woodturning video's

Interesting movie and turner.. lol

thanks!

Mac

Greg G.

Thanks for posting this site. Very informative!! It's in my favorites log.

Sorry Greg you are quite correct it's YouTube told you I was getting old ;-)

That's OK, just pointing that out. Half the time I wake up it take 15 minutes to remember who I am. And another 16 hours to try and forget again. ;-)

Greg G.

Now owned by Google.. Mac

Youtube's great, you'll find all kinds of things there, humor, educational, you name it. Really good for music. I found a clip of the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival that PBS shows periodically, and it was an hour and 45 minutes long! Also the other night watched Steamboat Willie, Disney's first Mickey Mouse cartoon, circa 1927 or something. Awesome!

B.

Buddy Matlosz a écrit :

Buy It?

Yes it is well worth the money. I believe there is a trial version.

It's easy to save the videos once you have aplace to save them to....

Here's how.....First thing to do is make a directory on your C drive to save all the videos in.

Here's how to do that: You'll find the C:// or Command Prompt in Start/Accessories Click on "Command Prompt" and you'll be taken to a screen that shows C:// (and possibly a couple of other directories tacked onto it ). Your main goal is to get to the C:// prompt. If other directories are there after the C:// what you do next is type CD .. (CD dot dot) (that's the letted CD for Change Directory and two dots or periods). Do that same thing until there's nothing left in the line except C://

Then type MD Videos (MD = Make Directory) or whatever you want to call the place to store the videos. Hit return and you'll see C://videos

Next type exit and hit enter and that will take to back to the original screen.

NOW: To save the videos in "Videos" do this.

Move the mouse to the line you click on to view the video - Right click your mouse and then select "Save Target As". A box will appear and then all you have to do is find C://videos - select it and save. That's it. The video will be saved in that directory. Once the yukky first part of this (making that new directory) is out of the way it's straight forward.

The easiest way to view the videos after is to put a "Videos" icon on the screen. If you need help with that I can explain how to do it.

"Everyone has to see something for the first time"

Keith P.

Don't mean to rain on your parade, but none of this will help the OP.

Not really. Your method only works on sites that will allow you to download videos, and have a direct HTTP link to them. YouTube videos are Macromedia (Adobe) Flash video (FLV) and are called by script in the page. They are intended to be protected from saving. >Here's how.....First thing to do is make a directory on your C drive to save >all the videos in. >

Uhh.. just typing CD \ will get you to the root. But...

This is all unnecessary. Assuming you are using M$ Windoze, all you have to do is open Windows explorer and right click in the right hand pane, select NEW | FOLDER, and then type in the name desired. No need to invoke the command shell, and for those who are uninitiated, I would advise against it.

Sorry, but this will not work on most video sites, including YouTube, Google, iFilm, etc. If hovering your mouse over the link in your browser does not display in the status bar an exact filename, with a media extension such as "myvideo.mpg", you ain't getting nothing but a page of script or a refusal to download with this technique.

Again, unnecessary. All known file extensions have their own default icons which will appear if you drag the video as a shortcut to your desktop, for instance. Also, the YouTube videos are FLV's, and there is no default media player installed which will play them unless they are imbedded in a web page and called by an imbedded Flash Video Player. Media Player, for instance, doesn't have a clue what to do with them.

There are a few players you can download which will play FLVs standalone, this is one:

Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem of how to get the videos onto your hard disk, which involves finding where the browser stores the Flash cache, copying the file from a protected zone on the drive, and renaming the resulting file which is named something like this -- get_video?video_id=O_yhXqX7zAA -- into something human readable. The usual location of the cache is: C:\Documents and Settings\CurrentUserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

The file appears when the video has completely streamed to your drive, and disappears when you close the calling browser's window.

Good Luck

Greg G.

I'm always open to new ideas and helpful comments....

- First: What's an OP????

- All I can say is this works for me...Even opens from YouTube.....The files were all saved as .WMV - Windows media video. I downloaded all the Robert Sorby files from their site too and a whole bunch from other sites, including many from seafoamwoodturning.com. They all work fine using the method I described.

- I'm using Windows XP just so anyone following my directions will know.

- Yes CD \ will take you to the C prompt as well...One step less I suppose if there's more than one directory ahead of C://

"Assuming you are using M$ Windoze, all you have to do is open Windows explorer and right click in the right hand pane, select NEW | FOLDER, and then type in the name desired."

- I'll try this and see what it does for me...The other way worked, so I had no reason to go otherwise. If it's easier I'll use it. There hasn't been a problem so far using my method. Maybe the problem you suggested with YouTube FLVs happens with other than XP????

"I wish I was 18 again so I could know everything" Keith P.

I'm really not trying to be a smart-ass. ;-) Just attempting to disseminate accurate information.

Original Poster - the person who started the message thread.

Nope - better check again. ;-)

I've done development work on Windows since NT 3.5 and run various servers, so I went and tried XP, 2000, and Server 2003 and none of these will do what you claim with Flash video, which is one of Adobe/Macromedia's selling points - secure, cross-platform media.

If you are downloading WMV's, then it is because they have a link on the page to a WMV, not a Flash Video.

Unless you have installed some "capture" program I am unaware of (unlikely), you cannot dowload a FLV as a WMV. It would require re-encoding the file with a different codec.

There are many, many hot-key shortcuts and right click menus available to speed you work. They can be rather inconsistant between programs, however - very annoying.

LOL. Well, I'm 50, so I've already forgotten everything.

Greg G.

It's time for me to be humble...You are correct about YouTube...I realized after I checked that I WATCHED the JT Dunphy videos on there and didn't download them. The others I mentioned were successfully downloaded.

Keith P.

That's cool, Keith. And you now know the procedure for snagging FLV's, but don't tell anyone... ;-)

FWIW

Greg G.

They just purged 30,000 videos from their file on request from the Japanese so I would expect anything like Disney clips will soon follow suit. There is a lot of copyrighted stuff there.

educational,