Posted on 10/11/2006 8:34:48 PM PDT by ChesireKat
How to save youtube videos (and upload them elsewhere)
After David Zucker's political ad was flagged on youtube.com, some of you asked how to download youtube videos to watch elsewhere. These are instructions for doing so. If you know an easier or more direct method, please post.
1) Copy the url from the youtube page. (I searched for freerepublic to find a worthy sample)
2) Go to http://keepvid.com and paste the youtube url in the space provided
3) Save file by clicking download (part A), then clicking "download link" (part B). Save it
as an .flv extension
4) Download cinemaforge (It's free software you can find online) or similar software.
5) With cinemaforge, convert .flv file to something playable for video sharing websites (wmv, mpeg, etc)
6) Click encode. Your new video is now the proper format for video sharing sites.
7) Upload to another website. (zippyvideos, tinypic, mediamax)
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Just tried it. Works great!
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Bump to read when normal brain function resumes. Thank you, sir...
Cool thank you!
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Cool. VERY useful info, thanks!!!
Or you could use the VideoDownloader extension in FireFox... :)
You can see this on hotair.com, a site that doesn't have all the insane restrictions and thinks that YouTube does.
What a dumb comment.
A little clip of a TV show is not copyright infrigement, and saving it to your HD isn't either.
Why is everyone here acting as if YouTube is the only video hosting site in the world? You could put it on Metacafe, Photobucket, Google video (maybe) or even MySpace!
useful
Thank you for the instructions on saving a video from youtube
Dumb? Sorry you think so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Tube#Copyright_infringement
Please don't corner me into actually having to take an RIAA-like stance merely for the sake of this discussion. I thought conservatives were supposed to have respect for the law. Downloading copyrighted content without authorization is against the law, and a 'little clip of a TV show' may very well constitute copyright infringement.
I didn't say that was definitely the case, and I chose my words carefully for a reason. Then there's the issue of whether or not a copyright holder cares enough to wish to prohibit it from being available on such a venue. Quite a few do, and, when they complain, the video is taken down.
Saving it to your HD doesn't make it not akin to illegal file-sharing merely because you say so.
Saving it to your HD doesn't make it not akin to illegal file-sharing merely because you say so.
In the examples you cite, merely viewing the content is copyright infringement. It's not clear that saving it to disk adds to the infringement (unless you then subsequently sell it or share it, of course).
On the other hand, if the online content is legal to view, then saving it on your disk is simply fair use (again, unless you publish the saved content to others without permission).
YouTube is just wrong. I refuse to support the liberals at Google.
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