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How to Download YouTube Video to Your Computer

by Marsha on November 23, 2008

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YouTube and similar video sharing web sites have indulged us with tons of free videos from all over the internet. Although YouTube doesn’t give us the clue to download the videos, I’m sure most of you have already known that it’s pretty easy to download YouTube video right to your hard drive. There are a number of tools that will help us saving Youtube videos for playback on your desktop, iphone, PSP, or your DVD player.

Using Firefox Add-ons

If you’re Firefox user, which I think this is the simplest way. All you need to do is installing the Download Helper add-on. Not just videos from YouTube, the Download helper will grab just about any media files from any source and save it to your machine. Video Downloader is another firefox add-on that can grab video form YouTube, although some users reported that the latest YouTube site update seems to be interfering with the video download.

Using Video Downloader Applications

Not a Firefox user? It’s Ok. Where there is demand there will be supply… right? You can try out My Video Downloader, With this handy program you can download video from popular video sharing sites such as YouTube, MySpace, DailyMotion, iFilm, and Metacafe. The videos downloaded from these sites are flash video files or FLV files. If you don’t want to watch your video in a FLV player on your computer you will want to convert the file to a different format. You will be able to encode the files to iPhone, iPod, PSP, Zune, DVD, VCD, SVCD, AVI – XviD, MP3, 3gp, Flash (swf) and Quicktime. If you satisfied with the trial version, you can buy it for $24.99. [click to continue…]

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Download Youtube Videos with TechCrunch’s Tool

by Marsha on November 22, 2008

YouTube is one of the largest is a video sharing website together with metacafe, Break, and Google video. Video that appears generally can only be viewed through, not for downloading. The video files are packed in a flash video (FLV) format. Now, what if you want to download those videos in your hard drive so you can edit or just to watch them offline

If you search google, you’ll find out that there are tons of tools to download video from video sharing service. There also several methods you can try to get the videos, from browser plugins, applications, to special web pages dedicated to download videos from Youtube. But there’s no guarantee that they’re all working, since Youtube and similar video sharing websites constantly changing the way they stream the videos.

One fast and simple solution to download Youtube video is by using Youtube video download tool from TechCrunch.

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To download a video to your computer, find the Youtube video that you wish to watch of course, for example Jason Mraz – I’m Yours – Hard Rock Calling 2008. Next, enter the YouTube URL for the video, in this case copy paste ‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryentN-MyLE’ in the box, click get video and wait while it’s being download, use VLC or another compatible player to view it. And you can watch Jazon Mraz concert on your desktop right away.

Note that, all videos will be downloaded in flv format – Use VLC, FLV player, Media Player Classic or other compatible player to view it.

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Hack YouTube to get HD video playback

by Marsha on November 22, 2008

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YouTube has long been anticipated to release high definition video playback, and they’re now starting to test out real HD quality videos, The new format could be a big jump for YouTube, as the video size is similar to H.264 encoded mp4 files in the iTunes Store which size is over 80MB.

The new playback looks clean and professional in the widescreen format (1280×720) and seems like real HD 720p video. Formerly YouTube’s high quality video maximum resolution was at 480×360, to do so, viewers must add “&fmt=18″ to the end of a YouTube video’s url. Now to watch the 720p video format the trick is similar to that, simply by adding “&fmt=22″ to the end of the video URL

Currently there’s no view full screen option to YouTube embed technology for HD videos, but you can toggle it on from the Google service’s hosted video page. While these videos will result in slower loading and will trigger problems getting the clip to display on older hardware, it requires powerful PCs for smooth playback.

Here’s examples of an HD embed video on YouTube from wired:

and here’s the standard video playback

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YouTube to show MGM Movie

November 10, 2008

YouTube expanded its wings for more. Seems not only satisfied with the short videos, YouTube now also provides various TV and movies from MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The collaboration is intended to increase the ad revenue. Despite all the movies and television are absolutely free, but some ads will be displayed at the top of the video during [...]

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Minoru, 3D Web Camera

October 20, 2008

Minoru is a webcam that can show 3D visualization through the use of two separate lenses, which combine the images to offer this 3D effect. It actually works like a conventional webcam, so it will be compatible to use with any applications and requires no additional software.
Comes in a simple design, the shape remind [...]

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Samsung SC-MX20 YouTube Friendly Camcorder

July 10, 2008

Samsung is planned to launch its Samsung SC-MX20 in August, a new YouTube-friendly camcorder, apart from pride and a 680K pixel CCD sensor (720 x 480 resolution), this time also a 34x optical zoom, Advanced image stabilization, face recognition, an SD / SDHC card slot, battery good for three hours, a 2.7-inch LCD monitor (on [...]

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