YouTube is reaching out to San Francisco local media to test a new iteration of the YouTube Direct platform. Launched last November, YouTube Direct is intended to be used by publishers to locate and distribute video captured by amateurs and uploaded to the YouTube site, and it has been used well by bigger named in news such as NPR, or ABC’s Good Morning America.
However, local news outlets have not embraced the YouTube Direct platform as a tool for enhancing their news coverage. For this reason, YouTube will reportedly use San Francisco as a sort-of showcase. YouTube staff are currently looking for local contributors in San Francisco to test out the YouTube Direct platform.
“We launched YouTube Direct in November, and it’s been a great way for news organizations to easily leverage citizen reporting on YouTube,” YouTube’s comment on the matter reads, according to CNET. “We’re currently experimenting with new ways to make the platform more useful, and we’ll have more to announce on that front soon.”
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How can i download YouTube Videos to my system?
Everybody have this question. YouTube uses flash player for playing video files.
The advantage of flash player is , most of the web browsers now support swf files. The format of the video is FLV. So if you download the video from youtube , you only get the flv format of the video. So you need flv player in your system. Windows Media Player’s Latest version supports flv file format .But it is impossible to download the flv file directly from the youtube site. If you take “view source” you cant see any flv files or any “save target as link” there. There are a lot of websites and web tools to download flv files from youtube video url. But these all are not working now, since youtube have changed there default website structure and implemention of the flv player. So these above sites will give you a result “Invalid URL Entry”.
Here the ultimate and simple way to download any video or audio which is playing from your browser (not only youtube videos) can be downloaded using “Firebug”, Mozilla’s Plugin.Download YouTube Videos
Steps for downloading flv video are:
1) Take the YouTube Video in your mozilla browser
2) Today i can see a get_video link, it may not be same as the youtube all the time. If you + (expand) that, You can see the header part of that file,
saying :Content Type: video/flv
3) From the All/Net tab you can see all the downloading contents. From that find which url is downloading an flv file.
4) Right Click on that link and click copy location. This is the url for your flv file. Download using browser or any download manager like flashget etc.
