Comments on: Download Web & Flash Videos to a Mac

By: pa1189

pa1189 — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:45:25 +0000

I think I’ve found a way to download these YouTube segmented files.
In Safari turn on the Develop menu from the Preferences/Advanced. Go to Develop/Show Page Resources, refresh the YT page and wait until the ‘Other’ folder appears in the left hand panel. Select that and look inside for a series of items starting with playback. Select one of them. On the right hand panel copy the full URL listed at the top. Paste that into an address bar, then scroll along until you find a section starting &range=. Delete that section up to but not including the next & sign. This is now a link to the complete file. On the Mac I then click alt+enter and the file downloads.

By: Strong1

Strong1 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:43:13 +0000

i updated my Mac and now the activity feature has vanished. Does anyone know how to download videos without the use of “activity”???

By: Flybear

Flybear — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:22:45 +0000

Keepvid.com maybe the easiest way to download YouTube videos, But to download YouTube videos with this site, it will ask you to “download Java” to your Mac. In comparison of these youtube downloading sites or free apps, I would choose Zamzar.com or enolsoft free youtube downloader hd for mac.

By: newbeginningboy

newbeginningboy — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:54:06 +0000

Just google search Step by Step Guide on How to Download and Convert YouTube FLV, F4V, WebM to Mac format

You will find a detailed guide on how to download as well as convert YouTube to Mac format so as to play YouTube on Mac QuickTime or iTunes, edit YouTube on Mac Final Cut Pro X/Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Express/iMovie; transfer YouTube to iPod/iPhone/iPad for playback on the go.
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By: fero

fero — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:42:12 +0000

You can do this. Most likely, it’s a flash file that’s playing, even though it can be converted to an HTML5. ‘right’ click on the flash player or video playing to bring up flash menu settings (3rd from the bottom indicated by “… additional options”, a small window with 5 or folders or tabs appears. The middle folder has an option slider to set how much access flash has to store on your computer. Set this to unlimited. Now you should see in the activity window the file uploading, a large downloading file. Some of you haven’t seen this. You don’t need additional programs to download files that are converted to HTML5. if you command click that file, or command double click depending on your settings, the video will open in a new tab or window. You’ll notice the video is now playing in Apples native HTML5 format. Insert your cursor at the end of the address field, for those using Safari 6 you have a simplified address bar, and once it’s there press option+enter. Now you see the video downloading at the download shortcut link in the upper righthand corner.

By: lulu

lulu — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:00:24 +0000

when i download it and find it in my finder and rename then press play it says it cannot be opened bcuz the video format is not recognized. helpppp

By: DVious

DVious — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:58:25 +0000

P.s. It’s not just YouTube.

I have two mac pros, one has Lion and one has snow leopard.

Snow leopard wouldn’t download all files types – I think that it would open a new window to display the mp4, and never actually download the file. Like forced streaming.

Lion used to download all file types. But, since the update, it acts like snow leopard did.

I might look what benefits I got from the last Lion update (I think there might’ve been something actually useful in it), and consider if I can remove the update.

By: DVious

DVious — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:53:29 +0000

Is it just my computer? Lion was fine for downloading at first. Since updating Lion, I find that ALL YOUTUBE FILES ARE 1.7Mb, in the activity window.

They were never going to work.

My mac is happy that they are flv, and automatically associates with them.

I don’t get any error message of any description. Just a 1.7mb video file, that has no play time at all. Not a black screen, nothing.

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By: Raymondduong

Raymondduong — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:43:49 +0000

Same here. I think the problem is actually not a problem. In OSX Lion this is fixed. I used to be able to download on Snow Leopard. Maybe youtube had a word with apple or some …

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:57:34 +0000

This doesn’t work for me. It downloads fine, but when I try to open it (it has the .flv extension), QuickTime tells me that it can’t open an .flv file?

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:10:01 +0000

this method can’t be used now

By: ddn

ddn — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:26:44 +0000

This method by RL still works as of today with OSX version of Firefox — only difference is that it will start playing in the firefox window so just go to file .. save as and you can save the video file. Works fine.

By: errrm

errrm — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:42:44 +0000

my problem is i cant find the goddamn large file size in the activity window, only small ones

By: Than

Than — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:19:52 +0000

If another window is opened, that means that the video is in mp4 format. What you should do is copy the address of the new window and paste it into the downloads window (Click in the downloads window and then press Ctrl-V to paste).