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YouTube video > DownloadHelper > save to Videos on your computer > copy to flash drive. Don't trust YouTube to not delete your video. DownloadHelper Firefox extension or a version for other browsers you can find.
I use the downloadhelper plugin for firefox . It puts a little icon beside your address bar. It lets you know when you can download any of the videos on a page you are on. click it once and it downloads the video. Works great for vimeo as well.
Try the FireFox extension Download Helper. May work.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
EDIT: Make sure you don't try to download it until it starts playing. It can't capture the stream until it plays. And sometimes I have to let the entire video play before it will finish the download all the way.
Awesome! You are definitely ahead of the game, there...
You can use DownloadHelper to download most FLV (Flash) videos... though it often requires a flash viewer starting up before it can/will grab the video (or, at least I've not figured out a consistent way around this, myself).
Also, VideoLAN's VLC Player will play most formats, including FLV.
Jacking your comment for pertinent info--DOWNLOAD HELPER is a firefox extension that will allow you to directly download most vids from sites so you can upload and host them wherever you want and not have to worry about YT bullshit poicies and whatnot. Spread the love. Link provided above, or simply google it.
Try FileBlender.
File Blender is an extensible and customizable file conversion and processing tool - Video Converter, Image Converter, Audio Converter, PDF/TIFF Splitter and Joiner and more.
The above, combined with 'Download Helper' Plugin for Firefox should allow you to do most of what you listed.
I use an awesome extension for Firefox called DownloadHelper. It will detect any and all FLV files on a YouTube page and allow you download them in an .mp4 format. Highly recommended.
http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/278377/LAVA-PIXAR-Short-Film-Inside-Out-Disney-HD/
Full, unaltered video. And when I say video, I don't just mean still images from the video. I mean the actual video. Download it now, before Disney finds this link. Use Video DownloadHelper.
keep us updated. Like other commenters said, make it a chrome extension. If you want any testing or anything, ask us. Make a subreddit if you have the chance, it'd be pretty awesome to help influence the development for something. Also, please, don't add the search bar or custom folders or screen caps. We have other extensions and third-party programs for that.
There is a firefox extension that does what you say, but it's on firefox only. I'd love a version for chrome. http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Download Download Helper for Firefox. Open the link in Firefox. Click play on the individual songs. Click on the down arrow on Download Helper by the back and forward buttons and download each .mp3
If you use Firefox, Download Helper is a fantastic add-on. Alternatively, you can use KeepVid which supposedly works well and does not require installing any extensions, but I've never really used it. I prefer these to the freemake tool since these are more OS "independent."
I meant to say http://www.downloadhelper.net
And since Firefox can be installed in Mac and VLC too, both are Mac compatible.
I have used Video DownloadHelper to download a race but I wasn't able to choose the quality so it was 540p or something.
And it will get throttled. The video will be sent to you at the pace that you would normally watch it at, so it will likely take as long to download as it takes to stream the whole thing.
Try a few different video downloader addons/extensions, see if anything works better for you.
Your other option is Usenet. Races from BT Sport are posted there in HD. I get those for saving. For example, I went to Indy, so I downloaded those races in 1080p. Better commentary too.
If your ISP has a Usenet server, you can try a few NZB indexer sites, download an "nzb" file there, load it up into an nzb downloader, point it at your ISP's usenet server and go at it. If you're new to all this, google for more info, or ask me for help.
solid video
It's too bad there isn't an easier audio-only type of site but youtube will do for now. For those who want to save the audio since the video isn't too important for many of these:
in firefox I use video download helper or the keepvid.com site to get the URL for downloading, then for pause/resume & speed-control I also use the downthemall add on for firefox.
In the URL there may be no title. If there is it has &title= as the start of it. If you change this in the URL before saving it that becomes your file name.
With both keepvid & video downloadhelper I choose the format 3gp which is cell/mobile, highly compressed, audio is not super-high quality but for a monologue or conversation instead of music it's perfect. The file sizes are so tiny even when I convert to mp3 they just get bigger and aren't better quality so I leave them as-is (and they play fine in VLC).
I use videodownload helper or keepvid.com: the reason is you can select various video quality levels and file size or you can use audio. When I get problems with audio-only I just get the video in mp4 480p or 3gp cell quality, strip the audio myself with audacity and erase the video file. Sometimes 3gp is even smaller though so I just keep that file as-is.
Don't know if they know. I checked the page for the add-on on Mozilla's official add-on page, and some users said the current beta version of DownloadHelper works with Firefox v36.
I installed it, and it works. http://www.downloadhelper.net/install-beta.php?version=5.0.0a3
First of all, depending on your location, and what you are streaming, it could be illegal. Don't do anything illegal.
Now on to the answer.You say you stream. Then you can Dl it too. I don't know how to do it with anything but firefox, but on firefox it is easy. Just install the addon DownloadHelper. This will give you an icon you can click to DL whatever media is on the current page. This is the best way to do it, as it is for legal things too. I use it all the time to offline my Youtube subs for later viewing
XBMC WINS for all media playing, I use it for all media playing, including video's I DL with the firefox plugin.
In order to be complete, I would also say you can install XBMC, and get the CLIQ addon, from xbmchub.com. This makes streaming easier as well as letting you DL anything too. Not sure how, as I never used it, but I know you can use it.
I've personally had great success with the Video DownloadHelper plugin for Firefox. I'm a chrome-person my self, but it's difficult to find good video download plugins for Chrome as any plugin that can grab from youtube gets banned from the official channels. I think you can download it from here: http://www.downloadhelper.net/install.php
Here you go. Nice video, wish there was more.
If you're curious, VideoDownloadHelper handles these things like a champ.
I use firefox with downloadhelper to get the .flv. I then use Super to convert it to .wav. Not sure if it's the best way, but it works.
I suppose I could do that, but an easier method would be for you to download this or a similar tool and then you can download pretty much any streaming video at your leisure.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Download that ...
You can now download the MP4 of the video from YouTube
Now, go here
Upload the MP4
You can then convert it to MP3
If anyone has an easier way please let me know...BTW, took about 4 minutes from MP4 to MP3
Chrome: Install this.There will be a download option beneath the video.
Firefox: Download this. Icon will appear by address bar. Go to YouTube and download.
IE: Don't know. I haven't used IE in a while.
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http://www.downloadhelper.net/ This is the Firefox plugin I use to download flash video from just about anywhere. I have yet to find a place it doesn't work. It updates regularly and offers to convert from .flv to anything you wish, but that does cost extra. Frankly it isn't needed as there are plenty of free .flv viewers out there.
Another vote for Download Helper. A great little utility that I miss when not in Firefox. I was gonna mention that it also converted but then I saw you had to register for it to not have a watermark or to enable mp3 encoding. (And btw, this will download the entire video file, when possible, so you don't need to "record while playing" or what have you. That's why you may need a 2nd program to convert this first, and then you can delete the first, or keep it.)
Most often I can just play the flv/mp4 files without issue, but if I did want to convert, my main go-to convertor is X-Media Recode. Link goes to portable freeware which can help you change the language away from its default German. Great program, though, and free. And it has presets for multiple formats. It may be a tad more complicated than what you are use to, though. Having looked at FileBlender, it looks quite nice, and may be a better option (and I'm going to go check it out now).
if you're using firefox, get this: http://www.downloadhelper.net/
you should be able to download that file as a .flv file (flash format). after that you'll have to use conversion software to move from .flv to say .avi or something.
download this (their site is hard to navagate but you'll find the file at some point lol):
http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html
edit: here is the direct d/l link. why they make it so hard to find is unknown to me: http://erightsoft.podzone.net/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe
best way and free way to do it, as far as i know.
What's your problem exactly?
If you have connectivity issues, try to connect your PC to your modem with a Ethernet cable, and see if it's better.
If you actually want a faster playback, download the video off Youtube using DownloadHelper, then play it in VLC. 2x playback is no problem; 4x playback will work, but with no sound; 16x playback is, IIRC, the limit.
Oh, I can think of a couple of places.
Downloadhelper will also let you save any track from soundcloud or bandcamp.
Rip the video with the plugin downloadhelper works with Firefox and Flock and re-upload it. YouTube might remove the video if to many people flag it. Download the MP4 file and 360p FLV file.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
Saving the videos is simple. If you have Firefox, I use an addon called Video Download Helper that lets me grab streaming .flv files off sites like this one and basically any other popular tube site (porn or otherwise) so that I can hang onto them for safe keeping in case they disappear. I'm sure there's similar tools for Chrome or Opera or whatever browser you may be using...
I use "Video Downloadhelper" (from http://www.downloadhelper.net/ )
It can download most youtube videos and most videos from all other sites. The only drawback is that for some videos it has to download the individual download streams and then aggregate them together which can take time and cpu.
For some videos you need to install a companion app that runs (automatically triggered from within firefox) within windows - this is only used for certain video formats which need the aggregation.
I have found it able to download videos that I have not been able to download with anyother software.
The only negative thing about the add-in is that videos that use the companion app get a watermark at the top left corner but it is small enough to ignore.
There is a youtube video on how to use it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZT8yI60k\_4
I hope this info helps.
couldn't find on my end. strongly encourage everyone to download copies for themselves, also great to build up different 'playlists' depending on your mood.
Some sites allow downloads, but I also use Video DownloadHelper so I can save any video that I like. Also great for converting 'hypno' or PMV videos to MP3 so I can enjoy them on my iTunes player in the car. :-) link for those interested: http://www.downloadhelper.net/
If you're doing that manually for every video, I like to use the free version of Video DownloadHelper in Firefox with the helper app installed. It'll detect the video elements and give you a nice easy interface to download. It works well if there are multiple videos on the page as well.
Also - you don't need to go for premium. I haven't and it's working fine.
I'm using VideoDownloadHelper and it works on *most* of the videos but if you use the free version it will take forever to download (and to add insult to injury add a QR code on your clip). http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Also changing the output directory is a pain.
This being said it's helped me out a lot and in retrospect is worth every penny I paid.
Works in Chrome and Firefox.
Note: I don't download much music videos, which, I am told, are those who are most protected.
I recommend the Video DownloadHelper browser extension. I've only tested it with Firefox.
If you don't mind a command line youtube-dl is very good. It can download a whole playlist.
You can use PotPlayer to play youtube videos, it has also the youtube skin, borderless window mode with option to have the navigation bar and playlist auto-hidden also in window mode, so it can be used to have 100% video, you can use ctrl+c in browser and ctrl+v in PotPlayer to play it, or just drag&drop.
To play other non-youtube videos use extenstion, e.g. Video DownloadHelper.
Video DownloadHelper works well for most flash based sites, but not for YouTube
Prior to the new FF Quantum you could have used YouTube Video and Audio Downloader by inbasic for Vevo and YouTube downloads, but it looks like he removed the option to download it back in September, and it's broken with Quantum if you already had it installed.
Trollmod to the help! You have 2 possibilities:
a) http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Indespensable anyway to capture all kind of media and streams. Just install (it comes as a symbol in the top of your browser), click on "Music On" on the website and DL (it's MP3 format).
b) PM me and I email you the file.
I (obviously) recommend Reddit Enhancement Suite, just like everyone else. But a couple of others I really like are:
- Media Hint - It hides your geographic location, for use on things like Netflix. There's quite a few extensions that do this, but older versions of Media Hint do it really well. Been using it for years. I say older versions (like the one I linked) because they started to charge for the service a while back. The older versions though, are still fre3e, and freely available.
- DownloadHelper - This thing operates sort of like YouTubeDownloader and others. Basically adds a button to your browser, that enables downloading of any media currently being displayed on your tabs. There's probably better extensions etc around for this by now, but I'm a creature of habit.
http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/278377/LAVA-PIXAR-Short-Film-Inside-Out-Disney-HD/
Full, unaltered video. And when I say video, I don't just mean still images from the video. I mean the actual video. Download it now, before Disney finds this link. Use Video DownloadHelper.
If you don't find a solution that you like, try this:
Update FF and install the latest beta/dev build of the add-on.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/install-beta.php?version=5.5.0a5
For future reference. Support forums for VDH.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/q_and_a.php
Ps; Like you, I don't like the new menus either, though they are configurable. Also, I've never had to pay for using the add-on. However, they do want money for some file conversion software, but free file conversion software is available elsewhere.
Firefox has an add-on called Video Download Helper It may be available for other browsers. Instructions on a Safari add-on are here
Yes.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
> It is also possible to capture all the images from a gallery in a single operation.
Also look at DownThemAll!
> DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want! Be in full control over your downloads, dedicated speed and number of parallel connections at any time. Use Metalinks or add mirrors manually to download a file from different servers at the same time.
- firebug - Awesome for web developers
- download helper - download youtube videos..etc.
I use these in firefox, pretty sure it's available for chrome as well.
you're right clicking on the download icon that turns red when you hover over it, correct? if that's not working you have other options to download this. Hopefully you're using firefox otherwise this won't help you.
you can go to options>applications and change the action that happens when you click on the link. Should be something like content type then the default action. change the default action to always ask or save file for whatever the content type that website uses.
Or you can install Download Helper you can use that to download streaming media for most websites. I assume when you left click on the link, it plays audio through the browser. you can use that add-on to download it.
what I use is DownThemAll! . It's a better download manager for firefox and adds more options to your right click menu.
If none of that works, re-install your OS.
shit has been a mainstay in my browser extensions for nigh on two years, don't know how i ever did without it. its only real weakness is that it works very sporadically on soundcloud.
The firefox addon http://www.downloadhelper.net/ might do it. Or http://www.downthemall.net/ I'm guessing that they don't want you to be able to pull their content, so whatever does work isn't likely to work for any extended length of time.
I've taken to just using the DownloadHelper extension in Firefox for any YouTube vid that is more than a few minutes long. That way I can just download the HD version of the YouTube video, and play it on my desktop in VLC Media player. Works on a lot of other sites, too. It adds a step or two (really just a right-click, a click, and a double-click), but I get smooth TV-like playback (especially on HD vids), with rewind, playback speed control, no buffering, etc.
Bonus: Now I have a copy of the vid I just viewed, in case I want to keep it for some reason. Since YouTube has a ton of BBC documentaries (Ha! Take that, PirateBay!), this is very handy.
Brazzers… why the hell does anyone even go there, when there’s meta searches like tubegalore.com and so many much better sites (the red ones)?
The actual reason you’re going to “hell” is because you used “brazzers“, a truly shitty site that only has soft-core shit and still has the audacity, to want money for it.
Here, let me give you a little push in the right direction:
http://www.downloadhelper.net/sites.php
The red ones. Free, hardcore, lots of content.
(Assuming you’re not crazy enough to surf the net without an ad blocker, of course.)
You’re welcome. :)
I like to grab videos of any appreciable length with a downloader like dwhelper and watch it with a decent player, not in a browser.
And even if your connection is fast enough to stream it, if you do it this way you can start to play the download immediately, thus enjoying the ability to play it back in VLC or whatever right away.
The first build in this Daily.
If you use DownloadHelper with Firefox, you can download the Daily and replay it until you get all the ordering written down.
Much better: http://www.downloadhelper.net/sites.php (the red ones)
Advantages:
- Rating / popularity.
- Description of content. (“High-quality, Slow, Sexy, Content-rich”)
- All sites listed there are supported by DownloadHelper. Meaning you can easily save the downloaded streams.
Any extension for your browser which saves streams (such as downloadhelper for firefox). Many sites are supported and for download helper the icon becomes "active", showing that something is currently being streamed and can be saved. Works on youtube, soundcloud, and many others. If the artist has put it up to be streamed, I don't see how saving it can be argued as piracy (but then I'm not an expert on the subject).
Another more general solution: there's a number of browser addins that allow you to download Youtube videos directly (I use DownloadHelper for Firefox but there are plenty of others out there). If you want to show your kid stuff from Youtube on a tablet with Youtube locked out you can collect it that way ahead of time.
I use the Download Helper extension for Firefox to get them off youtube. The website looks a bit rough, but the actual add-on is really good.
I agree with MyLittleVisuals though. I prefer the 720p iTunes rips, and it's a real shame that Hasbro have chosen to distribute their content through one of the largest proponents of DRM. Until I can legally obtain MLP episodes in the UK without DRM, then I'm afraid I'll continue to download them for free.
In (some) theory downloading copyrighted material isn't illegal, it's the uploading of it that is. The crime is in making and distributing a copy without permission, not in receiving it. And even then when it's under a certain threshold it's usually a civil matter rather than a criminal one.
But not only am I not a lawyer, not even a lawyer could really say for sure. Copyright law was originally written in an era where printing presses were the cat's pyjamas, it doesn't map very well to the modern Internet and modern computing. And of course it varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Anyway, as far as safety rituals are concerned I don't think any are needed for this if you use the direct download from PonyArchive approach mentioned by Snivian. If you want to be absolutely paranoidly sure, however, install a browers addon such as DownloadHelper and rip the videos from YouTube. There is no way that anyone outside of your computer can tell whether you're saving the video to disk or just watching it normally in Flash.
Downloadhelper is a bit of a resource hog in Firefox, but it's stupidly handy for downloading this type of stuff. It was able to detect that file on that page just fine.
Agreed on SC2Casts.com. Another download option is to use Firefox and the Video DownloadHelper extension, which can also grab those twitch.tv vids. That might be a better way--just grab 8-hour player or tourney videos. ;)
Why not just rip the video to your hard drive with Firefox use these plugins. Its good to have both sometimes sites do a small update and one will not work.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netvideohunter-video-downloade/
Formatfactory works fine. Really user friendly interface.
EDIT:
You can download the video using this firefox addon. I know there was something out there that can just extract the audio from a youtube clip or whatever, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called.
EDIT 2: So just download the clip with dw helper and then use format factory to take an audio track from the clip.
> all the favorites I have saved to it,
If I like a video, I just download it.
> my Gmail password (more complicated password reserved for sensitive sites linked with my debit card or bank account
Uh? You use the same password for several sensitive websites? You must really want problems.
Care to post your password here?
Ads? I never saw ads on Youtube. I think I discovered Adblock+ before I discovered Youtube.
Anyway, I'm not in the US, so I stopped trying to stream videos off Youtube. Especially in 720p. I just download them, and watch them offline with a far better player (MPC).
Rip the video with the plugin downloadhelper works with Firefox and Flock and re-upload it. YouTube might remove the video if to many people flag it. Download the MP4 file and 360p FLV file.
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
To answer the second part first, that's already been done. The second part, no. Music has licensing rights, which include when, were, and how it can be used. To use a real world example, let's say Arista Records publishes a new artists music video on youtube. Youtube has now been licensed to play the music video. Were you to download the music from youtube, you'd be bypassing Artista's licensing rights, and be afoul of the law.
DownloadHelper should help in terms of downloading the videos. Choose the mp4 downloads, as they're higher quality. When you download the video, you can call it whatever you'd like. You can download as many as you want at any given time, supposing your internet connection can take the downloads.. Best to do only one or two at a time, else they do tend to take quite a while.
As for playing, VLC is what I'd recommend. If you're on Windows, you could consider something such as the CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) if you need to play .flv files (I still prefer VLC for those). If you're downloading the mp4 files though, and you're on Windows 7 (or any Mac.. I'm not sure about random Linux distros) mp4 support is built in.