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Saving a Copy of a Youtube Video? Possible or no?


Warfish

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So I have a video (linked in the past) of my playing with some folks, and I want to save a copy. But it's not my Youtube Account, and I don't have the original file.

 

What I'd like to do is be able to get the audio portion onto my IPod at some point.

 

I'm open to suggestions, I'm old school and never got music off the computer so when it comes to doing things like this I'm woefully out of date tech wise?

 

Thanks!

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Firefox and this addon. Only thing I have trouble with are "brightcove" hosted videos and Silverlight streams (as they're frequently encrypted and sent over a non-standard protocol). Youtube, Dailymotion, and Metacafe all work. Once you install it, you can click on the icon to bring up a list of sites that work and how well they do.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/?src=ss

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I've been using the DownloadHelper add-on for Firefox for years. It gives you the option of which size vid you want, too - since YouTube does a browser and OS check.

 

I use this, by the way, because I am not always on a connection that allows for smooth playback.

 

Then, to strip out the audio, open the downloaded vid in Audacity and there ya go,

 

Greg

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Try http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

 

It's not only a YouToob downloader, it's a very useful software suite. And it's totally free and legal. You may find one of its other features useful besides your primary goal. I certainly did. Rips YouToob in fair quality as well, which is a problem I came across in a lot of other programs and sites - ripping at sub 128k.

 

Hope this helps, amigo.

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