5 July 2006

Ripping video from YouTube

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 by sstrader on 5 July 2006 at 11:07:47 PM in Home Network & Gadgets ]