Download YouTube video and convert to AVI
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:28 am
You need:
Firefox
UnPlug
Dr DivX
All are free and opensource.
Step 1.
Install UnPlug in the Firefox browser
Scroll down the page and find the "Install Now" link and click on it. Restart FireFox.
Step 2.
Now go to YouTube.
From the FireFox "Tools" menu, select "UnPlug" and you should be redirected to the UnPlug page where the download link for the video is.
You want the one where the type is "Flash Video Data".Click on the "Save" image and save as anythingyoulike.flv (the .flv is important).
Step 3.
Download and install Dr. DivX
Google for the following DLL files:
drffmpeg.dll and avdsp.dll
Unzip and put them in your Dr. DivX directory (default: c:\Program Files\DivX\DR. DivX 2.0 OSS\)
Step 4.
Start Dr DivX
Click on the "Open" button next to the "Input file(s)" box and load in your FLV file.
Simply select one of the "DivX Profiles" and then press "Encode".
Press the "Resume" button to start the encoding.
You can change the ".divx" file to ".avi" to make it into an AVI file if you want. If you cannot see the file extension, you can enable it in Windows by going into
Tools > Folder Options > View
and then deselecting the "Hide extension for known file types" option".
For Google video all you have to do is to download and rename the extension from .gvi to .avi
You cannot use this method for Metacafe video - if you ask nicely I might tell you but it's a real balls ache to do.
Firefox
UnPlug
Dr DivX
All are free and opensource.
Step 1.
Install UnPlug in the Firefox browser
Scroll down the page and find the "Install Now" link and click on it. Restart FireFox.
Step 2.
Now go to YouTube.
From the FireFox "Tools" menu, select "UnPlug" and you should be redirected to the UnPlug page where the download link for the video is.
You want the one where the type is "Flash Video Data".Click on the "Save" image and save as anythingyoulike.flv (the .flv is important).
Step 3.
Download and install Dr. DivX
Google for the following DLL files:
drffmpeg.dll and avdsp.dll
Unzip and put them in your Dr. DivX directory (default: c:\Program Files\DivX\DR. DivX 2.0 OSS\)
Step 4.
Start Dr DivX
Click on the "Open" button next to the "Input file(s)" box and load in your FLV file.
Simply select one of the "DivX Profiles" and then press "Encode".
Press the "Resume" button to start the encoding.
You can change the ".divx" file to ".avi" to make it into an AVI file if you want. If you cannot see the file extension, you can enable it in Windows by going into
Tools > Folder Options > View
and then deselecting the "Hide extension for known file types" option".
For Google video all you have to do is to download and rename the extension from .gvi to .avi
You cannot use this method for Metacafe video - if you ask nicely I might tell you but it's a real balls ache to do.