Download youtube videos

[Speaker]

http://www.videodownloader.info/

 

[x42bn6]

I use VideoDownloader for Firefox - it can also download from places like DailyMotion.*

 

[Dragnskull]

wow, awsome

 

[Andrew]

I never knew that was possible. :O

 

[Ntrik_]

now i can download this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wq2WAH-Qk&mode=related&search=

 

[x42bn6]

You'll need an FLV player to play videos downloaded by VideoDownloader, though.*

 

[Wing Zero]

FLV is recommended. VCL also works but no status bar thing. and converting is sometimes a pain

 

[The Sweet Love]

Thank you! I've been wanting to download a few videos I can't find anywhere else online.

 

[Hitsua]

Doesn't this border on copyright infringement.

 

[x42bn6]

It depends on how you use it, of course.*

 

[Hitsua]

No, it really doesn't. There is no download option on YouTube for a reason.

 

[concrete_sox]

exactly what hitsua said

 

[x42bn6]

No, it really doesn't. There is no download option on YouTube for a reason.

Or it could be that:

1) It is embedded into a Flash object so that people don't have to worry about any codec or video playing issues like, "You don't have Quicktime, click here to download it!"
2) It is embedded into a Flash object so YouTube can compress the video into its own embedded codec.
3) They saw potentially bad ideas behind possibly using embedded AVIs or MPGs, because those could contain malicious code.

YouTube states that:

No, currently you can't download our videos to your computer. YouTube's video player is designed to be used within your browser as an Internet experience. As an alternative to downloading, you can temporarily save videos to watch later by adding them to your QuickList. If you'd like to save them more permanently, login and click "Save to Favorites" under the videos you'd like to keep.​

This is quite open to interpretation. It does not say it is illegal to download videos to your computer (it is cached, anyway, so it would be rather stupid to say it can't be saved on your computer, when it actually is anyway). It merely says the video player is browser-only.

As far as I know, if you put something up for browsing online, you are downloading it anyway.*

 

[Clearcast]

You could use that.. Or, you can use wGet, right click on your browser window, go to view page source, copy the directory of the item you're after, open CMD, punch in "wget <directory>" and download whatever the damn hell your ip address is authorised to read, regardless of if it's allowed to copy or not.

But of course, it's illegal, so do use it..

Sorry, i mean "don't".

 

[x42bn6]

Like I said, when you view anything on the Internet, you are downloading it anyway, making the point moot.

wget is useful for this purpose, especially for Linux lovers.*

 

[Hitsua]

It isn't illegal to download "videos" off of YouTube, but it is illegal to download "copyrighted videos" off of anything without permission from the owner, which most of those do not have in the first place.

 

[x42bn6]

Of course not, but it is a little stupid if each user went round trying to check the copyright status of the video they were going to look at before confirming it was valid to download.

The copyright of the video depends on the uploader, not the downloader. You aren't supposed to upload content that is copyrighted onto YouTube, but the watchers don't necessarily know that the content is copyrighted. Plus, not all videos on YouTube are illegal.

Like I've said, when you view a YouTube video, it is essentially downloaded to your computer anyway, making the argument that it is illegal moot.

On YouTube's Terms and Conditions, it says:

If you download or print a copy of the Content for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein.​

http://www.youtube.com/t/terms

This means that if you download or copy a video from YouTube for personal use, it is allowed as long as the copyright is retained and any copyright notices about the users, people or content are retained.

Then there's this:

You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security related features of the YouTube Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on use of the YouTube Website or the Content therein.​

Is it a security-related feature that YouTube does not provide downloading of its videos? Is downloading the video and saving it to an FLV circumventing the security features of YouTube? It depends on the nature of the software, but unless it injects some sort of feature into YouTube (perhaps using various Flash buffer overflow exploits), saving the Flash file and extracting its contents is not exploiting any security. It may be true that Flash is used to increase security of its videos (I think that video files may have more exploits than Flash applets) but I have yet to see any evidence that these hacks are breaking YouTube to get the video.

Even then, consumers may be exempt from action because they may not know how the software works. I'm no lawyer, but I do feel that if a user is unaware that by putting stuff into that text box and hitting a button is making YouTube less secure, then they are protected somewhat.

So in conclusion, as long as you keep the copy personal, you are fine. But if the copy is distributed, it is not. But that's not the fault of the extractor.*

 

[Speaker]

so..
..this was completely unnecessary..

 

[x42bn6]

Not really, all posts can always be responded to.*