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

In this section we will look at ways in which you can download source FLV videos from the YouTube site. Remember, do respect copyright and do not download FLV source videos that do not belong to you. In these tutorials, we will only show the video clips we ourselves uploaded to YouTube as examples. You may be breaking copyright rules if you download content that belongs to someone else.

Download YouTube Videos with KissYouTube

Download YouTube Videos with YouTube Downloader

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How does YouTube work? And should you download the videos?

Labels: flash video, movie, share, youtube

posted by Geetesh @ 5:57 AM 0 Comments

Download YouTube Videos with KissYouTube

KissYouTube.com is a site that makes it super simple for you to download the FLV videos on the YouTube site.



Using KissYouTube.com is easy -- just change the URL of the page on which you are watching the YouTube video, so that you add the alphabets "kiss" before the domain name youtube.com.

For example, if you wanted to download the FLV movie for this page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF0yCZ8PWco



You would go to the address bar at the top of your browser, and add the alphabets "kiss" without the quote marks before the youtube.com domain, so that it now reads like this:

http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=dF0yCZ8PWco



Scroll down the page and click the download link provided to save the FLV video to your computer.

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Download YouTube Videos

Labels: flash video, movie, share, youtube

posted by Geetesh @ 5:20 AM 0 Comments

How does YouTube work? And should you download the videos?

Although the title says YouTube videos, this post discusses any other similar video sharing sites. The technology that YouTube and other sites use may be something like this:

1. You upload your videos in any of the formats that YouTube accepts.
   
   
2. YouTube then converts your video to the FLV format -- this Flash based format is more suitable for viewing the content online.
   
   
3. You are provided a URL where this FLV content is embedded.
   
   
4. You can then share this URL with anyone, or use some embedding code to place the video on your site. The code that you embed sources the FLV from the YouTube site. At any point of time, you are not provided a direct download URL for the FLV file itself.
   

Although it is possible to do so, sites like YouTube don't really want visitors to be able to download the actual FLVs. However many programs and hacks have been developed that get over this limitation.

There's also another aspect to this download issue: plainly, you may be breaking copyright rules if you download content that belongs to someone else.

And there's yet another thought, that of the video quality. Most of the content on YouTube is compressed so that the videos can play well over all types of Internet connections. Sometimes, you can request the original owner of the video for a higher quality copy. This approach also allows you to request their permission to use the video clip.

Labels: movie, share, youtube

posted by Geetesh @ 8:42 PM 0 Comments