Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files - An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube.
Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append “&fmt=18″:
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=ID&t=SIGNATURE&fmt=18
ID is the video’s identification value, SIGNATURE is a value that prevents you from downloading the file just by knowing the ID. You could create this URL by looking at the source code of a YouTube page, but it’s much easier to automatically generate it.
One way is to save the following link as a bookmarklet by dragging it to your Links bar (in Firefox, Safari) or right-clicking and adding it to your favorites (in Internet Explorer, Opera):
If you didn’t manage to add the bookmarklet, this post has more detailed instructions.
When you want to download YouTube video, click on the bookmarklet and you should see a new option below the embeddable code.
Because YouTube doesn’t send the right MIME type, you shouldn’t click on the download link. Right-click and select “save link as” or “save target as” and enter a proper name for the video. Make sure to use the .mp4 extension when you enter the filename.
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Convert YouTube videos - YouTube clips are everywhere these days, and I must admit I’m addicted to the site. Nevertheless, I’ve had a couple of small annoyances with YouTube videos. I wanted to be able to play my favorite ones on standalone DVD/DivX players. I also found I couldn’t go backwards or forwards when playing the site’s Flash videos with MPlayer.
the videos to your computer. Youtube-dl is the perfect tool for the job; check Joe Barr’s article for more information. If you use Firefox you can also try the VideoDownloader extension. You will need a recent version of MPlayer with Mencoder built with support for Flash Video; if you can play the .flv videos with MPlayer you’re good to go.
For those reasons, I decided to convert my favorite YouTube videos to DivX or XviD formats. Here’s how you can do the same.Convert YouTube videos
Before starting the conversion you need to download
Now save the following lines as flv2avi.sh. Make the file executable with chmod 755 flv2avi.sh and copy it in a directory in your PATH (/usr/local/bin is a good candidate):
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The online video sharing space has exploded in the recent months with the entry of new players like Metacafe, Blip.tv, Revver, Yahoo Videos and so on. Millions of video clips, technology shows, music albums, movie trailers are available on these video sites for online viewing or they can also be downloaded to your hard drive for offline viewing.
Unless you are staying in an underground cave for more than a year without an internet connection, there’s a healthy chance that you have at least watched, if not downloaded, an online video on Google or Youtube Videos.
A lot of us know how to download Google Videos or Youtube videos from the internet but what do we do next ? Can we make the FLV video files searchable ? How do you edit FLV files ? All your questions and concerns are answered here
The downloaded Youtube video files are generally in FLV format (Flash Video) which is an Adobe standard for video compression. It has fast becoming the web standard for delivering online video (replacing Apple QuickTime, AVI, Windows Media and Real rm formats) because Flash Video can be viewed inside Macromedia Flash Players which is shipped by default with most web browsers.
How do I download videos from Youtube or Google Videos or Metacafe ?
It’s strange that none of the video sharing sites provide a simple one-click button to download Youtube videos. So we will have to take the help of easy workarounds to download the videos. Here are three different ways to download any video from the internet though internally, they employ the same hack (Right-click -> “Save Target As” OR copy the link into your download manager. but change the file extension to .flv)
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