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Mandy



Joined: 07 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:50 pm    Post subject: Using Keepvid Reply with quote

Has anyone used Keepvid to capture YouTube etc. ?

I came across it on http://digitalliving.cnet.co.uk/insidersecrets/0,39030287,49282714,00.htm
and a search on Couchtripper for "Keepvid" found no postings.
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Joined: 25 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use the Real Player downloader - I've not found much that I couldn't hoik out.
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nekokate



Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Location: West Yorkshire, UK

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The thing with KeepVid is that all it does is pluck the file out of your cache - and you can do that yourself manually, so it's useful but somewhat unnecessary.

I quite like the "YouTube Downloader" application by FDR Labs. I think there was a post here about it a while back... The cool thing about that is you can select what format you want to download in, ie. mpg, avi, wmv etc...
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Mandy



Joined: 07 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks.

FYI, I looked in the firefox cache [type about:cache in FF] but didn't see the youtube .flv file. I also looked in the cache of IE (file location : Tools > Internet Options > Settings) and no sign of a .flv or other large file (even whilst viewing youtube).

FYI, there seems to be an update of real player :
http://uk.real.com/player/more
"Download Web videos with just one click"
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nekokate



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The flv files in your cache generally won't have a file extension, so they won't be recognisable as flv files. They'll just be called something like "get_video?video_id=********" with no dot flv at the end. Once you copy/paste them from out of the cache, you need to rename them with the flv extension, and then they become usable.
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Mandy



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks Kate
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