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killr_b

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Okay. I did a pretty thorough search just now.
It seems that many people want to save youtube.com videos and google videos.
Neither of these require things that aren't already on you mac, but if you want to convert or watch them, you will need some software.

in http "tt's" have been replaced with "**'s" to prevent auto linky

To keep a youtube vid:

Get address:
h**p://youtube.com/watch?v=G8WOt1OOh7w
Change to:
h**p://youtube.com/v/G8WOt1OOh7w
That's removing the "watch?" and replacing the "=" with "/"
Then press return… the screen will change
Notice the address change!!!!
Get new address:
h**p://youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=G8WOt1OOh7w&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static15.sjl.youtube.com…snipped
Change "p.swf" to "get_video"
Press return and TADA! It's called "get video" but live with it, and rename it.

Google videos:
Navigate to vid:
h**p://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9060305020185604305&q=jfk+jr.&hl=en
Click the "Download" for mac/ windows" button
STOP the google video player from downloading
Click "manually download the video"
You get some text file… open it with textedit… it will look crazy:
# download the free Google Video Player from h**p://video.google.com/
gvp_version:1.1
url:h**p://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=0&secureurl=uwAAADcG8ineZuj0keQaYPFx0Yq1Hcvp6rI6fhcpv67p0rhZlQ0fXS_62CRP_J9RXRQnlczRWUX-9I4sU4hH3SA9ZGEQ7wR4WiC4_a-lUES9UcotIkS_42ZYibj4tSVTTKA7eHbujVeJuTzK5EF37McalRdRHkGF0uzfBZgHDZ_5X8JL_t68fNVizd6YD4nVGEMHEaC_Q-VqZCOghYmtaiaYI2cWfQZOgR0B7EzT0hWUXrYYUHDbJyAm6WDwnNFsFflZ6A&sigh=QP3gRzGS_pCf-8QKHeSBto7iI8M&begin=0&len=1725333&docid=-9060305020185604305
docid:-9060305020185604305
duration:1725333
title:Assassination of JFK Jr, Part 1
description:A no-holds-barred investigation into the mysterious death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
description:From the creators of JFK II: The Bush Connection


Just copy everything from "http… to the random numbers until "docid…"
DO NOT include the first "url:" or "docid… or anything after it in you copy

Paste into the address bar and press return, you screen will remain on your current page and the video will download an avi.


Now, I have a question.

How do I get videos like this one?
h**p://www.heavy.com/content/conagious_db/flash_video/whoamore_carmen.flv

That's right :D
 
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