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The Solution to Herky-Jerky Online Video
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rockville, MD
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Given that streaming online video (YouTube, Hulu) still sucks compared to television for most people even with broadband, I'm amazed that nobody has figured out or offered a way to capture or cache an online video for you (however long that takes), so it can be played back later like a regular movie file without the nuisances of slowdown, lag, Flash problems, etc. Or maybe it's out there and I just don't know it.
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
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I use Safari's Activity viewer to download Flash vids I want to watch if the clip is longer than a couple minutes.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Ditto. The Activity panel is mad useful. There are also many programs that will do it for you and even convert the video to a different format (search MacUpdate — there were 10 or so last time I looked).
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Chuck
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Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Jose, CA
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Can you elaborate on this? What do you do with the Activity window?
Steve
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Double-click on any resource in the Activity window and Safari will try to open it. In the case of YouTube and other video sites, just double-click the large .flv file and it will download (since Safari can't open flash video by itself).
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Chuck
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
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With YouTube, you can use this favelet to get quick access to the mp4 file:
Code:
javascript:if%20(document.getElementById('download-youtube-video')==null%20&&%20!!(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)))%20{var%20yt_mp4_path='http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id='+swfArgs['video_id']+'&t='+swfArgs['t'];%20var%20div_embed=document.getElementById('watch-embed-div');div_embed.innerHTML=div_embed.innerHTML+'%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cspan%20id=\'download-youtube-video\'%3E%3Ca%20href=\''+yt_mp4_path+'\'%3EDownload%20as%20MP4%3C/a%3E%20'+%20%20((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari')!=-1)?'(control-click%20and%20select%20%3Ci%3EDownload%20linked%20file%20as%3C/i%3E)':('(right-click%20and%20select%20%3Ci%3ESave%20'+%20(navigator.appName=='Microsoft%20Internet%20Explorer'?'target':'link')%20+'%20as)%3C/i%3E'))+'%3C/span%3E';}void(0);
(Make a new bookmark in Safari, and then copy-paste the above into the Address field.)
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