By Erich Vieth on January 30th, 2009
How to download a youtube video and play that flv file.
How can you download a youtube video and then play that flv file on your desktop?
I’ve been wondering how to do this, because I sometimes find compelling videos where I wonder whether they will be available in the future. Here’s one answer. It’s a site by “applian technologies” (not affiliated with youtube) that advises you to insert “pwn” after “www.” and before “youtube . . . “ It’s all free and it does give you an option to NOT download applian’s propriety browser toolbar. The site also offers a stand-alone .flv player for youtube videos that you download. I tried the downloader and the player and they both worked perfectly.
These might come in handy someday soon.
Erich that is extremely useful information! Thanks for posting that.
I’m going to steal that link and post it on my forum as if I found it myself and be a HERO to dozens!!
Those of us with serious technoidal tendencies that use linux can do this already and even convert to other formats.
I’ve been using this multi-site video downloader
and
this flv player
since I realized how ephemeral some videos on YouTube or other sources can be. Unfortunately, I often don’t think of making a local copy until it’s too late. I still mourn having lost a delightful mashup of Peter Tork’s “Alvin”.
Dan: Thanks. Another good option for downloading video to preserve it.
On the Mac side there’s the donationware “TubeTV”, which will play, download and convert into a format of choice.
For Mac Safari users the shareware plugin “Cosmopod” does that from the button bar with a click.