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Latest real player version allows you to download youtube clips

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  1. wizkid83

    wizkid83 Member

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    Did not know that but was pleasantly suprised when I moused over a clip and it said click here to download.
     
    #1 wizkid83, Aug 29, 2008
  2. heypartner

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    are you saying it d/ls to your harddrive? or that Real Player is another player besides Flash to show youtube videos.
     
    #2 heypartner, Aug 29, 2008
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    It's a software allows you to play RMVB and RM format videos in you PC
     
    #3 ClutchCity3, Aug 29, 2008
  4. ROCKET RY

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    how exactly do you do this?
     
    #4 ROCKET RY, Aug 29, 2008
  5. heypartner

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    yes, i know what real player is. OP makes it sound like you can capture/download a youtube to your harddrive. that's not possible, right?
     
    #5 heypartner, Aug 29, 2008
  6. wizkid83

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    That's exactly what I'm saying. I use real player because for some reason people in China love it as a software, and most Chinese shows torrents are in rmvb format. So I finally update to the latest version because I was sick and tired of a box popping up asking me to do it everytime I play a real file.

    A couple of days later, when I was looking at a embedded youtube molvie, a small popup came up next to the video and said "download video", after clicking that I downloaded the video........ and I was like WTF, AWESOME.
     
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    <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tLrv0i1Vyj8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tLrv0i1Vyj8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>


    Basically show you how to do it, ignore all the crap infront of it, just download the free version and it'll show you how to download stuff you stream.... once again AWESOME
     
    #7 wizkid83, Aug 29, 2008
  8. heypartner

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    WTF, AWESOME.

    k, i'm d/l-ing the new real player now.
     
    #8 heypartner, Aug 29, 2008
  9. Apollo Creed

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    Doesn't firefox have an extension that lets you download them already?
     
    #9 Apollo Creed, Aug 29, 2008
  10. RC Cola

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    Yeah, I haven't paid much attention to how RealPlayer does things, but I've been downloading Youtube videos (and videos from other sites) for a long time. I think it was one of the first extensions I got for Firefox.

    edit: The one I'm using is called DownloadHelper. Might be others too.
     
    #10 RC Cola, Aug 29, 2008
  11. professorjay

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    There's also plenty of websites where you enter the youtube url (and many other video sites) and it will give you a link to download the video to your computer, usually in .flv format. Like KeepVid for example.
     
    #11 professorjay, Aug 29, 2008
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    Just tested this on a couple of other streaming sites, and they seem to work well there too. Too bad I was slow in knowing this since I only use IE, but it's still awesome to me.
     
    #12 wizkid83, Aug 29, 2008
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    Been using realplayer to download clips of sites for a while. Whats cool is it tries to keep the title of the youtube clips instead of for example "11242415419686851.flv" for "get_video.flv" like some other youtube savers do.

    Plus it'll download regular site clips that are in avi, wmv, divx and other type formats. Like the clips on NBA.com for instance. It can also save live streams! But saves them in "IVR" format whatever that is...I saved a whole Rockets game off the broadband NBA.com once.
     
    #13 Shroopy2, Aug 29, 2008
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    Yes. Download Helper. FTW.

    It now even lets you save it as whatever format you want, all in one step.
     
    #14 IROC it, Aug 30, 2008
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    This is old news about RealPlayer. RealPlayer 11 came out over a year ago.

    Last couple of times I tried to do this, it didn't work.
     
    #15 A_3PO, Aug 30, 2008
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    Is real player still chock full of spyware/malware like it used to be in the past?
     
    #16 TMac640, Aug 30, 2008
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    Is real player even relevant in anything at all?
     
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    What file extensions? *.flv? *.mpg? *.avi?
     
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    Mostly .flv for the files I've download.
     
    #19 wizkid83, Aug 30, 2008
  20. Rocket River

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    Isn't it just a player?

    Rocket River
    never used it much
     
    #20 Rocket River, Aug 30, 2008
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