Question about YouTube.com

Ian911299 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:01 am

http://www.youtube.com/

Does anybody know how to save the videos you find from that site to your computer?

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:14 am

I haven't tried this, but here's what you could do in Firefox:

*Right-click on the page that has the full video.

*Select "View Page Info".

*Go to the Media tab & click Type to sort the files on that page by type.

*Scroll down until you find the video, then select Save As & save it!

Susan · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:15 am

Have you tried the popular search engine Google?

Snailmail · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:16 am

Susan wrote:

Have you tried the popular search engine Google?

Actually, what you just posted makes no sense. Google provides websites, not information!

Code J · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:19 am

Well, sometimes you can find useful answers from results Google gives you. I know I've found some good crap before.

Also, this belongs in the HelpDesk.

Susan · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:23 am

Snailmail wrote:

Susan wrote:

Have you tried the popular search engine Google?

Actually, what you just posted makes no sense. Google provides websites, not information!

Oh ya?

Ian911299 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:46 am

Susan wrote:

Snailmail wrote:

Susan wrote:

Have you tried the popular search engine Google?

Actually, what you just posted makes no sense. Google provides websites, not information!

Oh ya?

Okay, I clicked on that link, and it says the first step for saving Youtube videos is to download Greasemonkey. I saved the Greasemonkey thing to my computer, but the extension is an "xpi", which my computer doens't recognize, so I can't do anything with it.

How do I get my computer to recognize "xpi" files?

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And by the way...

Code J wrote:

Well, sometimes you can find useful answers from results Google gives you. I know I've found some good crap before.

Also, this belongs in the HelpDesk.

No it doesn't! The HelpDesk description says "Ask questions about how to use the wiki." This isn't wiki-related.

Code J · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:50 am

Well, now it pretty much serves all purposes. That description is from a while ago.

Ian911299 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:54 am

Oh. Okay.

Well I have no problem with an admin moving this topic.

breadtangle o' pizza · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:59 am

Ian911299 wrote:

Okay, I clicked on that link, and it says the first step for saving Youtube videos is to download Greasemonkey. I saved the Greasemonkey thing to my computer, but the extension is an "xpi", which my computer doens't recognize, so I can't do anything with it.

How do I get my computer to recognize "xpi" files?

Are you using Firefox?

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:17 am

Didn't anybody see my first reply?

Toast paint.

breadtangle o' pizza · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:25 am

Actually, that wouldn't work. YouTube loads a small Flash file that plays the video from their servers, rather than loading the video itself. So, you'd get a nice, useless video player.

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:26 am

Oh. Ignore me, then.

Ian911299 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:27 pm

breadtangle o' pizza wrote:

Ian911299 wrote:

Okay, I clicked on that link, and it says the first step for saving Youtube videos is to download Greasemonkey. I saved the Greasemonkey thing to my computer, but the extension is an "xpi", which my computer doens't recognize, so I can't do anything with it.

How do I get my computer to recognize "xpi" files?

Are you using Firefox?

Okay, I opened the Greasemonkey thing up in Firefox, and it said that it was updating, then it said that it would install the next time Firefox restarted. So I quit Firefox, restarted my entire computer, then opened Firefox again, but no announcements came up saying that Greasemonkey had been successfully installed. My Firefox Internet page doesn't look any different either.

Is Greasemonkey already installed and I don't know it? Or am I doing something wrong?

Ian911299 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:24 pm

Oh! Wait a minute! I just noticed a little monkey icon in the bottom right hand corner.

Okay, I'll try to follow the rest of the procedure on my own from here. I'll ask if I run into any more problems.

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:53 pm

The Greasemonkey thing isn't necessary. Just go to KeepVid and enter the URL of the YouTube page. The files are in FLV (Flash Video) format, which means your usual media player won't play them. Of course, the solution is written in the very first question of the KeepVid FAQ:

KeepVid wrote:

How do I play videos I downloaded from YouTube?

First make sure the extension is .flv
Use VLC Player or FLV Player to open the file.

Ian911299 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:25 am

Okay, I have FLV player installed on my computer, and I can view my desired videos on the player. Is there any way to make the playing window bigger? It's a little small.

Dactyl · **Posted:** Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:44 am

OK, this is totally off-topic, but what does your sig mean?

Code J · **Posted:** Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:55 am

They are the mysterious numbers from the show LOST.

Ian911299 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:49 am

Indeed they are.

Anyways, so does anyone know how to make the FLV player screen bigger?

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:07 am

Dactyl wrote:

OK, this is totally off-topic, but what does your sig mean?

Have you tried The Popular Search Engine Google?

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