# Please Help Me With A YouTube Question? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 22, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026 "2009-04-22T22:48:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/1 "2009-04-22T22:48:03Z")
Actually, you’d be helping a friend in Adelaide who is a teacher… What she would like to do is copy a song to her USB, take it to school (where they have YouTube blocked) and play it for her students. Since the coding will _have_ the YouTube embedded in it, and since it **is** blocked, can she even do this? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/2 "2009-04-23T00:24:18Z")
She can use [this tool](http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-MP3-Converter.htm) to “capture” the audio of the YouTube video to MP3, then put the MP3 on her USB drive. I’ve downloaded and used that app before, but I can’t completely guarantee its safety. What I would do is download it, run a virus scan on it, then run it. 90% sure you won’t have problems. ---
**Author:** ![Mudz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@Mudz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudz)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/3 "2009-04-23T00:28:12Z")
[Keepvid.com](http://Keepvid.com) enables you to download YouTube clips for personal use. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/4 "2009-04-23T00:29:45Z")
Use any one of the many ‘download Youtube video’ sites to snag the video as a flash video file (.flv) Use a ‘portable’ flv player (runs straight off the removable media) to play it [http://fcportables.blogspot.com/2008/03/portable-flv-player-309.html](http://fcportables.blogspot.com/2008/03/portable-flv-player-309.html) ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/5 "2009-04-23T01:40:06Z")
If she uses Firefox, there are firefox extensions that download youtube video. I use DownloadHelper. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/6 "2009-04-23T06:42:12Z")
Youtube video uses .FLV files. It is easy enough to copy that flv file from the computer cache to a pendrive. To play it you need a codec which will play FLV like FFDSHOW. Other than that you can convert the FLV to AVI, MPEG, WMV or other common format. You can do this online or download a progam which will do it. [http://vixy.net/](http://vixy.net/) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/7 "2009-04-23T11:35:18Z")
I have linked her to this thread. She will be along to thank y’all personally, and just so you know, she’s the kind of school teacher you trust to let your child learn. She is constantly expanding her horizons and brings it all back to the classroom. I know this first-hand, having watched her mesmerize class after class in one of our elementary schools here in Paulding County while in the States recently. Thanks for your help, Kids! Bill ---
**Author:** ![Malleeroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Malleeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/8 "2009-04-24T11:28:36Z")
Well folks, I have downloaded and tried each and every one of your suggestions and have progressed no further. I did get the mp3 to work but not the video. Before I fly into unpleasant vocabulary, I will send this thread and the URL of the Youtube video to 2 of my computer champ students who will no doubt have it downloaded and organised in 2 minutes. I will then count on them showing me the ins and outs on Monday. Thank you so much for your time and information on this matter. I do apologize for being so challenged. Have a good weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Sri\_Theo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sri\_Theo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sri_Theo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/9 "2009-04-24T12:26:43Z")
The video is probably a .FLV. You need something like VLC to actually play back the file, that’s all. Can get it here, [Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN](http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) but if you have some handy computer geeks they probably know this. ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/10 "2009-04-24T15:57:02Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > I have linked her to this thread. > > She will be along to thank y’all personally, and just so you know, she’s the kind of school teacher you trust to let your child learn. She is constantly expanding her horizons and brings it all back to the classroom. > > I know this first-hand, having watched her mesmerize class after class in one of our elementary schools here in Paulding County while in the States recently. > > Thanks for your help, Kids! > > Bill Naughty, naughty! Engaging kids in a classroom? Heresy! You understand, I hope, that here in the US, we can’t have people in the classroom demonstrating enthusiasm, creativity, or joy. We do “read the chapter, answer the questions, take notes, prepare for the quiz, don’t ask questions. Next week, we call off school to prepare for the tests.” This is a country where we prescribe just about everything a teacher does (don’t ask me about all the programs that come with actual scripts), because, as anyone can tell you, ANYone can be a teacher. Trust a teacher? I don’t think so. Please send your friend back to Austrailia so that we can resume the mind-numbing process that passes for teaching these days. Bitter? Who’s bitter? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/11 "2009-04-24T16:12:55Z")
In my original post I thought that the teacher just wanted the music for the song, not the whole video. My bad! You can use [this free tool](http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm) from the same company as the first link I posted. You can save the video to your computer as an AVI which can be played on any media player. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/12 "2009-04-24T19:15:20Z")
Thanks,\*\* Zip\*\*, **Sri Theo** , **sailor** , **fubaya** , **mangetout** , **Mudz** and **CC** for the help and kind words. I wish ya’ll could meet my friend in person! I really believe that the reason she gets on with her kids as well as she does, is because there is a special part of her that is still a little girl. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish she, her husband Luke and I lived closer together. ---
**Author:** ![Malleeroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Malleeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/13 "2009-04-25T08:11:04Z")
> [@CC](#): > > Naughty, naughty! Engaging kids in a classroom? Heresy! You understand, I hope, that here in the US, we can’t have people in the classroom demonstrating enthusiasm, creativity, or joy. We do “read the chapter, answer the questions, take notes, prepare for the quiz, don’t ask questions. Next week, we call off school to prepare for the tests.” This is a country where we prescribe just about everything a teacher does (don’t ask me about all the programs that come with actual scripts), because, as anyone can tell you, ANYone can be a teacher. Trust a teacher? I don’t think so. Please send your friend back to Austrailia so that we can resume the mind-numbing process that passes for teaching these days. > Bitter? Who’s bitter? What a bummer Hijack! You can come to my class anytime. (Adelaide, Australia) I have a grade 5/6 all boys class as we just happened to have an over abundance of boys for the last few years. I have some really cool kids in my care, Tap and ballet dancers, a BMX national champ, a few math whizzes, three computer geniuses who in grade 4 could take apart and put together computers, plus artists, writers and deep thinkers. Last year we disected a sheeps brain, this year a heart and lung. We also constructed a castle and medievil armour. I wanted to download the “Cha Cha Slide” video for the boys to look at then learn to do for their mothers next week. They are putting on a Mother’s Day morning tea, wearing a white shirt and tie, pulling out mum’s chair and dancing with her plus a few entertaining performance items. My class is pretty hands on. After Mother’s Day and the National testing we will hand dye and felt some wool for an art project. ---
**Author:** ![Malleeroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Malleeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/14 "2009-04-25T08:16:31Z")
YES!!! I have a video on my computer and saved to my USB. Hugs and kisses all around. Many thanks for you helpful community assistance. I feel elated. A glass of red is in order I believe. Cheers!!! in case you want to watch the “Cha Cha Slide” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jCEu_dFfw6I/hqdefault.jpg "Cha Cha Slide") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCEu_dFfw6I) ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/15 "2009-04-25T14:13:07Z")
> [@Malleeroo](#): > > What a bummer Hijack! You can come to my class anytime. (Adelaide, Australia) I have a grade 5/6 all boys class as we just happened to have an over abundance of boys for the last few years. I have some really cool kids in my care, Tap and ballet dancers, a BMX national champ, a few math whizzes, three computer geniuses who in grade 4 could take apart and put together computers, plus artists, writers and deep thinkers. Last year we disected a sheeps brain, this year a heart and lung. We also constructed a castle and medievil armour. I wanted to download the “Cha Cha Slide” video for the boys to look at then learn to do for their mothers next week. They are putting on a Mother’s Day morning tea, wearing a white shirt and tie, pulling out mum’s chair and dancing with her plus a few entertaining performance items. My class is pretty hands on. After Mother’s Day and the National testing we will hand dye and felt some wool for an art project. I’d\* LOVE \*to come to your class. Unfortunately, I’m not in the self-promoting expert division of my profession, so I can’t get some publisher or granting institution to pay for my trip. Your kids are lucky. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-youtube-question/494026/16 "2009-04-26T11:24:19Z")
**Malleeroo** **ROCKS** (Y’all) B~