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Previously I used to put cursor over video and a download symbol used to come up and could select to down load a video - for some reason this no longer occurs and I see no indication of how to download from You Tube - anyone know what's going on? Perhaps something has been turned off? Or have You Tube changed something that I'm not aware of?

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For someone that won't put any effort into being liked, you really are trying today.
Well go on then, I'll. Like you.

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Cut and paste the whole Youtube.com line into your post.
I used to spend ages trying to do it until someone explained it.
Hey, 5 likes- slow down, kestrelx!

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Gordon I was going to suggest that - am going to post this here as it's Christmas...

Animals of YouTube sing "Jingle Bells" - YouTube

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Will you look at that! he's gone offline without liking me back.
Some folk have no gratitude, or else the system is wrong...

where's that unlike button?

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I think he means download the .FLV from youtube

KesX what browser do you use?

you just press like again

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Yes but that only cancels a 'like'-I tried it on you.
Where's the proper 'unlike', 'dislike', 'hate' button?

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It's. Called karma press the scales and vent your spleen...


Go on, you want to.

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I do! I do! I do!
But karma is private, a 'like' is public. Why can't we have a public 'hate'- much more fun.

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I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.



Only because I wish I'd said that.

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Hi Restless - I use Windows Explorer - previously when playing a you tube clip to put the cursor over the vid and a icon pops up which when clicked on would start the video downloading. Recently this seems to have stopped - do you know why? And what has replaced it as the way to download a vid? Cheers.

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Is that your own youtube videos you want to download?

Install firefox or chrome and download an extension/plugin that will allow you to download from youtube....

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No it's any video's! But how come I used to have no problem downloading and now suddenly it doesn't work? There always used to be an icon that came up saying "Download" when you clicked on it then the video you were watching down loaded on to the computer!

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I dont recall seeing a button that officially did that... You didn't install a program that added the button?

Youtube are now blocking those downloader plugins for lots of stuff because of all the breaches of copyrights.

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I had a lot of my favourite songs/videos on Youtubefm. Half of them are now blocked off.

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Mmm but :confused:- I can't see any icons about downloading at all - so what's happened? Could it be that something has been disabled on my browser? :rolleyes:

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There isnt a button that lets you download

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I assure you and I've uploaded my own video's and downloaded them straight away and also downloaded other music and information video's and what used to happen was; as you put your cursor over the video - a icon would come up that if clicked on, offered options to download the video currently being watched. Now for several months now - that has ceased to occur - this is the question I'm asking - WHY? Cheers. ;)

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The answer is obvious and I have covered that(i think--or am I imagining it?)

If you want to download your own videos. Go to video manager. Click the arrow pointing down next to edit on your video and click download mp4

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Well, I cannot help with the why..
But try a free product called vdownloader.
I think you will find its pretty good.

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Or DW helper....that is worth a try too.

d w helper free download
Here is a link that might help

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From the youtube terms of service

This means that any youtube downloading software is in breach of their terms of service

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Well as stated anyone used to be able to download any video from You Tube. That seems now to have been stopped by them - as stated I downloaded loads of pop/rock and any type of video on the site, without needing to use any external software. The files went onto my real player software and could be played back whenever one wanted to.
;)

There have been a lot of changes to You Tube in last several months so this stopping open downloads could be one of them. :confused:

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Downloading YouTube videos - YouTube Help

I would say a lot longer than that... Anyway who uses Real Player!!! crap dude. Crap!

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Real player is free cheap and effective and easily available. Say no more!;)

A few years ago on You Tube there used to be "friends" and "contacts" options. They recently took away the friends option and now it's only contacts. So they probably may have disabled the facility for instant downloads - eh Dude! :)

Thanks for the link!

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Just reading the link you posted Restless, it's obvious that You Tube are taking out the "free" element of the service and getting ready to start charging people for downloading!? I used to download as many vids as I wanted all day - now this link you posted says only 2 an hour! They are changing the rules.

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There used to be a service where companies could sell videos. Google have removed that. I don't blame them with all the flack they much receive from the very same companies.

It would be a total mess to manage. A user base of hundreds of millions.. A large percentage of which upload copyright materials. To add element of buying videos.... It would be too messy and it will kill youtube daily stats. The link states how to download your own videos-- not a service to download videos. They have to block that as much as possible now.

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They are blocking free downloads so that you have to stay on their site more frequently in order to watch the video's on their site - that's obvious. They don't want you to download vids and watch them freely. They want you to stay on line, on You Tube watching the vids, so they can make you watch their advertisements they have on every video they show these days. Thats why freedownloads have dissapeared. :cool:

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There is a lot better than Real Player, try VLC, it's a whole world better and it's free etc.
Both Margaret and I have given you names of download software, if you do download copyrighted material, then that is illegal.
Both those are free and you can choose a output format.

If you had googled download you tube you would have had a answer almost immediately.

Sounds like you want to have a whinge about YouTube:eek:

You are totally wrong!.

Google have been doing a lot of fighting against these companies. Fighting for freedom of the users. Only way to achieve this is to block the downloads to protect themselves and the userbase

VLC is good choice. Cause of the variety of supported codecs. I like xbmc. You require plugins but worth it for a tv pc (htpc)

Anything is better than Real Player... That includes Windows own media player.... which is positively awful

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Absolutely could not agree more, I hated Real Player, I had no idea it was still out there, it also makes QuickTime look good...lol

I will check out Xbmc, cheers.

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There is an android version now :)

Here is a video of a version of it running on the RaspberryPI... of course runs much better on a pc that is powerful....... but for £20-30....

Raspberry PI Booting/Running RaspBMC - YouTube

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things happening in the video
1) Booting
2) Browsing music files(unreleased concerts) on my externalHD
3) Playing High Quality FLAC Audio
4) Browsing backed up TV shows. XBMC Scrapes the info, artwork etc
5) Browsing youtube (stealth cat video)
6) Proof I own the Red Dwarf DVDs
7) What the R:PI looks like :)

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Now that is nice, the xbmc looks good as well!

I may just have to get a raspberry, takes me back to my Commodore Pet days.

You'll love it. They are cheap as chips too. They run Linux based operating systems from memory card. So a fully working computer for under £30! (Tho not so powerful)

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I tried VLC and I didn't like it. Real Player is good and is easy to use - people have different tastes I found VLC rubbish but I don't bleat on about it!;)

The issue is previously - the last time was round March 2012 I could download countless video's off You Tube and they have changed it - why? For the reason I stated - to keep people logged onto Youtube for longer! That is one reason there are probably others... they have increased advertisements on video's this last year also - which are nearly on every video - before they were less frequent!

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I rarely download videos, but my daughters little boy is mad keen on Skylanders and he wanted a video downloading to put on his mini laptop(he isn't allowed on the internet)
I downloaded a short sequence(it was the Skylanders Advert) using DWP helper(this was before I found out it was not legal to do so...or that it contravened the terms of usage)......it was very easy to do, and I was able to put it on his mini laptop.

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No not really I wanted to know if others had the same problem? :rolleyes: Or if it was somthing on my computer that was wrong? It seems there is no one present who has used Real Player to this extent and has previously downloaded music video's of all kinds from You Tube without restriction - which I have done time after time. No restrictions on copyright on some songs and I mean material that is well known uploaded by people other than the record labels. This could be under threat also. :confused: :)

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If you want to download off YouTube, then there are plenty of solutions out there. Whether or not its illegal is another matter, the choice is yours.

I am supprised you did not like VLC player, it is very simple, I am afraid real player fans are fairly rare.
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I've downloaded loads of songs and interviews and talks off their, as I stated I often (prior to around March 2012) downloaded video after video for hours with out using any other software other than the facility that has now been disabled on You Tube. Just at the click of a mouse. They have taken that away - obviously to restrict what people can access off line! ;) Thanks for the list.

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I stopped using realplayer when they were caught out spying on users and sending information about your usage back to them.

They supposedly stopped doing it after being caught out but I have not trusted them since.

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It is a free to you service and they are now making money from adverts that they try to make you watch. If you just download everything you wont watch ads and they wont be able to provide the service.

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My 'bleating about it' is just advice for anyone reading to keep their PC as clean as possible. :) I don't particularly like its looks, though I think you can skin it. Its not about looks though. Its about file compatibility and the vast amount of files it will play. I download a fair bit of bootleg concerts (*roio*) and over the years they come in all kinds of weird formats. For example.. VIDEO_TS folders. Just right click and press "play in VLC" I can't think of any other programs that do that...off top of my head that is.

Well. For my media, I have a PC (HTPC) setup to my TV that boots to XBMC. I don't bother much with programs on my main machine to play music etc etc.

Because of storage limitation; I have thrown all the jewel cases from my CD's and I keep them in those DJ boxes. I rip all my CD's to FLAC and store them on the HTPC. XBMC scrapes the info for artists, albums, artwork and etc. You can get plugins that connect to sites like Grooveshark, Youtube... etc....XBMC can be quite excellent

Before anyone asks what ROIO is...

**The alternate terms ROIO or RoIO, an acronym meaning "Recording of Indeterminate Origin", or "Recording of Independent Origin", and VOIO or VoIO, an acronym meaning "Video of Indeterminate Origin", or "Video of Independent Origin", arose among Pink Floyd collectors trying to clarify the differences between counterfeits, illegally made copies, live bootlegs, and "ROIOs", meaning recordings whose legal status was difficult or even impossible to determine**

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You know, I have been using VLC player for so long, I forgot how easy it is.
I am in the same position, I have hundreds if not thousands of Pink Floyd downloads as well as Marillion and other prog rock.
How anyone can use something that is essentially bloat ware is beyond me.
FLAC is such a godsend, at least you can store music digitally without losing anything in compression.

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It certainly is!

I recently bought a SanDisk Clip+. I ordered a 32GB mem card to go inside it and it arrived today :). But more importantly it is Rockbox supported.

There aren't many devices that are supported by Rockbox alternative jukebox firmware. Brings gapless to a handful of devices. I have an Ipod Classic that you can load with Emcore kernel and then run an unstable Rockbox but I think the hardware is starting to fail on it(had it 5 years) Rockbox even makes the Ipod Classic play 24/48khz FLAC files! :D

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Im starting to think that you had some kind of program running you was not aware of. You said it went into RealPlayer library? Perhaps a RealPlayer plugin that has now been barred by google.

EDIT

Real player added a button to youtube. It was never part of the site that let you download

I am moderately surprised they still advertise this program and haven't yet been done for this feature

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We talked about Rockbox before, I too use a iPod classic, for the car amongst other things. I will have o try it on my iPod
All my music is in both FLAC and Apple lossless, which is a bit of a pain.....
Still

That's very naughty of Real to advertise a YouTube download. Sneaky

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Make sure you backup your Ipod... Emcore will wipe it.

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I agree quick time is rubbish I very rarely used it, except when a file could only be played using it back in the late 90's. But don't know how good it is on Mac products which I never use anyway - but seen it in use on a Mac computer and it looks more user friendly - perhaps the free one is not as good as the one people pay for? Perhaps...

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All the files I have on the Real Player now and in other places are "FLV" files which are Flash files. Now I didn't select that option they just seem to download spontaneously as that format. I like watching Real Player video's with music and or graphics

I don't use i-player or any external music file players - I still use CD's and also in some cases cassette's - I don't think I'm in a hurry to get an i-player or similar.

With Real Player (the free version) I just click on the Icon on the desktop, it opens click on Library and all the files are there in line in rows of 4 with icons - they can be arranged by date or alphabetical and you can search the data base - don't see there is a problem with it - easy to use etc.

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I don't use a Mac.
QuickTime is avaiable on PC's.

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I know I've only ever used it on PC's. :rolleyes:

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That's a good point! It's possible it's something that's happened on the Real Player as it's a free version it could be a prompt to buy it? :)

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The program is breaking Google's TOS! Paid for or not It cannot(or rather it shouldn't) be able to download files from youtube. Most likely Google have blocked it somehow.

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Hark the upholder of Internet copyright law!:confused: :(

I bet you've done your fair share of ripping and nicking music in your time.

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That's a bit libellous, no one has accused you of illegal downloading.

You will be accusing me next.

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I am actually starting to feel that I am flogging a dead horse with this one.

Nevertheless.

Google. The now owner of Youtube get contacted tons and tons and tons of times per day by companies like Warner Brothers, Virgin, SONY ETC. Because someone like you or me might put up a song. By this We are not doing something all that bad. But then again, Back in the day it was just cool to browse youtube. We are sharing with the world. Telling them what we like.

Then it became another means of downloading music. Streaming music doesn't hurt the record business(an opinion of my own not a fact) however the option to download from the site does because you are not buying the mp3(in case of those plugins that turn FLV into MP3) from the record companies. Hell I have had infraction for putting a cover version up of an REM song. This is not from Gooogle this is from the stinking record companies.

Google added a condition to their terms of service. You cannot use any other software to download. This is pretty tricky to avoid-- there are tons of ways you can connect to youtube and stream them to various devices. There is a very VERY fine line between streaming and downloading but major companies are making that line thinner by the day




Google
try their best to protect their users from what I gather. They don't add this condition to the TOS so they can make money. Its to protect them and to protect us the users. Without us Google would be nothing.

Real
A company that takes your information(or did at one point-- see what Neil said earlier) and then sells it on to other companies because you agreed to it in the disclaimer when you installed their garbage software!!

Completely and utterly irrelevant to this discussion.

But to answer this(though it is covered earlier) 90% of my downloads are actually FLAC files from a site that people that tape concerts, upload them for others to listen to. I have mentioned before( and to you in PM ) that I am a collector of live bootlegs.

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I have uploaded music with BBC footage and certain things are blocked immediately others were on You Tube for over a year before I was given a message saying "copyright issues" but the vid was not blocked. It all depends if the material is part of a DVD that is being sold in the shops such as most Attenborough material and Brian Cox things - they are blocked immediately. News clips are not blocked or even acknowledged.

Also I have uploaded vids featuring music by big acts like Fleetwood Mac - this is blocked instantly. Other songs by lesser acts are not blocked - it all depends on the size of the artist and the record company. Likewise video's with big name music in the background can also be blocked instantly or a notice is sent to you but free access to the clip not blocked.

As for why I can't download like I used to it's either Real Player or restrictions imposed by You Tube in the last 9months. ;)

Of course it will be Google's restrictions. Real still advertise their product as a YouTube downloader(again stupid on their part)

I dunno the reasons for instant bannings. Must have something to do with past contact from obstinate record companies

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I think they must have an automated system that detects certain material that has some kind of strict copyright regulation. Or possibly it's done manually by people they employ to check. Like BBC material that is being sold on DVD - I used some Brian Cox footage from that program he did about the Solar System and it was instantly blocked, it was on sale on DVD. I used a bit of Dr Who episode and it took about 2 years before I recieved a notice saying it was blocked all over the world. In some cases they acknowledge you are violating copyright and it is only blocked in certain countries or they slap an ad on the vid as compensation and then keep it 100% accessible.

I was even given a warning for using my own punk track as it is owned by a record company who have it available on i tunes.

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Definitely automated. My rem cover version was marked within minutes of entering. Keywords. Rem, country and feedback

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So your version - with you singing was blocked - that's unusual. But that's because you linked it to Rem - if you hadn't I don't think it would have been blocked! :cool:

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or they just have a " must be acceptable standard" filter in place... :p

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Funny thing is today - it's come back on again! :confused::confused::D

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updated real player?

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Na it just seemed to come on with out me doing anything - :) so I don't know why?

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because its crap :D

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This is a new computer I am talking about - with Windows 8.1 and it never allowed me to download with Real Player!