Downloading YouTube vids

[seemslikeadream]

I have a mac, could someone please explain to me how to download YouTube vids onto my computer? Thanks

[vanlose kid]

here you go.

http://www.downloadhelper.net/

works with firefox.

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[seemslikeadream]

here you go.

http://www.downloadhelper.net/

works with firefox.

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thanks so much, I was looking around and couldn't figure what to use. I hadn't seen that link, will be trying it tonight

[justdrew]

here you go.

http://www.downloadhelper.net/

works with firefox.

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thanks so much, I was looking around and couldn't figure what to use. I hadn't seen that link, will be trying it tonight

it works really good. there's an enhanced mode you can pay for, but it's basic functionality is fine.

be aware though the videos are in one of several 'flash' video formats and may or may not play with your default media player, in fact the downloaded files might not even be seen as such files, so you might not be able to just double click on them to play them. If you have trouble, get VLCmediaplayer from www.videolan.net, which I think has a mac version (it's opensource, cross platform) and you can use it's playlist and.or just drop the files on it's window to play them.

[Nordic]

Will it work with other non-youtube vids? Like from Vimeo for example?

[justdrew]

Will it work with other non-youtube vids? Like from Vimeo for example?

it's fairly good at handling video from a lot of different sources, the big two and lots otherwise. sometimes it can even catch video on like news sites. it has a very large list of sites it can download from

[Stephen Morgan]

The Mozilla add-on page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... oadhelper/

Seems to be the standard.

[seemslikeadream]

Thanks everyone, got the YouTube figured out

now another question please

I want to get these

http://www.kat.ph/origins-and-oracles-m ... 26201.html

but I do not understand torrents, I tried to figure it out but I don't understand how to get it or play it once I've downloaded it. I think I've downloaded but can't figure how to play.

I just type, that's all I really know about this computer stuff

[justdrew]

Thanks everyone, got the YouTube figured out

now another question please

I want to get these

http://www.kat.ph/origins-and-oracles-m ... 26201.html

but I do not understand torrents, I tried to figure it out but I don't understand how to get it or play it once I've downloaded it. I think I've downloaded but can't figure how to play.

I just type, that's all I really know about this computer stuff

oh boy, now you're asking for the serious stuff.

probably what you downloaded was the "torrent file" - it's job is to describe the files "in the torrent" so another program can actually download them from a cloud of other people seeding and leeching.

here's the program you'll want for actually using the torrent to start the download...
http://www.utorrent.com

you'll need free space on your drive for the actual media files, and I see it's a total of 9.55 GB which will be a fairly large and long download. also the files look to be CD images, split into multiple files via an archive program, in this case winrar. you can use the free 7zip to extract the CD (ISO) images from the archives. then dealing with the CD images will be the next issue. you could burn them for long term offline storage. you'll probably want the above linked VLCmedia player to watch them, which you could do off your hard drive and skip the CD burning.

here's a link to a site with that and other TSARION related torrents, where you may be able to find the same videos included in that torrent you reference, in a simpler form to deal with... be care what links you click on on sites like these. Torrents that shows thousands of seeders are typical links to commercial download sites and/or will lead to fake-anti-virus or other malware.
http://btjunkie.org/search?q=TSARION

there's a lot to learn to start dealing with torrents, eventually you may also need a good codec pack, but VLC can play most videos with it's built in codecs, but the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP ) is a very good one.

but getting into torrenting is usually technically illegal, due to most videos (or other stuff) being copyright controlled. so it's unlikely (very unlikely probably) but you could end up being one of those to get sued. it's a risk you should consider, and if I had kids/family I might choose to not know anything about it

it seems like the mass people-sueing is over, but on the other hand, the government may be strongarmed into doing something more serious at any time now.

another option:
vimeo allows longer videos much easier than youtube, so there's a lot of this kinda stuff there, that you don't have to watch in say 70 parts like on yotube, so see if you can find stuff here:
http://www.vimeo.com/search/videos/search:tsarion/0e652a6b
it may be much easier and its risk free.

if you still want to go the torrent route for something, maybe look for a less complicated torrent to start with. (most aren't CD images split into multiple archive files and are much easier to deal with for someone starting out)

[seemslikeadream]

Thanks justdrew, no no no torrents for me

[justdrew]

Thanks justdrew, no no no torrents for me

well there are sites for legal torrents
checkout
http://www.clearbits.net/
for instance, which has some nice looking publicly produced audio-books of some sweet old now-public-domain books among other things.