[X4U] youtube

[Tom Renaud]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:25 AM, Eugene wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:47:10AM CDT, Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be 
> > wrote:
>> On 01 Apr 2008, at 17:09, Daly Jessup wrote:
>>> Paul Moortgat answered:
>>> Bob asked:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way to save a youtube video off of a web site? Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Use Perian. <http://perian.org/> and click "Watch" for the video.
>>>
>>> Could you clarify this, Paul? I have Perian installed and have had  
>>> for a
>>> long time. YouTube movies show up and play just fine. But I find no
>>> "Watch" button in the Perian pref pane, and otherwise have no idea  
>>> how to
>>> follow what you are suggesting as a way to save the video to the  
>>> computer.
>>
>> The Watch button is on the Perian website.  Maybe you didn't  
>> download it
>> from somewhere else.
>
> Parsing the URL from the Activity window in Safari?
> It'd be nicer to be able to right-cilck Flash video
> and bring up a contextual menu to download it.

If you use Firefox, try the DownloadHelper plugin.