How to save youtube videos (and upload them elsewhere)

[ChesireKat]

How to save youtube videos (and upload them elsewhere)

After David Zucker's political ad was flagged on youtube.com, some of you asked how to download youtube videos to watch elsewhere. These are instructions for doing so. If you know an easier or more direct method, please post.

1) Copy the url from the youtube page. (I searched for freerepublic to find a worthy sample)

2) Go to http://keepvid.com and paste the youtube url in the space provided

3) Save file by clicking download (part A), then clicking "download link" (part B). Save it

as an .flv extension

4) Download cinemaforge (It's free software you can find online) or similar software.

5) With cinemaforge, convert .flv file to something playable for video sharing websites (wmv, mpeg, etc)

6) Click encode. Your new video is now the proper format for video sharing sites.

7) Upload to another website. (zippyvideos, tinypic, mediamax)

[NonValueAdded]

Reference bump

[Interesting Times]

Bookmarked. Thanks...

[AmericanInTokyo]

Aha! That'll show them.

It is so stupid to censor something on the internet, it only calls even more attention to it.

You Tube thinks they are being 'clever' by placing the Zucker add off limits as an item with 'questionable content'. Well, we'll just GO AROUND THEM, just like we did the MSM. Liberals cannot stop it. They should know better.

[Lando Lincoln]

Thank You

[perfect stranger]

ping

[onyx]

Bookmarked --- and thanks!

[zook]

bump

[be4everfree]

Bookmarked

Thanks

[BigSkyFreeper]

Bookmarked. Thanks! This will be cool as I've wondered how to download YouTube videos.

[KoRn]

Awesome reference! I have always went through a tedious, elaborate process to get flash format videos saved for later viewing. This is very easy!

[MarMema]

Thanks very much. On my FR profile is my favorite You Tube video - Georgian Legend. Come and see it!

[rockrr]

Likewise bookmarked.

BTW: I searched around and found a little freeware player for FLV files. It can be D/L'ed here: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated

Let's you play the stuff you've "liberated" from you tube!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Useful information. Much appreciated.

[swmobuffalo]

Firefox has an extension to do this with. I've found that it doesn't always work.

[highball]

Thanks!

[Sloth]

Helpful post!

[One-Four-Five]

I'd love to be wrong on this, but it seems to me that most people (if not most Freepers) will use this in ways that may very well constitute copyright infringement.

Then again, since GoogTube apparently just cut deals with major content owners...maybe not. But it looks like the sort of file-sharing to me that most would consider to be illegal.

[BlessedBeGod]

Thank you! Great instructions and screen shots.

Bookmarked!

[jdontom]

bump...and Thanks

[Chena]

I love Kats. ;) bttt

[CincinnatiKid]

Ping

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[CincinnatiKid]

Ping

[KoRn]

Just tried it. Works great!

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[Always A Marine]

Bump to read when normal brain function resumes. Thank you, sir...

[monkapotamus]

Cool thank you!

[octobersky]

Thanks.

[lesser_satan]

Cool. VERY useful info, thanks!!!

[oolatec]

Or you could use the VideoDownloader extension in FireFox... :)

[rwfromkansas]

You can see this on hotair.com, a site that doesn't have all the insane restrictions and thinks that YouTube does.

[rwfromkansas]

What a dumb comment.

A little clip of a TV show is not copyright infrigement, and saving it to your HD isn't either.

[youthgonewild]

Why is everyone here acting as if YouTube is the only video hosting site in the world? You could put it on Metacafe, Photobucket, Google video (maybe) or even MySpace!

[Nachum]

useful

[Sundog]

Thank you for the instructions on saving a video from youtube

[One-Four-Five]

Dumb? Sorry you think so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Tube#Copyright_infringement

Please don't corner me into actually having to take an RIAA-like stance merely for the sake of this discussion. I thought conservatives were supposed to have respect for the law. Downloading copyrighted content without authorization is against the law, and a 'little clip of a TV show' may very well constitute copyright infringement.

I didn't say that was definitely the case, and I chose my words carefully for a reason. Then there's the issue of whether or not a copyright holder cares enough to wish to prohibit it from being available on such a venue. Quite a few do, and, when they complain, the video is taken down.

Saving it to your HD doesn't make it not akin to illegal file-sharing merely because you say so.

[cynwoody]

Then there's the issue of whether or not a copyright holder cares enough to wish to prohibit it from being available on such a venue. Quite a few do, and, when they complain, the video is taken down.

Saving it to your HD doesn't make it not akin to illegal file-sharing merely because you say so.

In the examples you cite, merely viewing the content is copyright infringement. It's not clear that saving it to disk adds to the infringement (unless you then subsequently sell it or share it, of course).

On the other hand, if the online content is legal to view, then saving it on your disk is simply fair use (again, unless you publish the saved content to others without permission).

[Justice4Reds]

YouTube is just wrong. I refuse to support the liberals at Google.

Buy Red!

[dcrider182]

Reference Bump.
Thanks

[packrat35]

Thanks a bunch

[Left2Right]

Thanks!

[One-Four-Five]

Well, like I said, I don't want to find myself taking an RIAA stance. But I thought illegal downloading was supposed to be wrong. Why? Because it's copyright infringement.

Things have changed lately, of course, but it strikes me that promoting software that is likely to be used to infringe the copyrights of others without at least mentioning this is irresponsible. That said, I'm not the copyright police, believe me.

And I'm not sure that merely viewing the content could possibly constitute the infringement, but then I don't think this sort of thing has found its way to a court of law. Seems to me it's the uploading that's the actual infringement here. Beyond that, it gets kinda theoretical & since Google acquired this site it would make sense that their due diligence produced a result where infringement will not be a large factor.

Nevertheless, if content is still being pulled, then someone owns it & doesn't want it up there. To me, it doesn't make sense that we would condemn illegal file-sharing, but we're all for this...and for pointing this out someone wants to call me names? Gee, I guess I'll just have to get over it.

Either you choose to obey the law, or you don't. In this case, the law may be murky, since it hasn't yet caught up to technology. I feel that the idea that doing a little research to make sure one is in fact not breaking the law isn't too much to ask to mention in a thread like this.

[Dstorm]

Ref bump

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent!
Bookmarked and BUMP for great freeping.

[MonroeDNA]

Bookmarked, and thanks.

[politicket]

PINGAROO!

[DeweyCA]

If you upload videos to Veoh, from YouTube, you can then download videos from Veoh onto your own computer (using the Veoh software), so that you never have to worry about losing them from a site.

[beckett]

CinemaForge has no uninstall.

[rwfromkansas]

You are an RIAA Nazi.

Where do the founders say they believed this restrictive copyright system was their intent? Only useful arts and sciences are subject to copyright.

I frankly don't believe Dancing with the Stars qualifies by that standard.

Copyright infringement is wrong. But, posting a 2-minute clip out of a 30-minute show like often goes on at You-Tube is clearly within fair use limits.