Category: Geeks r Us
hay, i want to save utube videos....can i? is there a software? if so, can ya recommend one for me? thanks,gizzy
oh, there is one way. search google for "download youtube video downloader". In the results, you will get a software . its quite helpfull! or, you can search the same on www.download.com. thanks.
This site has a section especially reserved for Youtube software. They have a youtube to mp3 converter so you don't take up too much space on your computer, a Youtube downloader which downloads the actual video, and a Youtube Downloader that will download the video in formats that are compatible with IPod and PSP.
Check it out:
I actually tried that mp3 converter but I could never get it to work properly. It would get to a certain point in the video and then say it was finished when it clearly wasn't. Then I more often than not couldn't find the mp3 despite specifying a location to download it to, and on the rare occasions when I could the file wasn't complete despite the program telling me it had finished. So on the rare occasion when I want audio from a YouTube video I use Klango.
To the poster above me, I had that same problem, I solved it by updating and I haven't had that problem since.
Maybe I am mis-understanding your question except
One way to save utube videos, as it were
would be to open up a utube account,
Then just click on "save"
All videos then that you especially enjoy
are then located in one location.
I use that software, and while it isn't too accessible with JAWS, it's accessible enough.
Poster 6, I believe he means to save them locally, such as on his harddrive.
i think you should try to search in google for "download youtube videos" , and you can get many ways for this. that's not a difficult task!
I just favorite the youtube vids I want to keep. No need to store them locally. If I wanted a local copy of a vid, I would visit the mobile site, find the vid's page, and save the 'video.3gp' with a useful name.
Yes but that's not truly portable. That is, you can't put it in a player or save it to another computer. I know that there are certain websites where you type in the url of a video and it downloads it in various formats but some of the sites no longer work. I have to relocate the one that I found about a month ago and see if it's still functional. Klango works on many videos but not all. Still, it's worth having and using, not just for that, but for it's many other features and the community.
Recall the option of saving "video.3gp", from the mobile site, as another option. You can send that file anywhere you like. Youtube, itself, has a community; give it a look sometime.
Opa! Can I save a video on the mobile site and then upload that file back to youtube? I'm asking this incase I disable my account or start another one. I'll need to somehow download all of the videos that I put up and then reupload them. Also, what is the mobile site for Youtube and is it easier to use with a screenreader like the mobile one for Facebook?
thank you me fellow zoners for responding. yes, i would like to save them to my hard drive. then convert them so i can place them on my ipod or victor. ....will look into both sites. i did google. i did researched several programs. i was notable to use them succesfuly. cheers. gizzy
I tried updating to the latest version of that converter and it did exactly the same thing. Needless to say I didn't bother messing with it after that. What I'm looking for now, in fact, is actually a reasonably accessible way to record my own videos to upload to YouTube. I want to do what Tubers refer to as a Let's Play for some of the audio games we have. For those who don't know, a Let's Play is where a person takes a game they enjoy and literally plays it through from beginning to end for others to see. These usually end up being several and in many cases many episodes long due to the 15-minute time limit on YouTube videos, but some can be quite interesting. I thought of doing one for GMA's Shades of Doom since that's always been one of my favorites. True there'd be no actual graphics but I'd make a real effort to make the videos as interesting as possible for any sighted viewers.
I'd suggest Debut Video Capture Software.
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html
It's very accessible and is what I use. If you don't have a camera, there is a program for that too called Virtual Camera. Basically, you can use a still picture as a video. Debut let's you record from screen but I don't really know anything about that. If your ram is low it may be sluggish, but other than that, it really is a nice piece of software. Oh, I thought the limit for Youtube bideos was ten minutes. Have they changed that? *smile*
Yeah they did. It's fairly recent. I'll have o try and check out this software. ANd I'd haveto record from the screen most likely. I just wish Vista would still allow you to record through the sound card since that's the only sure-fire way I know of to get the game in stereo.
Well the software looks interesting. I just hope it works with Window-Eyes. Of course I will have towait to buy it since even with the discount it's fifty bucks and I don't have that at the moment. So I'll have to pay the full price of eighty later. It does sound like it might be what I need though...
I'm not sure which software you mean. Debut is free and doesn't even require registration. Maybe, they have a newer version out or something but the old one is still finable. Perhaps, it's down the page that I gave to you.
Well I know they have a Pro version. That could be what I found.
Ok so I downloaded and installed it and selected Screen Capture as my main method of recording. What I'm now trying to figure out is if it's possible to then record audio at the same time and if so how to do it.
The mobile youtube is m.youtube.com. For each video, you get a page, with 'watch video' as one of the links. On my box, it opens an external player, instead of the embedded things. I think you'll find the mobile site screen-reader-friendly, though it may not do everything the full site does.
I like using the software from www.dvdvideosoft.com myself.
Not all are accessible, but they do the job, at least most of the time.
Yes, you could definitely record sound. I usually use the internal microphone in my computer, but since you're interested in recording a game and since you said that you can't record from the sound card, it might be a good iddea to buy a patch cord for a few dollars and use that. Plug one end into the headphone jack and one into the microphone jack. I think you then have to select record from line-in, or if not, then go to the control pannel and, under audio, check one of the boxes. I'm not sure which one, but you'll know because you'll wind up recording your screenreader instead of things from your microphone.
And then I assume plug in the USB mike to record my voice? That's te whole thing right there. And while I did make a successfull recording either my wireless network was extremely slow or the video wasn't an ideal format, but it took forever to upload the video, which didn't even upload completely anyway due to "an unknown error." I might try again later today but I don't know. I do know the video was less than fifteen minutes long since I told Debut to limit recording time to fifteen minutes.
I can't help you with usb stuff. But if you use the patch cord, then the usb microphone won't work, since you've changed the input i.e. you didn't tell Windows to use usb as your input. Anyway, the video cutting of fis not a Debut problem. It's a Youtube problem and I've even had it happen when using the Mac. I have no idea why it does that and I've never been able to get it to upload a video that it originally cut. It always stopped. The only way that I've found around this is to make a new video. I wish that there was a Youtube alternative and that it was as popular.
Well that would be a problem since the only microphone I have is a USB one, albeit a fairly good quality one. I did some fairly extensive research on it before I bought it. And yeah, I may remake the video as a wmv format instead of .avi and see how it works.
Youtube uploads can be slow. The smaller you can make them, the better off you'll be. Try a compressed format like 'm4v', nstead of a big format like '.mov'.
Hmmm. I'll look into that.