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J4MIE
10th October 2007, 19:37
So far I believe that I have to install firefox to be allowed to do this. So I have, but it's not letting me.

Over to you, Daniel..... :p :

Or anyone else got any ideas? :s

Curryhead
10th October 2007, 20:05
do you mean downloading them to your hardrive? If so, I did'nt know you could do that?

J4MIE
10th October 2007, 20:12
do you mean downloading them to your hardrive?

Yes, for viewing at a later time/offline etc :) Have been told that it is possible!

Dave B
10th October 2007, 20:16
Clear your internet cache, then watch the clip. It'll be stored in your cache (aren't you glad you emptied it first? Makes the clip SO much easier to find :p )

I think YouTube clips are .flv files, in which case download flvplayer (http://applian.com/flvplayer/)

Copy the clip out of your cache to somewhere useful, and drag it into the player.

:)

Dave B
10th October 2007, 20:16
Oh, and get rid of Firefox :p

J4MIE
10th October 2007, 20:20
Thank you sir :up:

Curryhead
10th October 2007, 20:31
Clear your internet cache, then watch the clip. It'll be stored in your cache (aren't you glad you emptied it first? Makes the clip SO much easier to find :p )

I think YouTube clips are .flv files, in which case download flvplayer (http://applian.com/flvplayer/)

Copy the clip out of your cache to somewhere useful, and drag it into the player.

:)

Excellent!! well chuffed now :)

Storm
10th October 2007, 20:50
You cannot directly download them as in right click and copy but Dave has given the perfect work-around for that........and Firefox is good!

tinchote
11th October 2007, 00:07
I think YouTube clips are .flv files, in which case download flvplayer (http://applian.com/flvplayer/)


You are right. And it doesn't depend on the browser. You just need to know where your browser stores its temporary files.

Daniel
11th October 2007, 11:13
So far I believe that I have to install firefox to be allowed to do this. So I have, but it's not letting me.

Over to you, Daniel.....

Or anyone else got any ideas?
You should know I'd never tell anyone how to possibly infringe upon someone's copyright and steal their intellectual property :p *cough*

As for Dave? Well he's got no morals :p

As for Firefox it's just one big memory leak, ad blocking? who cares these days? most ads aren't popups and sites nead them to survive and as for extensions? WTF? It's like being able to go to Halfords and put taco shaped side view mirrors on your car :mark: Sure it's good to be able to, but do you actually need more of these things and do they really make it better than IE?

I don't see how most of these are useful or anything over what IE gives you as standard :mark:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_extensions
Although there is an extension to download youtube videos so perhaps it is of slightly more use than a chocolate teapot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoDownloader

Koz
11th October 2007, 13:50
Such complicated and time wasting methods you use. :p

Get with the times, us this: http://vixy.net/

Best thing about it is, those bloody videos arent in .flv anymore!

harsha
12th October 2007, 15:00
u can download youtube clips

just keep the link in keepvid (.com/.net not sure) website and download that..
save that downloaded file as a .flv file and open it with an flv player or a VLC player...

another thing to do is convert that to a regular avi file later

Zico
12th October 2007, 18:42
I use this.. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/VDownloader.shtml Type in the URL and click download... It works with...

· Youtube
· Google Video
· DailyMotion
· MySpace
· Stage6 DivX
· Porkolt
· Metacafe
· Break.com
· 123 Video
· Bolt
· VSocial
· Lulu TV
· Guba


And a few other adult sites, It even saves them in Avi or Mpeg format.. ;)

SOD
12th October 2007, 19:01
http://www.youtubex.com allows you to download the flv file. you need the yotube URl first.

Dave B
12th October 2007, 20:29
I use this.. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/VDownloader.shtml Type in the URL and click download... It works with...

· Youtube
· Google Video
· DailyMotion
·
I wish I could find something to handle my daily motion... :dozey: :p

Captain VXR
12th October 2007, 21:20
Real player lets me download youtube vids :)