techie questions

[lobelia321]

1. How do I download clips from youtube?

2. How do I download a DVD onto my iBook?

Oh, clever and smart LJ Friends with wizardish techie powers: can you help?

:-)

Comments

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

For the YouTube question:

You can download via www.keepvid.com

Further information here (http://thepouncer.livejournal.com/360515.html).

No idea about the DVD question, sadly.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[abbylee]

1) A bunch of articles/options

2) Handbrake and/or Mac The Ripper (I haven't used either myself as I'm macless, but those are the ones I hear recced all the time.)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I found Handbrake in my Applications and remember downloading it sometime but I'd forgotten what it was for!! Duh.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Personally, I use the vdownloader for youtube as it lets you convert the videos to avi or mpeg in the process. Because those flv things are a bit inconvenient. I'm not sure if it works with mac though.

And I have no clue about the second question. Sorry.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I downloaded vdownloader last night, and tried again just now with your link but I have no idea what to do next. When I try to open the application, it doesn't do anything. When I go to youtube, no new menu or pop-up appears. Once downloaded, what do you actually *do*? Could you talk me through what you do on your PC? And then I could try it on mine or at least compare.

Thank you!!

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Did I mention that it only works with IE. *scrolls up* No, I didn't. Sorry! *headdesks* So yes, you open youtube on the internet exploder, choose a vid and then you copy the link into the vdownloader and press 'download'. Then a window should pop up asking you in what format you want to download. Choose and press okay. Then it should ask you where you want to save it to on the harddrive. Do that and press okay again. And it should work. Oh, and don't get confused. First, it downloads and then it converts. When the vdownloader is finished, a tiny wondow will pop up saying 'process finished' or something like that.

As I do realise now that I download like crazy, it tends to loose hold of youtube. Then it either won't let me get past the 'choose how you want to download it' or it'll say something like 'no host there' or some such nonsense. I simply close and open it again and mostly it works. Some vids it won't let me download. *grumbles*

Hope I could help?

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

i use this nifty link. and you can view the resulting flv file best with the marvellous vlc. (you will need to rename the downloaded file as "something.flv" first).

don't watch many dvds and have never tried to rip one to disk, sorry.

b.x :)

[scarymime.livejournal.com]

i use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390 this add-on on firefox, it downloads as .flv file, but use a video converter like Riva or Super to convert it to MPG or AVI :)