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can't download youtube video clips

16 years ago

Up until yesterday evening I was able to download video clips from youtube by way of three downloading programs.

YouTube Downloader

save2pc Light

xVideoServiceThief

Two of the programs give a "no flash video found" message.

The other gives an error message xxx.

Thinking it may be an IE prob., I installed Fire Fox browser but this didn't help.

Any suggestions?

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
do you have the latest flash updates? I would go to the flash website and check to see if you need an update. You will need to do it for each browser.
Flash Player

to see which version you currently have
Version Test for Adobe Flash Player

do you have anything set to block flash?
you could just do a system restore back to the day it was working properly see if something might have changed your settings.
bob414
16 years ago
If you have the latest flash player (or even if you don't) you may want to try this: put abc between www. and youtube in the URL in the address bar of the video clip. Hit the enter key and it will take you to a page where you have a choice of what format you want to use to download it.
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I really can't recommend one. The only place I ever download streaming video from is Youtube, and not often at that. I linked the extension I use for that here but it only works on youtube.com. What I would probably do is go into "Add-ons Manager" and search for something like "video downloader" and look though them for one that purports to work on the sites I intended to use it. I'd also look at the number of users as well as the rating, with the realization that nothing works for everyone. Perhaps somebody else will come along and recommend one from personal experience, I'm sorry, I can not.
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What a coincidence! I tried to post a message a few minutes ago and got a message about cookies. I took a break, went to KT, posted with no problem, and came back here to try again. I found that I no longer have Flash Player. Somewhere in all the troubles I had recently it must have been deleted. I have tried to get it by clicking on a video that has a small box that says click here to download Flash Player. I download it but then I get a red box that tells me to read the agreement, which I've not found. I did get a list of Flash programs and I clicked on the version 10. It just sits there downloading endlessly. I went to FF addons and found this. Download YouTube Videos + Flash Video Downloader / Download-Helper 3.3.1 So, that is what I need? In Control Panel I have Adobe Reader 9.3.4. which is used for my church newsletter. Will I lose that if I get Flash Player? Firefox default browser. HP Media Center XP SP3 TIA Sue
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jean_mi_z5
16 years ago
The abc trick hasn't worked for me the last 2 days...when I click to download the mp4, (or any files), the next page says "Sorry, the URL is not recognized.."

Anyone else having that problem?
justme4now
16 years ago
The whole youtube site has changed it's format!
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
the kick youtube one seems to work I just tried it. Instead of putting abc you put kick in the url right before youtube. Then when it opens at the kick page at the bottom of the video you click on Kick, it then has a bar at the top with the various types of download file options choose the one you want like mp4 then on the right click on the green go, then right click on the download button and choose save link as.

If for some reason you are only getting the embed link then on the youtube site at the top left corner of your video where you see the name of the video poster click that and go to their page and click on share and it will give you a url you can use. You should also be able to get a good clean url if you click on the share button directly below the video itself on the regular youtube page.
jean_mi_z5
16 years ago
If for some reason you are only getting the embed link then on the youtube site at the top left corner of your video where you see the name of the video poster click that and go to their page and click on share and it will give you a url you can use. You should also be able to get a good clean url if you click on the share button directly below the video itself on the regular youtube page.

Kick isn't working work for me. I've followed each instruction and all I get is a link to the page.
gringo50
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks everyone for your help and response.
I upgraded the YouTube Downloader prog to the latest version and it works fine now.

the other two programs listed in my original post still fail to work for me.

Also ABC will not work for me.

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