An obvious answer perhaps??

[DaveB]

Hi Guy's..

A mate has been trying to copy files (a file) to disc using Real Player and it's been spitting out some pony about paying 19 bucks for a premium version. I've told him NOT to fork out the $19 as it's not necessary but could he send me a link to the file he was trying to burn. I've just received a link to 'said' file and it's a vid off YouTube :o I dunno but I presumed files on YouTube were embedded in some way meaning they can be viewed but not copied. Is that a fair assumption of have I lost the plot :think:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[SkippyBing]

The Vids are embedded however it's possible to get software that will download a local copy to your hard drive. If you're using Firefox there's an add-on called download helper that works for most embedded videos. You'll generally have to convert it to a more user friendly format after that as it arrives as an flv file, but it's not hard to find a transcoder to a more widely used format.

Before anyone starts bleating on about copyright, I've seen more Crown Copyright stuff uploaded to you tube than I've been forced to watch through legitimate means. Never mind all the stuff ripped off tv etc.

[Kevin Farnell]

There are several ways in which to copy YouTube videos.
The method I use, is as follows.

1. Watch the YouTube video.

2. Open 'Temporary Internet Files' (C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files).

3. Search for file (This is a bit of trial and error to start with), called either 'Get Video' or given a .FLV name (if FLV player is already installed).

4. Drag to desktop and rename XXXX.FLV.

5 Download FLV player - find it with a Google search.

6 Install FLV player and watch video.

.FLV files can be written to disc as any other file, and can also be viewed using Real PLayer.

Sounds a bit long winded, but it's not in practice.

Hope this helps

Kevin

[TSR2]

Following on from Kevins post, found this website, and it works a treat!

http://www.videodownloadx.com/download

Just paste the url from the youtube video you want, then it does some link thing to it where you can right click on the word "download" and select "save as" easy as pie. That will give you the file in FLV format (you will need to rename the file by putting .flv at the end of the file name. Then I have the Klite Mega Codec pack ( available here: http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm ) installed, so I can play virtually any file type, including flv, realplayer, quicktime etc in media player

[DaveB]

Thanks guy's.. great stuff

I'll email him a link to this thread

ATB

DaveB :tab: