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From: bartbrn on 13 Jun 2010 12:13
On Jun 11, 9:18 am, Mark Conrad <ae...(a)mostly.invalid> wrote:
>or if it is even possible to download a video to my hard drive,
> for later playback.
>
> Mark-

Yes, it is. I use MacTubes (http://brpg.hp.infoseek.co.jp/mactubes/
index_en.html), which allows you to D/L in flv, mp4, and HD (either
720p or 1080p). It works like a champ, and it's freeware.

Requirements:

* Only for Mac OS X.
* Universal binary application supported PowerPC / Intel(R)
processor.
* Mac OS X 10.4.2 or higher / Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. It's
compatible with 10.6.3 (Snow Leopard) [I'm using it with v10.6.3 Snow
Leopard, and it works great]
* Safari 2.0 or higher / Adobe Flash Player Plug-ins 9.0 or higher
* Safari 4.0 or higher / QuickTime 7.6 or higher (for "Video
Player / QuickTime Player")

Though it says Safari is a requirement, I use Firefox, but actually,
you don't need a browser at all, as MacTubes is, itself, a form of
browser. There's a manual with the browser, but the interface is
utterly simple:

Basically, I open MacTubes, type a title or keywords in the search
window, the app will search, and several (or sometimes just one, if I
have the exact title) video titles will show up in the window. I
double click on whichever video I want, and it will open up in its own
window. Once the video actually starts, if I don't want to watch the
video right then (and you probably won't, if your connection is that
bad), I just click on the Pause (II) button to stop it. Directly below
the Pause button in the video window are 2 buttons: the one on the
right is a "Loop" button, just like in iTunes, so you can repeat the
video over and over and over and.... well, you get the idea. On the
left of the "Loop" button is one of those "Gear" icons; click and hold
and a drop-down menu appears, with the following menu options:
Recently Played >, Search >, Add To Playlist >, Information, and, at
the very bottom, Download >. Mouse over "Download," and you get three
choices: FLV, MP4, and HD. Mouse over HD, and you get 2 more choices:
720p and 1080p. Mouse over the one you want ( I generally use MP4 or
HD > 720p -- never had much luck with 1080p -- and a "Downloads"
window will open and the file will start downloading. Open with
QuickTime, and there's your complete, clean video.

Every once in a great while, there will be some copy-protection/
embedded video glitch that will prevent the file from downloading, but
that's pretty rare.

Hope this works for you.

BTW, Firefox has some cockamamie add-on called "Download Helper,"
which is supposed to download embedded video (and images, audio,
whatnot), but it's up to v4.7.3, and I have NEVER gotten it to work
for me. MacTubes works 99.9% of the time, and the quality is excellent
(well, as excellent as the original, anyway).


From: Mark Conrad on 14 Jun 2010 04:35
In article
<ff45df94-b8a7-4115-b2b4-d79e4c8bd499(a)w31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
bartbrn <bbrown95(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> >On Jun 11, 9:18�am, Mark Conrad <ae...(a)mostly.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >or if it is even possible to download a video to my hard drive,
> > for later playback.
> >
> > Mark-
>
> Yes, it is. I use MacTubes (http://brpg.hp.infoseek.co.jp/mactubes/
> index_en.html), which allows you to D/L in flv, mp4, and HD (either
> 720p or 1080p). It works like a champ, and it's freeware.


Great - Thanks, I downloaded MacTubes onto this 10-year old
"G3 Pismo" PowerBook with its OS 10.4.11 and it worked. (mp4)

A PowerPC with a slow 500 MHz CPU is not the greatest Mac to
watch video clips with. <g>

Can't wait to try MacTubes on my newest Intel MacBook Pro,
no doubt it will work much better there.

Mark-
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