YouTube: Can you download clips?

[Soul Stream]

There's some great clips on YouTube that I'd like to download. Is that possible?

[DatDere]

This is supposed to work, but I haven't tried it myself: http://keepvid.com/

You probably need a player that can handle Flash video files.

I'm thinking of archiving some of those Youtube clips myself, I have a sneaking suspicion that many of the music videos won't be around much longer.

[Dave Garrett]

If you use Firefox, there's the VideoDownloader extension.

[Claude]

  Dave Garrett said:

If you use Firefox, there's the VideoDownloader extension.

Thanks. It works great.

(Check the "See the extension at work" page)

[Epithet]

  DatDere said:

I'm thinking of archiving some of those Youtube clips myself, I have a sneaking suspicion that many of the music videos won't be around much longer.

Why?

[Claude]

Because those music videos are being uploaded by Youtube users without the authorization of the copyright owners.

[Epithet]

  Claude said:

Because those music videos are being uploaded by Youtube users without the authorization of the copyright owners.

Different kind of music video, I guess, because I didn't really think anyone cared enough to take down Solomon and Weissenberg and Arrau clips. But, yeah, it happened for some reason.