neuromancer
01-10-06, 03:18 AM
For the uninitiated, YouTube is the Flickr of online video sharing. If you haven’t had a chance to check the service, do so right now. As requested, the following tutorial will assist in download FLV video files from the YouTube video sharing service. The following tutorial assumes that you currently have the Firefox browser, Greasemonkey extension, and VLC media player installed.
* In order to keep the process as simple as possible, we’re going to let the Greasemonkey extension do the dirty work. If you have not yet installed the Greasemonkey extension, do so now Firefox 1.5 users must download 0.6.4. You’ll need to install the following Greasemonkey userscript in order to continue: YouTube To Me. You will also find a handy userscript for download videos directly from Google Video.
* Navigate to YouTube.com and locate a video. For this particular tutorial, I am going to download “the Story about Suzuki and the dog“.
* Once the page has loaded, you should see a red bar towards the top of the page spanning the full width of the browser. In the center of this bar are the words ‘”Save as” to download Flash video’. Right-click on the link and select “Save as…” from the contextual menu.
* In the save file prompt, you will notice that the file is titled get_video.php. Title the video accordingly and change the extension from PHP to FLV [essential that step]. Select ‘Save’ and the Flash video file will be downloaded to your desktop.
* While dedicated FLV video players are available, the VLC media player is capable of FLV playback.
The Google Video Getter script provides a similar ‘Save as’ dialogue for downloading Flash videos directly off of Google Video(s).
http://www.uneasysilence.com/wp-content/youtube.gif
Greasemonkey here:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
Google Video Script:
http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/files/google_video_getter.user.js
YouTube Video Script:
http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/files/youtube_to_me.user.js
After installing Greasemonkey, relaunch Firefox, then right-click the links above and select "Install User Script." Now whenever you browse to a Google Video or YouTube webpage, you will see a prominent download link at the top.
VLC Media Player:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
* In order to keep the process as simple as possible, we’re going to let the Greasemonkey extension do the dirty work. If you have not yet installed the Greasemonkey extension, do so now Firefox 1.5 users must download 0.6.4. You’ll need to install the following Greasemonkey userscript in order to continue: YouTube To Me. You will also find a handy userscript for download videos directly from Google Video.
* Navigate to YouTube.com and locate a video. For this particular tutorial, I am going to download “the Story about Suzuki and the dog“.
* Once the page has loaded, you should see a red bar towards the top of the page spanning the full width of the browser. In the center of this bar are the words ‘”Save as” to download Flash video’. Right-click on the link and select “Save as…” from the contextual menu.
* In the save file prompt, you will notice that the file is titled get_video.php. Title the video accordingly and change the extension from PHP to FLV [essential that step]. Select ‘Save’ and the Flash video file will be downloaded to your desktop.
* While dedicated FLV video players are available, the VLC media player is capable of FLV playback.
The Google Video Getter script provides a similar ‘Save as’ dialogue for downloading Flash videos directly off of Google Video(s).
http://www.uneasysilence.com/wp-content/youtube.gif
Greasemonkey here:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
Google Video Script:
http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/files/google_video_getter.user.js
YouTube Video Script:
http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/files/youtube_to_me.user.js
After installing Greasemonkey, relaunch Firefox, then right-click the links above and select "Install User Script." Now whenever you browse to a Google Video or YouTube webpage, you will see a prominent download link at the top.
VLC Media Player:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/