Hi all,

am looking for a util to rip videos from Youtube. I've found various sites where you can enter the URL of the vid in and it does it for you but does anyone know if theres any sort of addin for IE or Firefox that allos this to be done directly to the PC ?

Cheers,

Puz

I think you can find the files in the temporary internet files folder and just rename them

you can also use the UnPlug extension for firefox

^^ - You can do it that way, a lot of the time, otherwise you could try out these services:

Vixy
Media Convert

And as for browser plugins that do the job, you could always try VideoDownloader for Firefox:

VideoDownloader Firefox Plugin

Good luck.

Thanks for the advice folks

Will give all those methods ago although i like the sound of that plugin for firefox - cheers



Will post back what works for me.

Easiest way is to put "kiss" - in front of the utube.com address you want to download (eg http://kissyoutube.com/watch?v=MMhl7R9Ng-s).

B8

Thats cool mate - am just trying that now... My plan is to have these vids in Itunes so i guess i'm right in thinking i'll have to convert from .flv to .mov as well ?

Puz

Sweet I've been wanting to get a copy of the Michael Howard Paxman interview for ages I don't know how the hell to use any of the firefox plugins mentioned though hehe one step at a time.

Dunno the kiss thing, but as Scribble says the videodownloader plugin for firefox works on most sites that have video content.

Here's a cool-looking service that transcodes flv movies to avi, mov, mp4 & 3gp for you:

Vixy FLV Online Transcoder

Using videodownload and Unplug all I'm getting is useless .fla files from youtube.

Don't know what you're trying to rip, but .fla files are Flash Animations - you should be getting .flv files, which are Flash Video files. They're not useless - see my post above your last one for a site that will convert them, online and free, to .avi format or whatever else for conventional viewing, or you can just watch the downloaded .flvs in VLC Player, or something like that.

What is is you're trying to rip?



You want to be using VideoDownload *or* UnPlug, not both at once, if that's what you're saying.

Free YouTube downloader to iPod, and converter (well, 3 formats anyway) at:

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

Some other free video tools also.

UK420 - Ripping YouTube Vids to Hard Disc

The Paxman interview with Michael Howard. A friend asked me if I could replace Paxman with the that teenage girl character played by Cathrine Tate (The name be wrong because personally I think she is shit) but I need a hard copy to be able to edit.

Link?



Edit: Never mind - I found it.

Right - I found the video here:

Paxman/Howard Interview

I clicked my 'VideoDownloader' plugin in Firefox, and it saved the video to my computer as 'get_video' (5.4Megs) , which I renamed to 'get_video.flv', and it now plays in VLC Player perfectly.

Just for kixx, I also took the Paxman/Howard YouTube video, Paxman/Howard Interview, and pasted the link into Vixy, Vixy FLV Online Transcoder, which converted it into .avi ( the first time I chose avi format), and also .mov. ( I tried again, choosing .mov, as I thought it might be a better format for video editing).

It worked absolutely fine on both occasions - you've gotta be doing something wrong, somewhere, dude.

Thanks alot for that Scribble for a star

Vixy as worked a treat and has been firmly bookmarked. Using .flv would mean that I'd have to fraps it to be able to edit it in premiere.


Avi's are super for editing its what format I keep all my original copies as bloody huge files but lovely quality.