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[-=lEasyCompanyl=-theone]

i want to download some guitar lesson videos from youtube, and was wondering if this can be done. and if so how do i do it?

[Why Two Kay]

No. Not legally.

[-=lEasyCompanyl=-theone]

damn, i was under the impression that if u can watch it fully then u can dl it. i wanted to put them on my ipod .
alright, well thnx

[Why Two Kay]

You would get a .FLV anyway, if you downloaded it. Not a AVI or any media the iPod accepts. It would have to be played in a certain program, a flash video player.

And it's not that they don't want you to have the video, but their bandwidth is expensive, and downloading would mean direct linking would be enabled. This means people could put the video on their own page, without using the YouTube player, which advertises for them.

[-=lEasyCompanyl=-theone]

okay

[Noobie1 Canoli]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

The Y2K don't know it all after all!

YES YOU CAN! A Firefox plugin will do it. I got it a few days ago and it works!

Sites supported:
Youtube, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace, Angry Alien, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, EVTV1, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, TotallyCrap, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos... and any other webpage with embedded objects.


Works with:

Firefox 1.5 - 2.0b2 ALL

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[-=lEasyCompanyl=-theone]

sweet! thnx a lot noobie

Edi: when i click the link a new page is opened up, but nothing loads, its just blank

Edited by -=lEasyCompanyl=-theone, 28 September 2006 - 03:23 PM.

[dodgem]

its a dead link for me?????

[-=lEasyCompanyl=-theone]

just google video downloader. its like the first link.

[pest control]

just rightclick on noobies link and go to properties, you will get the link of extension, copy/paste it in new tab in address bar.....

noobie, is there a open source/free software that you can convert this format. this thing is awesome

[Noobie1 Canoli]

Sorry guys. I didn't test it because I don't have Firefox at work but I did tell you to click it FROM Firefox. I think it should detect that it is an extension and ask you if you want to install it or something.

Then when you open a video you click the icon at the bottom right and choose the format to save the video as.

[Why Two Kay]

Gee, stealing bandwidth. How nice of you.

And there is no need to go "OMFG I KNOW SOMETHING RYAN DOESNT!!!111". BIG #@$#$ DEAL. I DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING.

Again, these sites DO NOT really want you to download the videos, thats why the links to FLV's are ENCODED in the source. However there is always some people who don't care about downloading music illegally, stealing bandwidth, or de-copy protecting something.

[BrEEd]

A little feisty are we?

[Fuel §]

[BrEEd]

Ok, but yeah that Firefox plug-in works great. I use it all the time. Good work, Noobie.

[Beautiful_Death]

I wish bandwidth didn't exist. I heard youtube pays 1million dollars of bandwidth per day/week/month (honestly I forgot).

[Noobie1 Canoli]

Gee, stealing bandwidth. How nice of you.

That argument isn't even flawed, it's nonexistent. You have to stream the video regardless if it ends up in your HD or on your browser/player. Come on Ryan, no need to lash out. It was a joke. Read the PM.

If there is a problem with it I'm sure they'll plug the security hole and go after the makers of the plugin. As for the copyright thing, how many copyrighted videos have you seen on YouTube? I can't remember seeing one. All I've seen so far are tidbits of shows or amateur home made stuff.

[Why Two Kay]

By bandwidth, the theory is that if you download it, you have a way to direct link it. They do not want people to stream videos except through their own flash media player. That way, it has the "You Tube" logo on it, and it will give links back to other YouTube videos that take you to a YouTube.com page, which has ads on it in addition to the video.

Google allows downloads of AVI's directly.

[pest control]

what does this have to do with stealing bandwidth, you always download the thing when u see it. stealing bandwidth is instead you hosting the file urself, you just link it to another source. and have them host your file, you on the otherside just present the link to people. youtube and imageshack and googlevideo live from this, they spend millions on bandwidth, but get billions back on commercials.

and why are you saying this is illegal? whenever you play the video, it will be downloaded in your harddisc, this stuff that is free is already in your computer. with this extension you just get control of that file. there is a difference between copyrighted material that is made to be sold and freeware files that are put on purpose to be shared.

[Why Two Kay]

You aren't getting what I am saying.

When you stream/view it you are using a viewer which advertises for YouTube. When you download, watch later, or embed you are breaking YouTube's policy because you are showing the direct video, NOT the YouTube Advertised one with links back to YouTube.

They make NO money. Watch the news.