5 July 2006

Ripping video from YouTube

[ posted in Science & Technology ]

Information taken shamelessly from Methodshop.com and VideoHelp.com. The process is a little slow but effective when you have a video that you would rather burn to CD to watch on the television. Like the unaired pilot for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

  1. Load the page for the YouTube video you want to rip.
  2. Allow it to buffer completely. The player bar fills with a darker gray as the video is downloaded.
  3. The buffer will be a file with an FLV extension in your browser's cache directory. Probably somewhat large.
  4. Download and install the Riva FLV Encoder.
  5. Set the Input Video to the full path of the FLV file. Set the Output Directory and Ouput Video to the path and name of a new file with an AVI or MPG extension.
  6. Click FLV Encode and wait...
[ posted on 5 July 2006 at 11:07:47 PM ]
Comments

I've been doing something similar lately. I use VideoDownloader to grab the FLV https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ then SUPER (C) to convert it http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html It's much more powerful than FLV encoder.

Posted by: Alex at July 7, 2006 10:43 AM

Now wouldn't it be cool if YouTube (et al) RSS'ed these snippets and would allow you to download them in podcast format?

Y L B! They do have RSS feeds. There's half of the solution. Perhaps an RSS reader with an embedded FLV encoder?

Of course, once net neutrality is neutralized...

Posted by: Mason at July 10, 2006 09:47 PM

I finally tried Super (c)--yes, that's apparently its name. Clunky interface and clunky download page, but it does have many more features than FLV. Nice option. Thanks.

Posted by: sstrader at July 11, 2006 12:44 AM

http://www.erightsoft.com/S5E01.html

this is the correct download link.

Posted by: craphounder at September 25, 2006 07:11 AM
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