YouTube question

[Petebass]

Is it possible to somehow save a video from YouTube on to a PC? Better still is there a way to save the audio only?

 

[Sonic_Death]

There is an add-on for Firefox and Opera called VideoDownloader where you can download streaming videos from sites like youtube to your computer in a .flv file. I am not sure if there is a way to save audio only, I was wondering about that too a while back.

 

[ROON]

Use this program for recording sound, Total Record. It's really good.

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[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Better still is there a way to save the audio only?

Any audio editor can do it (Audacity is a free one). Just set your sound card's recording source to "Wave" or "What you hear", start recording and play the video in your browser. You'll get the audio with no quality loss.

 

[Captain Chaos]

http://vixy.net/

 

[AmazingGracePlayer]

I have a question too, is there a way to get a myspace video (not found on youtube) onto the computer? I'm also only interested in the audio part.

 

[RWP]

http://vixy.net/

Great site Captain, thanks!

 

[Bernie Connors]

If you have a Mac, you can use iSquint to convert them once you download them.

To download them, all you need is Safari.

 

[Petebass]

This is fun My progress so far.....

Sonicdeath, I downloaded the add-on and it seems to work. The converter Captain linked me too is a little too confusing for me so I'll have to hunt around for a converter later.

Roon that program you linked me to looked promising but it's not compatible with windows Vista (Sorry Bernie, no Macs here). I'll hunt around for something that is.

Alvaro I downloaded Audacity and it looks pretty darn good, especially for a free program. Reminds me of Cool Edit Pro and Wavelab, only more user friendly. However my sound card isn't so easy - I hunted around in control panel in the sound card's recording section I couldn't find how to set the sound card's recording source to "Wave" or "What you hear". It's a new PC and maybe the standard soundcard isn't up to it? Or is this the sort of thing all sound cards should be able to do?


Thanks for everyone's help so far.

 

[Petebass]

I have a question too, is there a way to get a myspace video (not found on youtube) onto the computer? I'm also only interested in the audio part.

OK I've done it! I used this program:-

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...nd_Event_Editors/Audio_Recorder_for_Free.html

It's free. All you do is hit record, then hit play on the myspace/youtube video you're interested in. It records whatever's coming through your sound card and saves it to a file. It can save in MP3, WAV, or WMA and it sound quality is good.

Here's a tip, close your email software down first. I recieved an email just as I started recording and the email notification sound came out on the recording Maybe close ALL other software just to be safe.

Couldn't have done it without you help guys. thanks.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I hunted around in control panel in the sound card's recording section I couldn't find how to set the sound card's recording source to "Wave" or "What you hear". It's a new PC and maybe the standard soundcard isn't up to it? Or is this the sort of thing all sound cards should be able to do?

If you use Windows, those settings can be found by double-clicking on the speaker icon in the tray (Lower right corner). You should see a "playback" mixer. For the "recording" mixer, look in that window for something like Options > Properties. Then you'll find two radio buttons: "Playback" and "Recording". The second one, of course, will show you the recording mixer, which allows you to choose a source.

 

[Captain Chaos]

OK I've done it! I used this program:-

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...nd_Event_Editors/Audio_Recorder_for_Free.html
...

Couldn't have done it without you help guys. thanks.

Hmmmm.....I wonder if I should download, my McAfee site advisor bar turns red.

 

[Petebass]

Hmmmm.....I wonder if I should download, my McAfee site advisor bar turns red.

Hmm, I'l let if your if my PC develops any problems. I just used the program to record 8 MP3's off youtube and the PC seems to be working without any dramas.

 

[Sonic_Death]

I have been using Audacity for years for recording and never knew it could do that. Awesome!

 

[AmazingGracePlayer]

OK I've done it! I used this program:-

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...nd_Event_Editors/Audio_Recorder_for_Free.html

It's free. All you do is hit record, then hit play on the myspace/youtube video you're interested in. It records whatever's coming through your sound card and saves it to a file. It can save in MP3, WAV, or WMA and it sound quality is good.

Here's a tip, close your email software down first. I recieved an email just as I started recording and the email notification sound came out on the recording Maybe close ALL other software just to be safe.

Couldn't have done it without you help guys. thanks.

I tried recording, turned the quality to highest, and the sound came out pretty crappy...

 

[Petebass]

I tried recording, turned the quality to highest, and the sound came out pretty crappy...

The only ones the came out crappy for me were the ones that sounded crappy on youtube already. Crap in = crap out.

Maybe it's a Vista thing?

 

[AmazingGracePlayer]

I'm using XP. I listened to the video and the quality and it's pretty good, but the recording sounds very thin...

 

[Captain Chaos]

If you use Windows, those settings can be found by double-clicking on the speaker icon in the tray (Lower right corner). You should see a "playback" mixer. For the "recording" mixer, look in that window for something like Options > Properties. Then you'll find two radio buttons: "Playback" and "Recording". The second one, of course, will show you the recording mixer, which allows you to choose a source.

Thanks you!