Improve Video Quality with a YouTube Hack!

Laura Bergells who runs Maniactive linked to this tip on Lifehacker.

This quick hack allows you to quickly view a higher quality video on YouTube.

All you need to do is suffix "&fmt=18" witout the quotes at the end of your YouTube URL.

Laura has put up some samples in her post along with more details, thanks Laura.

Labels: flv, movie, share, youtube

posted by Geetesh @ 2:25 AM 0 Comments

Download YouTube Videos with YouTube Downloader

YouTube Downloader is a program that lets you download FLV source videos for any of the movies you see on the YouTube site. It is a free program that you can download from here...

Once you install the program, follow these steps to download YouTube videos with YouTube Downloader:

1. Launch YouTube Downloader, and enter the URL of the YouTube page that contains the video you want to download (see Figure 1).
   
   
   Figure 1: Add the URL of the YouTube page that contains the video
   
   
2. Make sure that the Download video from YouTube radio button is selected, and then click OK.
   
   
3. YouTube Downloader will show you a File Download dialog box (see Figure 2), and ask you to choose a name and location for the downloaded FLV movie.
   
   
   Figure 2: Save the YouTube movie
   
   
4. Once the download is done, you'll find a FLV file in the location you saved it to. If you find that the downloaded movie has no file extension, rename it to add a dot and the extension "flv" -- so that get_movie reads as get_movie.flv
   

Remember: YouTube Downloader is a constantly updated product -- sometimes YouTube might change a few things on their site, and YouTube Downloader may no longer work. If that happens, check the YouTube Downloader site for a newer version.

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Labels: download, flv, movie, youtube

posted by Geetesh @ 5:42 AM 1 Comments

What is FLV?

FLV stands for FLash Video, and is a proprietary streaming video format from Adobe. This format is used to store and share the video clips on sites like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, and many other sites.

Normally you cannot download the actual FLVs, but there are applications and hacks that let you do so. There are also several FLV players and converters (that convert FLVs to other movie/video formats) available.

Labels: flash video, flv, glossary, movie

posted by Geetesh @ 12:40 AM 1 Comments