From: Andy on
What is the best way to record Internet video clips? From YouTube, to
News clips and everything in between.

Given the size of the video files I don't plan to keep these on the PC
but probably record them on DVDs.

Is there a video format that is better than other formats - like say
mp3 for audio? And how about a Video player?

This started last night - I downloaded a video in an m4v format and
after looking it up on Google decided to stop and look more into this.
Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

Andy
From: VanguardLH on
Andy wrote:

> What is the best way to record Internet video clips? From YouTube, to
> News clips and everything in between.
>
> Given the size of the video files I don't plan to keep these on the PC
> but probably record them on DVDs.
>
> Is there a video format that is better than other formats - like say
> mp3 for audio? And how about a Video player?
>
> This started last night - I downloaded a video in an m4v format and
> after looking it up on Google decided to stop and look more into this.
> Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Andy

Replay Media Catcher (payware)
Camstudio
RealPlayer (with the Download and Record plug-in)

With those you should be able to capture most everything.
From: VanguardLH on
Andy wrote:

> What is the best way to record Internet video clips? From YouTube, to
> News clips and everything in between.
>
> Given the size of the video files I don't plan to keep these on the PC
> but probably record them on DVDs.
>
> Is there a video format that is better than other formats - like say
> mp3 for audio? And how about a Video player?
>
> This started last night - I downloaded a video in an m4v format and
> after looking it up on Google decided to stop and look more into this.
> Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Andy

Oops, thought I was in a different newsgroups, so Replay Media Catcher which
is payware isn't appropriate here. However, considering what it catches, I
don't know of freeware that can do nearly as well. You can get it free it
you're willing to endure their TrialPay scheme (where you agree to
participate in some offer). This is how I got it for free but I picked an
offer that would be easy to terminate before any money got involved.
From: VanguardLH on
Andy wrote:

> What is the best way to record Internet video clips? From YouTube, to
> News clips and everything in between.
>
> Given the size of the video files I don't plan to keep these on the PC
> but probably record them on DVDs.
>
> Is there a video format that is better than other formats - like say
> mp3 for audio? And how about a Video player?
>
> This started last night - I downloaded a video in an m4v format and
> after looking it up on Google decided to stop and look more into this.
> Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Andy

(2nd post. 1st didn't seem to make it.)

Replay Media Catcher (payware)
Camstudio
RealPlayer (with the Download and Record plug-in)

With those you should be able to capture most everything.
From: baynole2 on
DownloadHelper, Firefox extension, works well for me. I can burn the
flv's w/ DVDFlick, & watch w/ VLC.