Save YouTube / Google Video as AVI / MPEG..

Basq

For all YouTube addicts...

I tend to download a lot from YouTube but was sick of the pain-in-the-ass FLV format.

But i found an application today which is excellent: just add the URL to your YouTube / Google Video / Grinvi (??) page with the video you wish the download and it will download it to your computer and convert it to either an AVI or MPEG and excellent quality too (depending on the quality of the source of the video of course).

Download the application VDownloader here!

For example, i entered in the URL to this and it downloaded the FLV from YouTube it to the folder VDownloader was in. And immediately converted it to a 16MB avi. Screenshot of converted video here!

oblian

nice one man!!!!

Jamey

Looks good! How long does it take to convert a video though...cos it's been converting my first one now for about 10 mins !!!??

irishshogun

Excellent program, thanks for the link, it converted a 10 meg file in a minute or so..

Basq

It converted my 8MB FLV to a 16MB AVI in about half a minute.

Reported on the developer's site in the blog comments it may have problems with some videos though.

monkeyfudge

Finally I can download all those Aine videos and watch them on my phone!

s8n

excellent find

CyberGhost

Very nice find basq, thanks!

Asok

Excellent find!

the_syco

:hugz:
Big thanks. Now I can just download them instead of waiting for my favourites to load:D

wavin

basquille wrote:

For all YouTube addicts...

I tend to download a lot from YouTube but was sick of the pain-in-the-ass FLV format.

But i found an application today which is excellent: just add the URL to your YouTube / Google Video / Grinvi (??) page with the video you wish the download and it will download it to your computer and convert it to either an AVI or MPEG and excellent quality too (depending on the quality of the source of the video of course).

Download the application VDownloader here!

For example, i entered in the URL to this and it downloaded the FLV from YouTube it to the folder VDownloader was in. And immediately converted it to a 16MB avi. Screenshot of converted video here!

sounds good.i downloaded it and tried to download a youtube video but get a n error that says "socket error # 10110"

im at work, would a server stop stuff like this working?

**Timbuk2**

great find basquille

bishopLEN

Hi,
I just spotted this:

When you watch a youtube clip the url will show something like this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LXNXgOx0Mm8

To get the clip, copy the part after the = and then add it to the end of this

http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=

Therefore in this example you would get http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=LXNXgOx0Mm8

Just copy this new URL into the address bar or your download manager and you will get the .FLV file.
If I want to convert/play these flash video files I use VLC player. It is great and you can use setting so as NOT to explode the FLV to a bigger AVI(transcode wizard).

CyberGhost

Does this thing still work for you guys?

Cause it doesn't for me anymore, atleast with YouTube

bishopLEN

CyberGhost wrote:

Does this thing still work for you guys?

Cause it doesn't for me anymore, atleast with YouTube

You tube have changed the way they handle their video. I spent a good few hours working out the new way. No fruits yet.

Gosh

See problems here:mad:

CyberGhost

Damned YouTube

Thanks for info guys.

steveland?

If you're really determined to save it use www.keepvid.com to download the FLV file and then Riva FLV Encoder to convert it to avi/mpg

Guide here: http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t259578.html

Webmonkey

Excellent Man!, just what i've being looking for

LegacyUser

Amazing find...this is exactly what I needed.

steveland?

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

This seems like a good extension for Firefox to do the same jobby... on the YouTube/GoogleVideo/etc site click the box at the bottom of the browser and it'll download it...

Haven't tested it yet but it sounds good

Basq

Yeah.. but it downloads it in that horrible FLV format.

Dampsquid

if you watch a vid on youtube with firefox, it downloads to a cache similar to

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\yvtcd30u.default\Cache

Just browse to that directory when the file is downloaded completely within firefox, find the file last modified, and thats it, change the extension to .flv

the_syco

basquille wrote:

Yeah.. but it downloads it in that horrible FLV format.

No worries: VLC plays them

coolcon

to come back to an old thread - which is best AVI or MPEG and whats the difference? i really should now but anyway :rolleyes: . I might eventually put the file on DVD so which should i use?

cance

sorry to post necro,

but i found this: http://www.zamzar.com

its absolutely brilliant, it uploads the movie, converts it, then emails it to you.

joseph brand

Zamzar looks for e-mail address. You might have to upload a video first.

Vixy.net is the easiest, . . . . . . if it's not too busy. :mad: