Comments on: Capturing the Elusive Streaming Video https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Tom https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2338 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:05:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2338 Is everything we can download worth downloading? Hmmm… Well, not everything.But it is interesting how our ideas of individuality always wind up being in part the result of an inherent desire to confound the will of authority.I think, therefore I am. I am therefore there is no absolute system.(apologies to Descartes)A counter Thought from,Tom

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2337 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:54:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2337 Gruntled: Go to your repositories and make sure “universe” is selected … reload repositories. Then search for “flash” in synaptic, and install it. There should be a version that has the name of your distribution and “nonfree” (which does not me “not free”). Restart firefox. That, or something like that, should do it.

]]> By: gruntled atheist https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2336 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:39:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2336 …you should chew your food 23 times…Grandma said 28 times and I never argue with Grandma.Anyway, I have Ubuntu 9.1 with Firefox 3.5.4 and Youtube videos will not play. I have seen a solution for this but cannot remember where.So I will try downloading. Thanks.

]]> By: Youtube downloader https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2335 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:23:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2335 Great guide!

]]> By: Magnus https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2334 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:42:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2334 Do you need to save a Youtube or Google video into a file?

Oh, only about every time I want to see one. Because I don’t have the necessary Flash plugin, and it’s not even supposed to be available for my platform. Don’t use Firefox either, but fortunately there’s a userscript available over at 1024k.de which makes it possible to download Youtube videos, and others.

(For the Firefox users out there, the Greasemonkey extension can run these scripts if you’re interested, but then there are already specific tools available to download video available for you.)

The catch is that as it is a userscript, it wants to run on the Youtube page for the video, so you need to fish the address for that out of the page source unless your friendly neighbourhood blogger has provided a direct link — which is something they don’t do. But at least it works in Opera, and I don’t have to switch browser and operating system.

So that’s yet another alternative there.

]]> By: Kapitano https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2333 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:11:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2333 I use Orbit Downloader, which is good for YouTube, GoogleVideo, Pandora, and also just as a download manager. Worth a try and free anyway.

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2332 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:57:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2332 I haven’t looked over the whole list but I installed video downloader 2.0 from videodownloader.net and have not had any problems with it. Then again I’m on an XP box so….. time to load up a linux box and start practicing my command line skills I guess :)Best of the New Year to you

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2331 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:39:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2331 Doug:Can you personally vouch for any of these? I have had very mixed luck with downloaders, and I have had mixed luck with having too many extensions and addons to my browser.In other words, one could ask the question in reverse. Slamming a command line into the terminal that always works is a very good solution. Why use an extension that sits there like a dumb monkey on your browser’s shoulder all the time and then might not work when it comes time to work?Besides, look at that command line … it uses awk, it uses grep. You could probably rewrite it to use sed. Obviously, one can make this into a bash command that you could stick on your Gnome bar to turn any video into some file on your desktop where it will always be handy. Then you can show the little icon to your children and say: “I programmed that…”But yes, if one of these works, fine. I have not recently tested downloading addins, having more or less given up on them for the time being.

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2330 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:21:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2330 nice – but if you’re using FF already why not just use one of the dozens of video/media downloader extensions available :)https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=YouTube&status=4

]]> By: Badger3k https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2329 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:43:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/28/capturing-the-elusive-streamin/#comment-2329 There is a website that can convert some videos to flv files (that play on any flash-capable browser) – http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php , and it is simple to take that to ffmpeg, visualhub, or others to convert to different formats. Mac users also have access to TubeTV which can download and convert videos directly (not sure if this is available for other systems, only use Mac and XP currently, although I may install Linux on my Mac as well, just to try it out.

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