Rip audio from Youtube videos

[DominicB]

Hi all

Not sure if this is in the right forum ... :confused:

Is it possible to rip the audio from videos uploaded onto Youtube?
Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial or anything.

As usual, grateful for any suggestions ...

DominicB

[Keiyakusha]

sure it is possible. most of new videos are in mp4. doanload video, demux audio, done.
Don't know about tutorials, to me it looks too simple to have tutorial.

[DominicB]

Hi Keiyakusha

Thanks for the reply.

I can strip the audio from an MP4 file, but aren't all Youtube videos some kind of flash file? I can't figure how to extract the file to my hard drive as an MP4 file.

Would you be able to elaborate?

Thanks:)

DominicB

[Skelsgard]

Some Youtube downloading sites (just google for "download Youtube" and you'll find plenty) have the option to choose FLV or MP4 for download.
If you already have the FLV's, then check Moitah's FLV Extract at http://www.moitah.net/ (you'll need .NET Framework 2.0)

[DominicB]

Hi Skelsgard

Thanks for the advice.
It's bedtime here in the UK:D, but I'll look into it tomorrow.

Thanks again.

DominicB

[Keiyakusha]

If you mean .swf - thats just player, not the actual file. The file also can be .flv or .3gp, but most of the videos should have .mp4 version.
As for extracting to harddrive... I'm using firefox so its pretty easy to take file from browser's cache. Also there is plenty nice plugins like this one (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10137). I never looked for non-firefox ways for that. As for download sites they may be good, but many of them do some kind of reencoding.

[Skelsgard]

If you mean .swf - thats just player, not the actual file. The file also can be .flv or .3gp, but most of the videos should have .mp4 version.
As for extracting to harddrive... I'm using firefox so its pretty easy to take file from browser's cache. Also there is plenty nice plugins like this one (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10137). I never looked for non-firefox ways for that. As for download sites they may be good, but many of them do some kind of reencoding.

Keepvid.com does downloading without recompressing the stream, either as FLV or MP4, you choose.
And FLV stands for FLash Video, that's what he's talking about, not SWFs

[DominicB]

I've tried a few of the ways and have gone for the Firefox add-on, as it goes straight to MP3 in one step.

Thanks for all the advice.

DominicB