YouTube video ripper?

[Property]

I've just found a wealth of material over at YouTube that takes me back to my younger years. I need to rip the videos down to my PC. What are you using that does this?

Ta!

[keda]

Sorry can't help, I have 3 different progs but none of these does more than go through the motions.

[benbaaa]

DownloadHelper 2.6 (Firefox extension) seems to work some of the time.

[Wallalai]

If you use Firefox there is numerous complementary modules to rip videos from websites. They will be in .flv format, then you'll need to encode them in a more common format. On GNU/Linux I use mencoder in command line to get mpg or avi's, Divx.

Look on this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefo...e/type:1/cat:5

I've used this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/3006 who worked.

Sorry for the links in french. You can change this on the bottom of the page.

[Property]

Ah, I'll have to check around & find something.

[TizMe]

I use freedownloadmanager. It can also convert your YouTube file to other media formats.

It will also has BitTorrent support.

Free Download Manager - absolutely free download accelerator and manager

[Tao]

Safari on the mac allows you to download the movies from the Activity window. Never tried safari on a pc though, so maybe that feature is not there.

[Razor]

I've just found a wealth of material over at YouTube that takes me back to my younger years. I need to rip the videos down to my PC. What are you using that does this?

Ta!

Try pasting YouTube links into these:

http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/ - Can be "off-line" sometimes when it gets busy

KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion!

vconvert.net

[vespergal]

Keepvid.com rocks, then use FLV player or convert the youtube vid with

ImTOO YouTube Video Converter: Download and convert YouTube videos, YouTube Converter

free download, 14 day trial.

[Property]

^ Frack the 14 day free trial, where is the crack for it?

[vespergal]

Google it I guess, but don't use this program to download the youtube vid, cuz it's fooked & just hangs. Only use it to convert to avi format etc.

[Wallalai]

oups.

I think free-flv-converter does it for free.

Télécharger Free FLV Converter

Another link in french but you should be able to find it in english.

[keda]

Mrs k installed RealPlayer on my machine despite strict instructions not to download or install anything if hers is busy and she's using mine...and then found out by accident that RealPlayer downloads from Youtube no problem at all, in fact there's even an option to pop up a 'Would you like to download this?' button whenever YouTube clips are playing...couldn't be easier.

[vespergal]

Only one problem, realyplayer is a piece of site. as far as I know it's a resource hog & full of spyware, the free version anyhow.

[keda]

Absolutely, but it does a better job with YouTube than anything else I've tried, so I let it out only for that function and then it's back in the cage.

[Mid]

Giveaway of the Day - FLV Video Downloader

Active Giveaway time left: 22 hours 51 minutes

[gurney]

nothing wrong with real player...had it on here since day one. spyware? never. needed to listen to BBC inet radio. world service. all the home stations including local radio. wanna listen to radio middlesborough? heh...no comments pls. the latest versions, don't worry about using a beta, enables youtube etc downloading no probs.
just ensure to take yer time when installing re: which kinds of files you want it to be default for. I have GOM player for movies. winamp for music and ripping it. set up right there's no conflicts with those. try it....heh..set a system restore point first jussincase. besta luck

[BigRed]

Along similar lines, we use a subscriber site called Thai.tv TV Online :´Ù·ÕÇÕ ´Ù·ÕÇÕÍ͹äÅ¹ì ·ÕÇÕÍ͹äŹì â·Ã·ÑȹìÍ͹äÅ¹ì ´Ùâ·Ã·ÑȹìÍ͹äÅ¹ì ´Ù¢èÒÇ·ÕÇÕ ´ÙÅФ÷ÕÇÕ Ê¶Ò¹Õâ·Ã·ÑȹìÍ͹äŹì ʶҹÕâ·Ã·ÑÈ¹ì ´Ù˹ѧ ÃÒ¡Ò÷ÕÇÕ ÃÒ¡ÒÃâ·Ã·Ñȹì â·Ã·Ñȹì Í͹äÅ¹ì ´Ù·ÕÇÕ¼èÒ¹à¹ç· which streams Thai soaps but keeps pausing because it doesn't have enough bandwidth. I know if we pause it there will be enough buffered to keep it going a long time, but is there a way to copy it? I can't work out where it streams it from.

[BigRed]

where the hell did that link come from ^

I typed in www thaitv tv (with dots between instead of spaces)

[Wayne Kerr]

Guess you could also look through these threads:

https://teakdoor.com/computer-news/20...downloads.html
https://teakdoor.com/software-forum/8...le-videos.html
https://teakdoor.com/software-forum/8...le-videos.html

[BigRed]

Thanks for the reply, still struggling though.

[voracious]

I was just surfing and ran aross this tha might help. From makeuseof.com
18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet | MakeUseOf.com

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It seems like everyone these days is downloading, watching, and sharing videos from video-sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Veoh, Break, and a ton of other similar sites. Whether you want to watch the video on your iPod while working out, insert it into a PowerPoint presentation to add some spice, or simply download a video before it’s removed, it’s quite essential to know how to download, convert, and play these videos.
There are basically two ways to download videos off the Internet and that’s how I’ll split up this post: either via a web app or via a desktop application. Personally, I like the web applications better simply because you don’t have to clutter up and slow down your computer with all kinds of software!
Free Web services for downloading videos from video-sharing sites

ClipNabber allows you to download videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc by simply copying and pasting the URL. You’ll then get a link whereby you can download the file to your computer, iPod, iPhone, or any other media player. You’ll need to have an FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use! Zamzar is a free online file conversion web application that can not only convert videos off the Internet to AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MP4, MOV, etc, but also converts between audio, image, and document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your favorite format. VideoDownloader is a FireFox extension, but also allows you to paste in any URL from many sites such as Blip.TV, iFilm, and even social networking sites like MySpace. You can also download a free FLV player from their site to play the videos. Vixy.net is another site that not only downloads online videos, but will also convert them AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don’t have to worry about downloading a FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format. (Same as Zamzar) KeepVid also supports just about any video sharing site out there and the only difference about this site is that it also has a Top Videos section, so you can quickly download the most watched videos around the web. Media Converter is similar to ZamZar and vixy.net, but requires you to create an account and log in. Also, it seems like it only supports downloading and converting videos from YouTube. You can also download their video download program, but it only supports 5 sites. Hey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats including HD very quickly. The graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an FTP server or to online storage. YoutubeX, as the name suggests, allows you to download videos from YouTube. Obviously, it only supports YouTube, but it has a couple of other features, such as the ability to play your video on the site and find popular videos quickly. VideoRonk searches across multiple video-sharing sites such as Google Video, YouTube, MetaCafe and DailyMotion to find the most popular videos on each of them. You can either watch them on VideoRonk or download them to your computer in FLV format. VidDownloader supports about 10 sites including the major ones and can download the videos in DivX AVI format. It’s very easy to use and can also extract only the audio from a video by choosing “Just Audio” on the download page. You don’t have to worry about having an FLV player since it converts the files to Windows format. According to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc. You’ll have to rename the files you download from YouTube with the .FLV extension at the end. This site is a foreign site, but is easy to use and supports most of the major sites. You can also download a free FLV player off their site to play videos from YouTube. DownThisVideo has a nice tag cloud at the top that you can click on to find videos quickly. From what I could tell, this site is mostly used by Japanese because the popular videos are mostly Anime, etc. However, you can still use it to download any YouTube video.
Video Downloaders for your DeSktop
If you prefer to have a desktop application that can download videos for you, check out the following list:
1. Orbit Downloader - This is by far the best desktop application I have seen for downloading any type of social media off the Internet. It can download videos and music from MySpace, YouTube, Pandora, Rapidshare, and lots more. It has a great interface and carries a very small foot print.
2. VDownloader - A small little application that can download videos from many sites and converts them to AVI or MPG format.
3. VideoDownloader - A useful FireFox add-on that supports more than 60 video sharing sites. It can also download other objects on a web page, such as movies, MP3s, flash files, and Quicktime movies directly.
4. Ares Tube - Another popular video download application that is very small and very easy to use. You can download videos in batches by entering URLs into a queue and Ares Tube can convert them into different formats such as iPod, MP4, MPG, etc.
4. YouTubeGrabber - Not a very fancy program, it simply takes your URL and downloads the file. No conversion is done and you’ll need to install an FLV player to watch the videos.
5. KeepV - Downloads videos from YouTube, MySpace, and Google and converts them to either MOV, 3GP, AVI, iPod, or PSP format.
Hopefully, using one of the tools above, you can download the video you want! I’m sure the arsenal of web services and desktop apps will grow, so this list will be updated as needed.
Aseem Kishore is an IT Systems Analyst and technology blogger. Check out his blog at Online-Tech-Tips.

[Marmite the Dog]

I use the Download Helper plugin for Firefox which works a treat.

[benbaaa]

RealPlayer works for me. Ditched all the Firefox plugins.