If saving YouTube videos as favorites and making your own playlists online with their services isn’t enough to quench your thirst for their literal flood of content, TubeSock lets you take things one step further by allowing you to save the videos and even convert them for your iPod.
It’s a small utility that allows you to enter a YouTube URL or simply a video ID, and it can show you a preview of the movie and offer a couple of saving and export options including H.264, PSP, audio-only and even a plain Flash FLV file. TubeSock can also install a bookmarklet in Safari for speedier delivery, and it can even send exported videos straight into iTunes to complete the ultimate YouTube-to-iPod workflow.Convert YouTube videos
After playing with the demo, I’m impressed. Compression is impressively speedy, and for bonus points it automatically cleans up the Flash file it dowloads once exporting is done.
The demo is limited to exporting only the first 30 seconds of any video until you fork over the $15 registration fee. TubeSock is a Universal Binary and available from stinkbot.
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Download Youtube videos - Last time I explained how YouTube videos can be downloaded with gawk programming language by getting the YouTube page where the video is displayed and finding out how the flash video player retrieves the FLV (flash video) media file.
This time I’ll use Perl programming language which is my favorite language at the moment and write a one-liner which downloads a YouTube video.Instead of parsing the YouTube video page, let’s look how an embedded YouTube video player on a 3rd party website gets the video.
Let’s go to this cool video and look at the embed html code:
For this video it looks as following:
<object width=”425″ height=”350″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtuberobot.com/products/images/2008/08/oneliner-embedded-xj8.jpg”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtuberobot.com/products/images/2008/08/oneliner-embedded-xj8.jpg” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”350″></embed></object>
So far we have no information how the flash player will retrieve the video, the only thing we know that ‘iurl’ stands for ‘image url’ and is the location of the thumbnail image.
The FireFox’s alternative to this tool is Live HTTP Headers extension which basically does the same as HttpWatch Professional but it takes more time to understand the output.
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There are several download YouTube videos and convert and transfer them to watch on your iPod or in iTunes.
For Windows Users:
1. You’ll then need an FLV player to view the file. VLC is excellent, and there is a version for most operating systems.
2. Download the file. In Firefox, you can use an extension, Video Downloader for Firefox. Also works for Google Video, MySpace, iFilm, and more.
If you use Internet Explorer or another browser (though this also works for Firefox users), just copy the link of the YouTube page for the video, paste that in the textbox at KeepVid.com, and download from there.
3.If you plan on watching it on your iPod video or PSP, there are several options:
a. Videora iPod Converter. A free program that converts videos of all sort (not just from YouTube but also .avi, .mov, .flv., etc.)
b. Use SUPER (freeware) to convert the FLV file into a compatible video format. SUPER can convert to just about any format, i.e., PSP, iPods, and GP2Xes.
c. For PSP, encode to the mp4 format with PSP Video 9
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For Mac Users:
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