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  Saving video to disk? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-24 16:07 +0100
    Re: Saving video to disk? David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-06-24 09:52 -0700
    Re: Saving video to disk? arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2014-06-24 17:31 +0000
    Re: Saving video to disk? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 17:52 +0000
    Re: Saving video to disk? Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-06-24 18:25 +0000
    Re: Saving video to disk? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-24 20:33 +0000
      Re: Saving video to disk? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-27 13:33 +0200
    Re: Saving video to disk? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-24 21:20 +0000

#3812 — Saving video to disk?

Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages 
like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so 
that they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?
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#3818

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:07:31 +0100 in comp.misc, Peter Percival
<peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote,
>Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages 
>like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so 
>that they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?

Yes.  There may be some exceptions.
Search "video" on newsgroup alt.comp.freeware 

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#3820

In article <loc47k$qjj$1@news.albasani.net>,
Peter Percival  <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages 
>like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so 
>that they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?

There is a firefox plugin for downloading youtube videos that I
just installed today and seems to work fine. I don't know if it's
general.
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#3824

Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages 
> like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so 
> that they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?

Short answer: yes

But the "content owners mafia" does not like this option, because it
means a "copy" exists beyond their direct control to determine when,
how, where, and at what cost, it will be before you can watch the
video.

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#3826

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:07:31 +0100, Peter Percival wrote:

> Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages
> like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so
> that they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?

In the case of BBC News, the material is probably on iPlayer. If so, 
download that using something like get_iplayer.

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Using UNIX since v6 (1975)...

Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
 http://www.mirrorservice.org

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#3830

Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages like
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so that
> they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?

I use the Python program youtube-dl which seems to work with a large number
of different web sites.  Because it's not a plugin it won't go stale every
hour or two as Mozilla releases the next Firefox that often now it seems.

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#3901

On 2014-06-24, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages like
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so that
>> they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?
>
> I use the Python program youtube-dl which seems to work with a large number
> of different web sites.  Because it's not a plugin it won't go stale every
> hour or two as Mozilla releases the next Firefox that often now it seems.

Mozilla introduced the concept of a plugin white list in the latest release
of Firefox.

I have already started to change my browsing habits to use Scientific Linux,
which uses Firefox ESR (currently release 24.6.0).

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#3835

On 2014-06-24, Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can videos (for example youtube stuff and stuff embedded in webpages 
> like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27997688) be downloaded to disk, so 
> that they can be replayed at will without consuming bandwidth?

I use a Firefox plugin called "DownloadHelper" to do just that.


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