Thank you Ronni, That is the exact process I was using to the 'letter'. So maybe BigPond is just being clever, note the partial address I included originally. That has never come up before. I will try the download website for now.
Brian Sent from my iPhone On 26/06/2011, at 7:13, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Unless this is a Bigpond issue. > If you're using Safari, 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 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 havePerian > installed). > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 26/06/2011, at 3:09 AM, Dark1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi Brian. >> >> Pretty sure this has been discussed before in terms of an App that can do >> it. Not sure if it can be reliably done from just in safari. Check the >> archives. >> >> Regards >> Ruben >> >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> When looking at a YouTube video: >>> >>> I used to look in, Activity in Safari, to find a YouTube file as it >>> downloaded to the player, >>> double click and it would open a blank tab & download the file to Download, >>> - now a Telstra page opens (http://o-o.preferred.telstra-mel1.v......) in a >>> new tab and there is no download file to save. >>> >>> Has something changed recently? Yes I am with BigPond (and have recently >>> upgraded to their 100gb package,) though I didn't think they could >>> influence my requests as far as the download process went. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
