Tech: downloading/saving a video

Subject: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: frogprince
Date: 16 May 06 - 10:25 AM

My wife is in a great big choir; currently she is learning some choreography that some of the group will do on the next tour. There is a practice video on YouTube. It takes forever to download each time on dialup, and so far I haven't been able to save anything to our computer except a still of the YouTube page. If I left-click on the video screen itself, "save" doesn't show as an option. Can anybody tell me if these things are simply inacessable for saving to my computer, or how to go about it if it's possible? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 May 06 - 12:38 PM

You may have to workaround the way the video is set up if they have blocked it to using the save feature. I haven't tried it, but once a file is downloaded to watch it is in your temporary cache. If you go poke around in the cache (tell us what operating system you're using and someone can tell you how to get there) you might be able to click on it and save it as a renamed file (moving it to a new location at the same time).

If your computer is so slow that you can't download it easily, then find a computer with a burner or some other way to save the large file. Download it as if to watch it, then save the file from the cache onto your disk or CD or what ever you're saving it to.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: frogprince
Date: 16 May 06 - 12:45 PM

Thanks, SRS; I'm running Windows ME. It's not a long video, and I can download it again rather than going somewhere else to use a computer. If I can locate the temp file, this sounds good.

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: Dave Ruch
Date: 16 May 06 - 12:51 PM

A friend just told me about some software he has been using in order to save video clips from YouTube. The website is here: http://keepvid.com/

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: Grab
Date: 16 May 06 - 01:26 PM

I suggest going to Google and searching "download youtube"...

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: frogprince
Date: 16 May 06 - 02:03 PM

I should have it in a temp file now; I switched off "delete temporary internet files when exiting" for the moment. But I haven't been able to track down the location of the file yet. Looked in windows temp, windows temp internet, juno temp, and yahoo temp; doesn't seem to be there.

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: Bill D
Date: 16 May 06 - 02:07 PM

I see...all the videos seem to be in Flash, a notoriously tricky one to save. Let me see if I can locate some info...

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: Bill D
Date: 16 May 06 - 02:08 PM

take a look here

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: frogprince
Date: 16 May 06 - 03:54 PM

I 'preciate the thoughts, guys, but this is getting frustifying; It appears the video saved to my documents ok via keepvid, but none of my players will recognize it. I tried downloading a flashplayer from keepvid; when I tried to run it, I got a warning that it was either incomplete, corrupted, or contained a virus. The other flashplayers I came up with cost major bucks. One forum recommended one available from a "U" somewhere, but I can't get the link they give...Dang....

Subject: RE: Tech: downloading/saving a video
From: Bill D
Date: 16 May 06 - 04:41 PM

do you see the video file in a list, with extension and # of bytes listed? Is the extension correct?

if it is a simple Flash file, the free version of Zoom Player will supposedly play it.

"Zoom Player is capable of playing all common media formats and quite a few of the not so common, including:
AVI, Matroska (MKV), QuickTime (MOV), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Flash (SWF), RealMedia (RA/RM/RMVB/RAM), Windows Media Format (ASF/WMV/WMA including DRM with WMV Professional version), OGG Movie (OGM), MPEG-1 (MPG/VCD), MPEG-2 (MPG/SVCD/VOB), MPEG-4 (DIVX/XVID/ISO), VP3-VP6, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3), Vorbis Audio (OGG), Dolby Digital (AC3), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), MusePack Audio (MPC), FLAC Audio (FLAC), OptimFROG Audio, Monkey Audio (APE), True Audio (TTU), Wave Audio (WAV)"