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  Downloading YouTube videos with MPEG Streamclip

  Posted by Frank Cervarich on January 8, 2013 at 6:33 pm

  I’m trying to download some temp music from YouTube that will be replaced by library music for a client using MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b8 without success. I go to YouTube and find a music video that I want and click on ‘Share.’ That reveals a URL. I open File and Open URL in MPEG Streamclip. Then I drag the URL to the blank space in the box after clicking on ‘Download.’ I get an error message. Am I doing something wrong or are there embedded protections against downloading music? Thanks for your thoughts.

  Nick Shookla replied 13 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  January 8, 2013 at 10:00 pm

  You need to locate one of the many sites or apps that will lift a youtube video for use on your computer…

  You can download just the audio track.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Frank Cervarich

  January 8, 2013 at 10:07 pm

  I thought MPEG Streamclip was one of those apps.
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  Nick Shookla

  January 9, 2013 at 4:22 pm

  Hi Frank,

  Have you looked into “videodownloadhelper” — a free add-on for firefox?

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

  It puts a little icon at the top in your tool bar, and it will light up when it detects a video that it can lift. From my experience, I’ve only run into a few youtube videos that it wouldn’t rip. Download speeds may be a little slow, but it will do the job — and it will also let you choose the different resolutions of the video to download.

  -Nick

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