You tube video clips

[Smithy]

do any of you IT people know of any free software that's available on the net to download, so that i can watch these clips without having to log on and go to the site?

Also a decent way of downloading the clips in the first place would be a good idea?

Thanks
Smithy

[Sam Slater]

Do you browse with Firefox 2?

If so they have an addon called 'VideoDownloader2' which is exactly what you're looking for. Never tries with IE.

[Jacques]

Yup or there are various Greasemonkey scripts that dynamically add a download link to the page.

Plus there is Keepvid

And to search there is clipblast

[Cactus Jack]

You'll need to download FLVplayer to watch them, though.

Find it via Google.

[mart]

There's a neat free one here


Mart

[Smithy]

thanks for all the advice! much appreciated!

[Ace]

Tools -

SUPER
and a DVD authoring and burning software like Tmpgenc DVD Author or NeroVision or Ulead DVD Workshop.

Guide -
Download video with
1. Copy the link(http url) from the page with the Video
2. Paste the link into input box and hit download and waaaaaait
3. Right Click on Download Link and select Save Target As

Convert with SUPER -
1. Right click in SUPER to open the file you just downloaded, Add Multimedia File(s)
2. Select vob DVD Compliant under Select the Output Container
3. Set Video Scale Size, 720x480 for NTSC or 720x576 for PAL
4. Set Aspect to 4:3
5. Set frame/sec, 29.97 for NTSC or 25 for PAL
6. Encode
( If you want smaller output file size lower the video and audio Bitrate, you can calculate the bitrate and output file size using a bitrate calculator like )

Author and Burn -
Add the DVD VOB file in for example Tmpgenc DVD Author or NeroVision or Ulead DVD Workshop and author and burn it to a DVD.


Done.