Re: How to download online videos?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Mirco Piccin <pictux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, firefox/iceweasel has a lot of plugins that handle .flv (and
> also other extension) video download.
> I.e. :
> Fast Video Download
> Magic's video Downloader
> and so on...
>
> And that's the better way.
Yes and no. Using something with a little more polish is great, but
YouTube seems to be adept at engineering around all of the existing
plugins and extensions. I've found the "hard way" to be much more
reliable, since any buffered video is going to have to be downloaded
and cached somewhere.
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Michael A. Marsh
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