On 18/06/2009, at 2:55 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Is it possible to save video viewed from things like YouTube? I
suspect that Safari holds it in cache or similar?
Severin
Hi Severin,
When using Safari, there's an easy way to download YouTube videos.
Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows
the Activity window.
If you're also loading other sites, you'll see a list of them: scroll
until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details
about what is being loaded.
You will certainly notice an element whose size is over 0.5MB (most of
the time, over 5MB). Double-click on it (even if it is still loading),
and Safari will download it. When the download is over, navigate to
the file in the Finder (which will probably be called get_video) and
add the extension .flv to its name. Now you can play it with VLC or
with QuickTime (only if you have Perian installed).
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.5.7
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