Comments (22)

1. rezpkt
   April 11th, 2007 | 13:21

   thanks should come in handy

2. ScytheNoire
   April 11th, 2007 | 13:23

   ummm… there’s firefox extensions that do this. not sure how well this program does it, or how fancy it is, but already doing this with firefox.

3. d
   April 11th, 2007 | 13:26

   “It’s also interesting to see that some of them are paid while the other doing exactly same or even worse work remains paid.”
   …

4. Martin
   April 11th, 2007 | 13:37

   d: fixed

5. Syk
   April 11th, 2007 | 13:46

   When i try playing the videos i download, i only get a blank screen.

6. REIDEEN
   April 11th, 2007 | 13:47

   hmmm, is the resolution when downloaded same as youtube format? 320×240?

7. Artifactz
   April 11th, 2007 | 14:15

   ya firefox extensions does this already

   DownloadHelper 2.2.1 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

   to play the flash files (flv or swf) u need a flv player

   FLV Player 1.3.3 http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html

   to convert the flv files to any format u want ie: mpeg-1, mpeg-2,dvd, etc… use Total Video Convert

   Total Video Converter 3.10 http://www.download.com/Total-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10654250.html?tag=lst-0-1

   the first are free but the converter u can download from torrent for full version

   Enjoy

8. bastido
   April 11th, 2007 | 14:33

   does anyone know of a mac osx youtube grabber??

9. phishybongwaters
   April 11th, 2007 | 15:02

   keepvid.com is a great solution.

   You can download from almost any video streaming site, usually in .avi,mp4, flv for linux,windows,Mac

   The firefox extension is painfully slow, and is now listed on the top 10 ff extensions to avoid.

   I’m gonna give this a go and see if it fixes the audio sync problems inherent with downloading files from these sites.

10. thepwnedguy
    April 11th, 2007 | 15:08

    i use this ! http://vdownloader.en.softonic.com/

11. dblmask
    April 11th, 2007 | 19:11

    did you try Democracy Player ??? It´way better for way less.

    http://www.getdemocracy.com/

    for Mac/Windows/Linux.

12. QuakeV
    April 11th, 2007 | 20:00

    I would like to see more video sites have HD video streaming. The video looks good in the iriginal small window, but when you go full size, you can barely tell whats going on.

13. bossnanova
    April 11th, 2007 | 21:14

    Here is what I use (just discovered it myself)…enter the link of the video and off you go…I mostly use it for google video…I just hope it lasts as you never know Hope it helps

    http://www.ripzor.com/googleripper.html

14. illithid
    April 12th, 2007 | 09:10

    Stupid people will pay for free things.

15. Manutau
    April 12th, 2007 | 13:12

    Stupid mean people will make useless remark like:
    “Stupid people will pay for free things.”

    But let them be mean as they won’t do anything else.
    Let them be.

16. Nocato
    April 12th, 2007 | 13:52

    When you have grabbed some videos from YOUTUBE.COM rename it from xxxxxxxx.flv to xxxxxxxx.avi and play it in Media Player Classic and it will work you won’t need the FLV Player

17. EndlessFall
    April 12th, 2007 | 15:26

    ripzor.com (mentioned by bossnanova) is good.

    However, I usually go to this site to quickly rip Google/YouTube vids:

    http://www.videodl.org/

    Be sure to change the file extension to “.FLV” after ripping.

    FLV is a container, not a format. Nocato mentions changing the extension to “.avi” to play it in Media Player Classic. This is a trick that works, but it is not proper - the file only plays in Media Player Classic because of its native support that can read the file header and 4cc (you can rename an “avi” file to “mpg” and it will play in Media Player Classic also - but that doesn’t mean that it’s an MPEG!!!).

    You can PROPERLY extract the video and audio data (avi and mp3) from the FLV with Moitah’s “FLV Extract” (free):

    http://moitah.net/#FLVExtract

    You can then mux/edit/convert with a tool like VirtualDub (free):

    http://virtualdub.org/

    There are lots of tools to convert to MPEG, but TMPGEnc is still one of the best. The latest version is available here (free MPEG-1 encoding):

    http://tmpgenc.net/

    and TMPGEnc beta 12a is available here (free MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding):

    http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27674

    Also, you do not need a special player for FLV vids. You can add system-wide support for FLV’s if you have a DirectShow decoder/splitter that handles the FLV1/FLV4 4cc’s, and if you have a codec for the h.263, h.264, and VP6 formats (the most common encoding formats for FLV).

    Get Gabest’s FLV splitter (free):

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=183318

    Get the latest build of ffdshow, which is excellent at decoding many video formats, not just FLV-related (free):

    http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941

    Or, just get the latest K-Lite Codec Pack, which includes Gabest’s FLV splitter and ffdshow (free):

    http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

    And, if you want one of the best media players (with native support for some formats), get Gabest’s Media Player Classic (free):

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358

    or VideoLAN’s VLC Media Player (free):

    http://www.videolan.org/

    I have K-Lite Codec Pack, which installs ffdshow, FLV splitter, and Media Player Classic. I play FLV’s with any media player on my computer - it’s awesome.

    Most of you will already know about these programs and tools, but at there’s no harm in repeating - it may help somebody.

18. O71G
    April 12th, 2007 | 15:45

    First thing is to play just about any kind of media file try using VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    Second I’ve used mediapirate for grabbing the videos with no problems with sounds sync http://www.mediapirate.org/

    Thirdly to convert them to a usable format I use either ImToo (not free) or mediaconverter http://www.mediaconverter.org/

    You shouldn’t need to convert them though as VLC pretty much covers a format and it free.

    I’m sure there are other but these just work perfectly for me.

    Thanks to rlslog for all the great scene release nfo, you rock man!!!!

19. Error !!!
    April 16th, 2007 | 13:33

    mhm…let see I download it and then..I try to work with it,but i don’t know.The video files don’t download.I download this programme now,so I just try do download from dailyvideo,but it doesn’t work i think.Maybe the error is in my PC or my connection for now.I’ll try again later today…but keepvid.com is great solution also!!!

20. Spirit
    April 19th, 2007 | 11:25

    Rather strange but my F-Secure told me that there was a trojan in this software.Deleted it right away !.

21. Straker
    June 18th, 2007 | 09:18

    Meh, I use the free plugin to grab videos, and the free program FLV Converter to convert .flv files to .mpg. Then I just use Windows Movie Maker to convert the mpgs to wmvs.

22. audiblebleeder
    March 24th, 2008 | 01:59

    I’ve tried several different programs… all of them work but the color changes. The people start to look blue…is there a way to fix it?

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