I have a dial-up connection that takes forever to finish buffering YouTube (or any large video or music files)–apart from springing for the extra bucks for broadband (I have my reasons) is there a way for me to save the YouTube file already buffered to my Hard Drive, or do I have to get the whole thing buffered again every time I want to look at a clip I like?
If I’m suggesting anything illegal, immoral, fattening, impossible under the physical laws of our universe, contrary to God’s will, etc., please just kill me now.
Also, if your answer gets all at technical, could you explain it in language simple enough for a cocker spaniel to understand? Thanks
If you use Firefox there is and extension Video Downloader that will download the file to your hard drive.
I believe there is a similar tool for IE.
How can you even watch YouTube on dial-up? Don’t you have to wait like an hour for each video to load up?
My suggestion for downloading YouTube clips is to use http://keepvid.com/
Indeed. Even with WiFi it takes 4-5 minutes to d/l a 10 minute clip (depending on the time of day—sometimes it is much faster).
Sometimes that (and 3 others that use the same tools) website won’t connect to the link, no matter what you do. Then I just go to my Temporary Internet Files folder and move the file to a more “permanent” spot, renaming the file with a .flv extension.
Here’s another online resource for converting and keeping YouTube stuff:
http://vixy.net/flv_converter
Pretty good if you have no way to play .flv files offline, but there are several programs that can either play .flv files offline, or convert .flv files to .avi (or whatever) offline, or both.
I would not recommend this site to someone on dial-up, as you must first d/l the original file, wait for the on-line conversion, and then d/l the conversion.