Previously I can download YouTube video by opening the Activity and clieck on the right item then FLV file will be saved. But now instead of downloading it, Safari open it and play such video in the new tab. I'm not sure that this is happen after having some upgrade to Safari or after upgrading to Lion.
Do you guys face the same problem or have any solution to download YouTube video?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Do you guys face the same problem
No, we are using Firefox.
Hey yosawat!
Welcome to Apple Support forums.
I have been using your technique to download YouTube videos for a long time, and have now discovered it doesn't work all the time.
When you open the Activity window on a YouTube page, the link to the video usually has 3.4MB of 5MB or something like that on the right, with a link usually starting with on "http://o-o.preferred.exetel-syd1.v5.lscache7.c.youtube.com/" the left. If this is the case, click it once with your cursor, then copy it into QuickTime. Press Command-U. It will open up a dialogue. Paste it into the text field and hit enter. When the progress bar for your video finishes loading, then hit Command-S and save it!
If there is no 3.4MB of 5MB etc., then there'll be a bunch of links like i mentioned before. It's usually the last. Use the same method as outlined above.
If not, please reply and describe your situation. I'll try to help more from there!
Hope this helped, xeniqillu
Maybe try to be more helpful than that, Ziatron.
yosawat wrote:
Do you guys face the same problem or have any solution to download YouTube video?
I use SnapzPro, the movie version:
Snapz Pro X | Ambrosia Software, Inc.
89 USD. It is the premier screen capture tool. To download a YouTube video, I run the video to the end, then stop it and return to the beginning. In SnapzPro I select the video, start SnapzPro and the video at the same time. Perfect results every time. I use it for all my screen capture jobs, still and movie, but some might find it rather expensive for occasional use.
go to keepvid.com,type in the url of the video u want to download.select quality n ur download will start..
TRY
select it in the activity window, then hold down the option key and click again, it will start downloading.
Hugh
You can also install the ClickToFlash extension. The html5 versions of the YouTube videos will then be played. Right click the video and download the mp4.
Thanks, it works! 🙂
Hi charlesadam!
I just bought a macbook pro and tried the keepvid method that always works on my windows based computer. When I try it on my mac all I get after copying the Youtube url and then pressing DOWNLOAD it freezes with "Loading Java Applet" I've tried different videos and different times of the day, with no success. Any suggestions?
Why did you bother wasting your time to make that comment? This is regarding Safari, not firefox. I'm curious how you found this and decided you need to make a post.
Ziatron wrote:
Do you guys face the same problem
No, we are using Firefox.
Can't download YouTube video
