Ok, so I want to get some music videos copied to my pc from youtube.

 

A friend of mine suggested Orbit downloader, I installed it and could never figure out how to use it.

 

Is there an easier way to do this?

 

Thanks, Dan

Youtube converter

 

Easy to use (trust me, if I can use it, anyone can!)

 

Just copy the URL, paste into the thingy and away you go :)

 

download from cnet

realplayer has a download facil if you get the latest one

danny. orbit is easy to use mate. open orbit, click on new (which opens another box up with URL & save file as). go on youtube, right click on the link (in blue) & copy link location. paste that into the URL box on orbit & put whatever you want in the save as, then just click the ok button. it will do the rest on its own.

Hmmm, i tried the orbit downloader again, and it takes about 1 second to cmoplete a download but then wont open it at all...???

realplayer has a download facil if you get the latest one

 

Realplayer is ACE!!!!!

 

I download all my vids with that :D ahem..........:mac1:

how does the realplayer one work?

download realplayer's lastest from their site. When you install it you can configure it to have a tag popup over the video when it's playing(when you mouse cursor is put on the video playing) which asks if you wish to download video(which can be a directory of your choice when configuring realplayer) ones installed and configured you will always have this prompt whenever your cursor is placed on the video playing

Youtube converter

 

Easy to use (trust me, if I can use it, anyone can!)

 

Just copy the URL, paste into the thingy and away you go :)

 

download from cnet

 

I cant get this to work, it only plays sound

Let the whole video buffer to your hard drive. You'll know when it's done, because you'll be able to watch it to the finish. Then just go to your browsers temporary folder (or cache) folder. Organise the files by size. The video you just cached is probably the largest file in there. Just rename the file with .flv at the end of it.

Most modern media players should play flv files. If not, use VLC, it'll play everything.

just visit http://www.keepvid.com - dont need to install anything. just paste the URL of the vid and hit the download button ;)

You'll find that Youtube and the others are starting to re-encode various vids now to stop you using the current batch of web video ripping software.

I was trying the other night and Orbit couldn't do it, so had to try a couple of other ones until I found one that would.

Also Realplayer is fine for ripping them as long as thats all you want it to do, if you ever wanted to burn them then the only way would be to BUY the Full version of Realplayer, otherwise it wont let you, and it saves them in a specific file format that only Realplayer uses!

Wouldnt the quality be really poor? Just use torrents or something

none i can find will work with microsoft powerpoint.

 

I needed them for presentations. bugger

just visit http://www.keepvid.com - dont need to install anything. just paste the URL of the vid and hit the download button ;)

 

 

:bow::bow: agreed always use it !!

none i can find will work with microsoft powerpoint.

 

I needed them for presentations. bugger

 

If you want them to be in a Power Point presentation then you need to convert them into a format that it'll accept (.avi, .wmv etc) there are quite a few file converters out there, but most require you to pay for them, otherwise you'll only have part of it converted or a watermark added. the one I use is Kindia Video Converter ( http://www.kingdia.com/ ) very good and does almost everything out there

 

HTH

 

Dave

If you want them to be in a Power Point presentation then you need to convert them into a format that it'll accept (.avi, .wmv etc) there are quite a few file converters out there, but most require you to pay for them, otherwise you'll only have part of it converted or a watermark added. the one I use is Kindia Video Converter ( http://www.kingdia.com/ ) very good and does almost everything out there

 

HTH

 

Dave

 

agreed. i think the default format tends to be mp4 or flv and i often end up needing to convert them to mpg or something

i use a program called dvdvideosoft just paste all the video url's into it that you want then hit download and it does them all in mp4 format for you