link that itself will initiate the download
No need even for that right click action
Yet another method is to realise that with any video that has completely played then asks if you wish to replay and it will immediately play at the full speed. this is especially useful as silverheels once pointed out if you are on a slow dialup connection and utilises the fact that during the original run through the video file has been saved in its entirety in your browser related Temporary Internet Files folder. The trick is to find that folder and a large file in it that is the full flash video file that you can simply copy somewhere else but as with downloaded flv videos from the two site methods above will require a suitable renaming opertation else the next video you download could overwrite the first one!
A number of helpful punters have created and uploaded tutorial videos
such as this needlessly raucous one:-
I am sure there are better ones amnongst the list on the right of "related videos"
Sorry Cathy but IMHO any of the above is preferable to getting needlessly entangled with Real Player
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Last edited by johnfowles; 11-15-2009 at 01:52 AM.
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