TubeSock is a great-looking app for OS X that lets you save videos from YouTube and easily convert them for viewing on your iPod, FrontRow, or anywhere else. Freeware purists can skip over this one--it costs $15 if you want to be able to convert more than the 30 seconds of video allowed by the trial version--but the rest of you, read on: TubeSock integrates with Safari and Firefox, providing a "Show in TubeSock" button. When you're looking at a YouTube page you can press the button, which will open TubeSock with a preview of the video. Then there's a handy "Convert" button that will not only put the video in your desired format (H.264 by default, of course), but it will also send it to your device program of choice--your iPod, iTunes, or FrontRow. Very slick.So, can anybody point me to a Windows equivalent?
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8-30-2006 @ 5:45PM
Streak said...
I've been doing this for a while for free with the VideoDownloader extention for Firefox and iSquint, this may be a little more convenient but I'm cheap.
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8-30-2006 @ 6:57PM
Adrian said...
I've been using VideoDownloader too. You can either install the extension on type the URL of the video onto their website.
After, I just either use Doctor Divx, the open source MediaCoder, or PSP Video 9.
And if you want to just watch the video file, there's an free (maybe it's open source) video player called FLV Player.
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8-30-2006 @ 9:29PM
Rob Terrell said...
The windows version of TubeSock is well underway. I hope to have a release early next week. Thanks!
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