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YouTube Downloader - help needed

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:58 am
by wub
I've just installed a copy of YouTube Downloader onto my work machine so I can snaffle some samples off of YouTube to pass the time on conference calls.

I've already got the program loaded on my home PC, so have got it installed correctly and can download the YouTube videos as .flv files as per usual.

However, I'm unable to convert them videos to MP3 files as I'm getting an error message telling me I haven't got the right codecs.

Have had a quick Google and am having trouble trying to figure out what extra things I need to get, and where they need to go.


Anyone know anything about this?

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:02 am
by serox
download audacity and lame. this will do the job for you.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:02 am
by antics
I reccomend you get audacity (freeware) and then just record the output to your speakers, its much easier then downloading and converting etc...

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:07 am
by wub
Antics wrote:I reccomend you get audacity (freeware) and then just record the output to your speakers, its much easier then downloading and converting etc...


Ah, this brings me to the next issue - for some reason my company network blocks all YouTube videos over about 1m in length. So I can't open them and record via playback using Audacity.


YouTube Downloader gets around that as I can still drop in the video URL and it'll rip an FLV file for me.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:01 pm
by antics

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:08 pm
by wub


Doesn't even let me open my already d'loaded .FLV files.

Re: YouTube Downloader - help needed

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:43 pm
by strukture
Wub wrote:I've just installed a copy of YouTube Downloader onto my work machine so I can snaffle some samples off of YouTube to pass the time on conference calls.

I've already got the program loaded on my home PC, so have got it installed correctly and can download the YouTube videos as .flv files as per usual.

However, I'm unable to convert them videos to MP3 files as I'm getting an error message telling me I haven't got the right codecs.

Have had a quick Google and am having trouble trying to figure out what extra things I need to get, and where they need to go.


Anyone know anything about this?
fuck installing shit when u could just go here http://www.listentoyoutube.com/ or here http://www.vidtomp3.com/index.php

Re: YouTube Downloader - help needed

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:52 pm
by wub
strukture wrote:fuck installing shit when u could just go here http://www.listentoyoutube.com/
Update: Due to recent update in Youtube TOS, conversion from youtube has been disabled. We are working on adding features so you can download from other video websites along with other new tools to help you get mp3. Thanks


strukture wrote:or here http://www.vidtomp3.com/index.php
Only extracts at 64kbps

Re: YouTube Downloader - help needed

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:03 pm
by strukture
Wub wrote:
strukture wrote:fuck installing shit when u could just go here http://www.listentoyoutube.com/
Update: Due to recent update in Youtube TOS, conversion from youtube has been disabled. We are working on adding features so you can download from other video websites along with other new tools to help you get mp3. Thanks


strukture wrote:or here http://www.vidtomp3.com/index.php
Only extracts at 64kbps
well that sucks dude. there might be other sites that can do this tho.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:08 pm
by strukture
i googled flv to mp3 online converter and this site came up http://www.flv2mp3.com/ might be worth a shot.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:15 pm
by notch
I just use soundflower and record the output..

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:21 pm
by wub
strukture wrote:i googled flv to mp3 online converter and this site came up http://www.flv2mp3.com/ might be worth a shot.
The By Url option freezes both IE and FF at my end, and the By File Upload option just displays an error message


notch wrote:I just use soundflower and record the output..
This is Mac only? And requires the YouTube file to be playing on the machine?

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 6:40 pm
by higgzbozon
and again everyone is giving away programs and stuff.. how about copy-paste-link-download??


How..?

http://www.file2hd.com


Go to myspace, youtube whatever, copy the url and paste..
Rightclick save as... Done!

No converting bla... just donwload and play..

Have fun :wink:

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 7:15 am
by wub

Spot on fella, just what I was looking for :D


Ended up snaffling this off of that link - much appreciated 8)

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 7:21 pm
by strukture
Eops wrote:posted this up before but - hey I repeat myself

Go to a YouTube page
Type this line into your address field

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + swfArgs['video_id']+ "&fmt=18" + "&l=" + swfArgs['l'] + "&sk=" + swfArgs['sk'] + '&fmt_map' + swfArgs['fmt_map'] + '&t=' + swfArgs['t'];

That's it! To make it even simpler, just create a bookmark that contains that piece of code and whenever you want to download a movie, click your bookmark. Hey presto - you've got the video in a lovely MP4 format that allows for frame by frame scrubbing in QuickTime.
nice one bruv!!1