how to d/l from youtube? [Archive]

Dew

14th July 2008, 06:04

I have managed to d/l from youtube by inserting"kiss"after the www. however it is now on my desktop and seems to be not playing properly as it does not do the complete clip...it hesitates and restarts.
My Java is uptodate...and I don't know where to look next?
I am wondering how to simply get the "you tube clip" without the play arrow that I have to activate?
I was wanting to burn it onto a dvd, and I have Nero 6.6.0.18 and xpsp2 OS.
I would appreciate experienced advice, thank you for your time.
I apologize if the question sounds silly.
However, I thought that I could get it to work but it won't.
Kind Regards.

scott274

14th July 2008, 07:12

Install the DownloadHelper plugin from Mozilla Firefox. You will be able to save the youtube video in .flv format. You can then convert the .flv flash file to any other format like mpeg, avi, dvd etc. with the help of Total video converter (shareware) or SUPER converter (freeware).

Dew

14th July 2008, 07:28

Hmmm....I have IE 7. Is this the only solution...which is for a non-techie like me.
Thank you for the reply, it is greatly appreciated.
Cheers.

scott274

14th July 2008, 07:33

Trust me :) Drop IE and start using firefox browser. But if you still want to keep up with IE then type "youtube video download" in google and you will get a lot of online downloading sites for saving youtube videos as ".flv". From there on use the converters I suggested..

Dew

14th July 2008, 10:55

I have to use IE7 for work purposes on my notebook, and I really don't understand about the converters?
I came across the "Kiss" addition and thought that was all that was needed and yet I am having problems. I am not tech oriented and so again apologize for the simple query.
Thank you for your time.

Dew

15th July 2008, 00:28

I want to burn the clip eventually to a dvd and have read that these clips from you tube are so compressed that the quality of the flv. is extremely poor.

Any comments, as I puzzle over the way to do this and read up on Super Converter.
I really appreciate the help....being a non techie I am not sure about the install of firefox and whether after I do the install of it and use Super Converter will the quality be alright to play on a stand alone dvd player??
Again thank you for your time and patience with this ill equipped and informed noob at this.

scott274

15th July 2008, 00:40

Stop thinking you are not tech oriented and handicapped. That way you will never learn anything. And I don't care what what you think about "kiss" etc, did you try the google idea I gave you if you want to presist with IE7. Youtube videos are in .flv format and first have to be downloaded on your harddisk (which they don't allow). And play the downloaded .flv videos in VLC player (search google, download & install) to make sure they play allright or not.

Further about converters, you say you want to burn the downloaded youtube videos to DVD to watch on your DVD player isn't it. Well DVD players can't play .flv format videos. Hence you will first have to use a video converter like SUPER, total video converter, convertxtodvd etc to convert .flv video to DVD compliant video before authoring them to a DVD CD image and then burning the DVD CD image to a CD with Nero.

Ofcourse as suggested to you on VH forums, youtube .flv videos are already highly compressed (comparibly bad video quality) and makes a fairly bad source for converting to dvd spec video. But it's upto you if you like the quality or not. Also as told to you before, you can still use Firefox browser (search for it on google, download & install) as a second browser and use the DownloadHelper plugin for it (again google for it) to download flash videos to your harddisk.

Dew

15th July 2008, 02:06

Thank you for the comments. I am not tech oriented...I did not know anything of the flv as an example re non-playable on a stand-alone dvd player and that is why I introduce myself in that manner, b/c I do these things as a hobby off and on I am not fluent in what is possible or impossible. I am sorry if by assessing my knowledge that it is interpreted as negative as believe me I am not a negative person...I am up front so that members can understand my expertise.
Thank you....no ill was intended by describing my meagre computer app knowledge.

fazzaz31

15th July 2008, 02:54

xVideoServiceThief is a standalone free downloader available from Sourceforge (http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/index.php?action=downloads).

It will download any format and also has a built-in .flv/.avi video converter.

manono

15th July 2008, 09:26

One way to get the videos is by sticking the link into KeepVid, which then allows you to download them:

http://keepvid.com/

With recent YouTube videos you'll have up to 3 different versions of the video available, 2 of them in "high quality", none of them worth a damn for converting to DVD.

robinsonlove

15th July 2008, 15:31

I've also attempted to convert an FLV file that repeatedly produces an AVI file with super where the audio is not in sync with the video, then I try ediaEncoder, total, ffmpeg, total ,riva, Moyea, geovid etc. and only moyea , total and geovie give the best video and audio output.or you can google for get a youtube converter have complete functions to download and convert YouTube video to :)

Dew

15th July 2008, 22:24

I did get the 'You Tube Downloader Vers. 2.1.6 from:
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ and it works very well with the copy and paste and download and play and converts to WMV except I have 1 stubborn clip where the audio only plays and I have used gspot and got the error:
Video not able to be rendered only audio 0X00040242.
I can't seem to find out much about the error, except that it is possibly a codecs?
The Codec MPEG-2 Layer 3 was in the summary??
I don't really understand that.
But I am find that this app works quite nicely except for this glitch here.

cdanddvdpublisher

15th July 2008, 22:58

fazzaz31

16th July 2008, 01:07

Originally Posted by Dew View Post
I did get the 'You Tube Downloader Vers. 2.1.6 from:
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ and it works very well with the copy and paste and download and play and converts to WMV except I have 1 stubborn clip where the audio only plays and I have used gspot and got the error:
Video not able to be rendered only audio 0X00040242.
I can't seem to find out much about the error, except that it is possibly a codecs?
The Codec MPEG-2 Layer 3 was in the summary??
I don't really understand that.
But I am find that this app works quite nicely except for this glitch here.

"...Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't." - Old Lodge Skins

Dew

16th July 2008, 02:11

I just wanted to thank everyone for their input as I appreciated the help.
I did manage to get the stubborn video on that one "clip" by using the http://keepvid.com
as recommended earlier and so I will keep both programs on hand.

Now I am in the dilemma of conversion here which I don't know anything about either since I want to convert to dvd.

Cheers.

fazzaz31

16th July 2008, 02:42

Now I am in the dilemma of conversion here which I don't know anything about either since I want to convert to dvd.

Before you get all huggy and like that, play those converted (I assume to avi) vids on a decent-sized TV. You will note they are pretty crappy. You want to keep them around, swell, forget about DVD and burn them as data files on CD and save yourself a lot of time, expense and red eyeballs.

They are for the most part flv or wmv low-rez files at 1st generation, even lower rez with the 2nd generation avi conversion, and you want to do a third pass? which will just make lower quality files, except they will be HUGE, low quality files.

Skip it, it ain't worth it.

IMHO.

Dew

16th July 2008, 03:05

I am sorry if you feel comments of thanks are "huggy"...I think in forums that you have to be thankful for what small mercies one gets in life.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what is fuzzy to you maybe quite acceptable to others who are removed by technology of being able to enjoy clips from youtube and in spite of the "clarity of images" it will brighten up the presentation and add enjoyment to their life!
I'm not worried that everyone will need glasses... I am simply trying to add smiles to people's faces who have had tough times from the beginning.
Again I express my thanx to the forum and again talk about the conversion issue..... which ways negatively on your mind.
Sorry to have caused you such "fretting".
Ciao.

fazzaz31

16th July 2008, 07:59

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what is fuzzy to you maybe quite acceptable to others who are removed by technology of being able to enjoy clips from youtube and in spite of the "clarity of images" it will brighten up the presentation and add enjoyment to their life!

My apologies; you're quite right. I've been spoiled, I guess, by my access to high tech machinery.

Bearing in mind that you will get VOB (dvd) files about 6x larger than the avi's you start out with, I guess the convenience of having them in DVD format outweighs the lowered quality.

OK, get yourself this free program DVDFlick (http://www.dvdflick.net/download.php). Pop in your avi files and sit back. Recoding into the larger DVD-VOB format will take some time. Depending on your equipment, of course, expect a couple of hours to fill a single-side DVD disc.

Good luck, and keep on spreading the cheer!

Dew

16th July 2008, 08:15

Thankyou for the pleasant reply and believe me I had no ill intent with the post. I was basically stating the sad facts.
My 'youtube' clips take up no more than 15 minutes if that and so with the process that you propose, will this take a lot of time?
One is mp4 and the others are wmv and are short.
I gather that I will have to use different 'encoders' for each of the 'wav' amd the 'mp4', however I am out to lunch on that note !
Again simply an expression of my experience and meant not to offend.
Thank you so much with what has been stated to date and any comments on what I have to do re conversion with these would be greatly appreciated.
Ciao and I hope to hear from you soon.

dat720

16th July 2008, 08:17

Im with fazza, youtube vids are not worth the effort to put on a DVD, leave them where they belong.... on youtube.

fazzaz31

16th July 2008, 09:05

One is mp4 and the others are wmv and are short.
I gather that I will have to use different 'encoders' for each of the 'wav' amd the 'mp4', however I am out to lunch on that note !

Interesting. My experience is that all YouTube files are flv (Flash). If you used either of the downloaders suggested above, you should have converted them to avi (Xvid) in either case. MP4s are for iPods (make smaller); Xvid/avi to to convert to DVD (make bigger).

Go back and recode the flv's to Xvid, then pop those suckers into DVD Flick.

fazzaz31

16th July 2008, 09:16

Wait a minute! I'm an idiot.

Do you mean MP4 or MPEG4?

MPEG4 is Xvid is a video file codec and MP4 is a music (audio) file.

DVD Flick does not support wmv files.

manono

16th July 2008, 15:01

These days most YouTube videos are produced in 3 forms; the standard quality FLV, the higher quality FLV, and the higher quality MP4.

Nightshiver

16th July 2008, 18:15

But they all still look like crap. It's to bad that stage6 went down. The next best thing to stage6 is Vreel.net, which also uses the Divx technology.

setarip_old

16th July 2008, 18:28

@fazzaz31

Hi!Wait a minute! I'm an idiot...
MP4 is a music (audio) file.
DVD Flick does not support wmv files.1) The .MP4 extender is not limited to audio

2) DVD Flick accepts .WMV files for input

fazzaz31

16th July 2008, 20:29

1) The .MP4 extender is not limited to audio

2) DVD Flick accepts .WMV files for input

1) I bow to master.
2) Grasshopper learns sometime new ever day.

3 Confused AWF with SWF: Dew's recode problem above, methinks. (DVD Shrink only recodes audio portion of SWF stream. Same thing I ran into, but it wan's a YouTube rip.))

setarip_old

16th July 2008, 23:35

@fazzaz31

Perhaps you're trying too hard to be helpful? DVD Shrink only recodes audio portion of SWF stream.1) DVD Shrink does not accept .SWF files/streams of any kind as input - only DVDs, DVDs ripped to hard drives, or .ISO image files of DVDs.

2) DVD Shrink does not, in any way, alter/recode audio

fazzaz31

17th July 2008, 03:37

DVD Shrink only recodes audio portion of SWF stream.

"DVD Shrink" is a typo.

Not enough caffeine.

Dew

18th July 2008, 01:15

I appreciate the comments from everyone. I have been back into the Forum and trying to find my threads....sorry for the silly question however I have looked in Quick Links, User CP and clicked on my Name at the bottom of all of the listed forums and can't find where I click on to see my posts/threads. I thought that awhile back I simply clicked onto my name at the bottom where all the presently active users are listed?
I hope someone can help out, thankyou.