Sunday, November 6, 2011

Downloading Youtube video/audio using Safari

Steps for downloading youtube videos/audio

Visit the specific Youtube page for the video, for this you must use the Safari browser.
Open the Safari Activity window (window - activities on the upper toolbar)
Look for the biggest file in the list of files that open up, probably the only MB file.
Open your Downloads folder and control - click on this get video .flv file then "Open With..." and choose MPEG Streamclip.
Export the video to Quicktime for video files, and Audio for audio files (duh).
If you do Audio, it will save as an .aiff file, which you can later edit in Audacity.


If you do this at home, you might have to install the Perian plugin to get the .flv files to play in Mpeg Streamclip.

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