05-30-2009, 03:48 PM
You can also install RealPlayer (free) on your machine. It's VERY handy for YouTube (though it also
doesn't discriminate, and doesn't know an ad from a video you want -- but that's not a big deal).
When you goto places like YouTube, the "RealPlayer Downloader" will open (or you can open it), and it
saves the streams --- and asks you by virtue of a list, if you want to save them. If you do, they are
stored in your User/Movies/RealPlayer/ folder -- and are there to re-encode with whatever or just move
as you wish, as .FLV files.
I use QT and Perian to play them, but I always keep flvThing handy, also "SWF & Flash Player" as well as
VLC .9.9.9a --- and between that, there is virtually nothing that can't be opened.
QT will let you resize them and re-encode them if you have QT Pro. VLC apparently adds, as does Perian,
a host of CODECS that other apps can use as well.
doesn't discriminate, and doesn't know an ad from a video you want -- but that's not a big deal).
When you goto places like YouTube, the "RealPlayer Downloader" will open (or you can open it), and it
saves the streams --- and asks you by virtue of a list, if you want to save them. If you do, they are
stored in your User/Movies/RealPlayer/ folder -- and are there to re-encode with whatever or just move
as you wish, as .FLV files.
I use QT and Perian to play them, but I always keep flvThing handy, also "SWF & Flash Player" as well as
VLC .9.9.9a --- and between that, there is virtually nothing that can't be opened.
QT will let you resize them and re-encode them if you have QT Pro. VLC apparently adds, as does Perian,
a host of CODECS that other apps can use as well.