[DigeratiPrime]

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Sometimes you want to save the videos that you watch on Youtube or Google Video. Perhaps you want to watch them later. Maybe you are hoping to transcode a video for playback on a mobile device. Or maybe you want to edit a clip into a podcast you are making. Problem is, you can only download a subset of the videos from Google and Youtube doesn't even have a download feature.

There are a few different ways to get at the FLV file that the video player application is downloading. Safari users can use the Window->Activities feature to locate and download flv files as they are playing, and Joshua Kinberg put together a couple nice Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox that make downloading pretty simple.

I was looking for an easy solution that works cross-browser, and this is what's working for me: 2 javascript URLs, based on the original code from Joshua's Greasemonkey scripts, that you can add to your bookmarks list.

Google Video Download Bookmark (right-click, copy address and save to bookmarks)
Download Google Video

Youtube Download Bookmark (right-click, copy address and save to bookmarks)
Download Youtube Video

Don't click on those URLs here. Just get them into your browser's bookmarks. The next time you are watching a video on Google Video or Youtube, you can click the appropriate bookmark and a window will pop up that will begin downloading the FLV! The Youtube file will be named "get_video" after it is downloaded. Just rename it and add a ".flv" extension and you should be in good shape.

http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007...be_and_goo.html

no more using external sites or programs!

[Zxian]

Really cool idea, but it doesn't work for me in Opera.

Hopefully someone will make it work.

[DigeratiPrime]

from the comments on that site:

Ook? Video Ook! (firefox extension) - https://addons.mozil...efox/addon/2584

have not tried it yet but sounds good. also had not hear of this one yet:
http://www.savetube.com/

was using "kiss"youtube to get the files and the "universal" bookmarklet but the code for that is a mile long.
http://www.kissyoutube.com/
http://1024k.de/book...okmarklets.html

[ricktendo64]

USDownloader is the one for me, does youtube, rapidshare and allot of other filesharing sites

[DigeratiPrime]

That Ook extension for Firefox works good, just click the button on the status bar and it automatically opens a Save As window with the correct title name and extension, you can also have it just automatically save. A breif look at the source and it does not appear to go through an external site to download.

[HighBass]

Thanks for the info............

My friends use Zillatube. They mentioned it's easier to use. Zillatube easily downloads youtube video with great speed and also changes them to windows videos.

Hope this information will be helpful. By the way, you can also test it at link to zillatube

[tain]

http://vixy.net/ works for me. And it does the transcoding for you.

Previously discussed here and here.

[ringfinger]

I second the Ook extension, works great! Thanks for that!

[tain]

Found some more options today:
http://zamzar.com/
http://vconvert.net/
http://www.flvix.com/

Thanks to Lifehacker!

[Inferi0r]

This would be a nice list. I'm always looking for better. Let's look for the BEST All-In-One.
KeepVid.com
Supported list: (still growing)

Google
Youtube
Break.com
iFilm
Putfile
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Angry Alien
ArtistDirect
Blastro
Blennus
Blip.tv
Bofunk
Bolt
Castpost
Current TV
Dailymotion
DevilDucky
FindVideos
Free Video Blog
Grinvi
grouper
Hiphopdeal
LuluTV
Metacafe
Midis.biz
Music.com
MusicVideoCodes.info
Myspace
MySpace Video Code
Newgrounds
PcPlanets
Pixparty
REVVER
sharkle
StreetFire
That Video Site
The One Network
VideoCodes4U
VideoCodesWorld
VideoCodeZone
vidiLife
VIDNET.com
Vimeo
vSocial
Web62.com
ZippyVideos

[gamehead200]

Ah... I love my Mac. I can just right-click the video and choose to download the .flv file!

[tain]

FYI...I split Inferi0r's excellent post into its own topic and pinned it.

http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=103341