![]() ![]() Hulu changed its setup a couple of months ago to stop from downloads videos with the likes of Streamtransport. Oh, and there are no watermarks!Ī possible argument that YouTube is not concerned about downloads of videos may be because it is not physically attempting to block downloads with the tools mentioned in the article and in the comments. I’ve found that its highest-resolution mp4 conversions are far superior to anything I ever got using VDH, such that I’ve gone back to the original sources for videos that I’d originally captured with VDH and re-ripped them with PYT. When clicked (I keep it in my bookmarks toolbar in Firefox), it pops up an interface that shows all the possible resolutions and file formats (among the ones that it supports). I’ve switched to PwnYouTube (like Savagess), and have had great success using the PwnYouTube bookmarklet–look for it in the “Download Tools” section of the page link provided by Savagess (above). Also, I wasn’t happy with the resolution, and (at the time) couldn’t suss out a way to download high resolution streams. I used to use Video DownloadHelper (VDH), but it includes (at least it did last year) a watermark on the video that spoils the quality IMO. As a consequence my opinion of Windows Secrets has seriously taken a big hit.Īnother one not mentioned and I use quite regularly is PwnYouTube There is no way that Google nor anyone else should be expected to convert all their vids so that Apple appliances can view them under such outrageous circumstances – that is, it is not a technical issue but a commercial one where Apple are trying to seize the ground from Adobe and myopic people like Woody have taken Apple’s tactics as hook, line and sinker. For Apple to systematically dis-allow the use of flash on the iPad in the meantime is quite outrageous and it is incredible that no-one has held them to account. Sure, HTML 5 is on the way, but that is a migration path. Jobs and co have gone out of their way to disable the use of Flash which has become the de facto web video standard. YouTube just hasn’t taken the time or care to convert formats. “Try to play them on your iPad or iPhone, and you might get an obscure, bogus error message about a server malfunction. ![]() What kind of an ignorant, or deliberately misleading comment was that in the article?! It makes the screen-recording method redundant!īB Flashback Express is my screen recorder of choice, btw. If you’re going to link to NirSoft, the really invaluable tool is WebVideoCap – it actually looks at the TCP/IP packets to reconstruct videos that can’t even normally be salvaged from the browser cache. The other good thing is it works with any video (if it’s in the cache), not only those from Youtube: It will examine your cache and list all videos present, allowing you to copy the one you want elsewhere to watch later or to play it straight from the cache. The solution, is a nice free small portable app (so requires no installing) by Nirsoft called Video Cache View. The downside, is that it means scrabbling through your browser cache to find it and the cache may be quite large if not emptied recently and the video may not have an easily recognisable name. Most of the time, this is to your browser cache (although some apps will download to their own special folder, such as the DivX Web Player for example). Indeed! To view or buffer any video online it must actually download to your computer. flv files – needs the appropriate Irfanview plugin. No need for any fancy software to do a pretty trivial task. ![]() You will find it in your browser cache! The file name in cache may not be obvious but you can usually quickly identify it and copy it elsewhere, changing its extension to. Not mentioned in the article is the most obvious way of ‘downloading’ videos. ![]()
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