[X4U] youtube

[Eugene]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:50:36PM CDT, John McClernan <mcclernan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Eugene wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:18:41PM CDT, John McClernan 
>> <mcclernan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> All you really have to do is to hold down your "option" key and click on
>>> that URL in the Activity window. It will start downloading right away. 
>>> The
>>> downloaded file will be "get_video" but you can change it to any name you
>>> want, then add .flv to it and it will play in QuickTime after you have
>>> installed the Perian plugin. When it opens in QuickTime, you can "Save
>>> As..." a self-contained movie (.mov) or just leave it as .flv
>>
>> It's still too many steps.  And even though this works for YouTube and
>> the CGI app named "get_video", it does not work for non-YouTube sites
>> that use other CGI app names.
>
> Okay, name one.

How about three?

megavideo.com
dailymotion.com
metacafe.com

> I just finished a podcast for my graduate class and I used downloaded video 
> from more than a dozen sites OTHER THAN YouTube, because YouTube is blocked 
> in my school, so YouTube was not an option for me. I used the method I 
> described and the podcast was presented tonight in class and the videos 
> were beautiful.

Glad you found the video quality to be good enough.  But this is
irrelevant and tangental to the valid criticism that the specific
download method mentioned is not only Safari-specific, but still
takes too many steps.

> Besides, you only asked for a method of downloading for YouTube. That's 
> what was provided.

Not me.  That was Robert who asked for a YouTube solution.  Also,
he never mentioned a specific browser, so the solution to use the
Activity window in Safari is one correct method, but it is by no
means the only method out there for Safari or any other browser.


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Eugene
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