Saving a film clip from youtube?

Real simple in Safari.

Under the "Window Menu" open "Activity".
This will show you everything that Safari is downloading to its cache.
You should see the .flv file, and it should be fairly large. This
should be done while the you tube video is playing.
Double click on that listing and it should begin downloading that file
to your default download location.

As the other post said iSquint will covert the file nicely.
Michael

On Jul 22, 6:03 pm, Old Roadie wrote:
> Using any of Safari, Camino, or Firefox, is there a way to save the
> actual flash file used by youtube?
>
> If there's another browser that will let it be done, I'm listening...
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
 >> Stay informed about: Saving a film clip from youtube? 

Old Roadie wrote:

> Using any of Safari, Camino, or Firefox, is there a way to save the
> actual flash file used by youtube?
>
> If there's another browser that will let it be done, I'm listening...
>
> Thanks,
> Bill

Easiest way is to use the shareware TubeTV ... it saves the video in a
format which is also suitable for putting on an iPod or AppleTV. Well
worth making the suggested voluntary donation IMHO.

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Adrian
 >> Stay informed about: Saving a film clip from youtube? 

In article ,
Old Roadie wrote:

> Using any of Safari, Camino, or Firefox, is there a way to save the
> actual flash file used by youtube?
>
> If there's another browser that will let it be done, I'm listening...
>
> Thanks,
> Bill



There are web sites dedicated to downloading YouTube videos. BTW,
Google owns it so going to video.google.com gets pretty much the same
content. They are linked but not merged as yet.

Google "save youtube video" and you will get a host of sites that will
do it for you.

You result in an FLV file which is FlashPlayer's latest propriatary
format.
You will then need to get an FLV video player (there are freebies on
the net) or find a converter. (If you rip it from Google its a GLV
file - their version of FLV. Google offers a GLV player for Win and
Mac for free)

In my case I have done this on a Windows Box but haven't tried on a
Mac yet. Be prepared however for file size shock because an FLV file
is extremely compressed. When I expanded an FLV file to Windows Media
it went from 8 MB to something like 40 MB. I had problems going
direct from FLV to QT (MPG4).

YMMV with QT direct on a Mac.

Good luck.

DMK
 >> Stay informed about: Saving a film clip from youtube? 

D. Kirkpatrick wrote:

> In article ,
> Old Roadie wrote:
>
> > Using any of Safari, Camino, or Firefox, is there a way to save the
> > actual flash file used by youtube?
> >
> > If there's another browser that will let it be done, I'm listening...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
>
>
>
> There are web sites dedicated to downloading YouTube videos. BTW,
> Google owns it so going to video.google.com gets pretty much the same
> content. They are linked but not merged as yet.
>
> Google "save youtube video" and you will get a host of sites that will
> do it for you.
>
> You result in an FLV file which is FlashPlayer's latest propriatary
> format.
> You will then need to get an FLV video player (there are freebies on
> the net) or find a converter. (If you rip it from Google its a GLV
> file - their version of FLV. Google offers a GLV player for Win and
> Mac for free)
>
> In my case I have done this on a Windows Box but haven't tried on a
> Mac yet. Be prepared however for file size shock because an FLV file
> is extremely compressed. When I expanded an FLV file to Windows Media
> it went from 8 MB to something like 40 MB. I had problems going
> direct from FLV to QT (MPG4).
>
> YMMV with QT direct on a Mac.
>
> Good luck.
>
> DMK

The answer to the above issues is TubeTV .... it works ...

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Adrian
 >> Stay informed about: Saving a film clip from youtube? 

Great responses!

Thank you all, very much...

Bill
 >> Stay informed about: Saving a film clip from youtube? 

It turns out, the easiest thing to do is to save the file from Safari's
activity window, then cmd-i to change the default app to VLC! Plays
perfectly!
 >> Stay informed about: Saving a film clip from youtube?