Jan 10
In this article I explained how to download a youtube video with safari, but it does not work for some websites, eg vimeo. There’s a neat little app here called Cosmopod that will set you back $10 but worth it if you want the easiest solution.
Cosmopod will add alittle button to safari that looks like this:
You simply click on the icon when you have a movie in your browser and it will download the video and convert it to a mpeg movie.
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Have you tried http://www.zamzar.com ?
This is a great service for getting YouTube video and have it converted into various formats.
I use cosmopod. It adds a button to the Safari toolbar. When you are playing a movie you can click the button to download the movie, convert to mp4 and add to itunes. http://www.cocoamug.com/cosmopod/
Its not free. But I don’t think Videobox is free either, is it? I think they are about the same price.
But I thought Videobox also had a function that automatically detected when a movie was playing and could start downloading it for you. I think it worked for me a few times but not consistently.
iCab is my normal browser. When I play a YouTube video the iCab filters automatically bring up a link at the top of the page to download the movie file. But it only works in YouTube.
I checked it out because I wanted to capture the world news and show it to students at our college.
Thanks for the info wayne. Following your advice I’ve tried the trial versions of both Videobox & Cosmopod. Videobox had some issues. It took quite a few attempts to accept the URL address of the video plus when it finally did the resulting video was fairly poor quality (both of these issues may of course have been the result of me doing something wrong). Cosmopod on the other hand worked very smoothly and produced a much better quality video. For what its worth my votes with Cosmopod. The button in the Safari toolbar is also VERY convenient.
[...] In this post I wrote about Videobox and how it useful to watch flash files. It is available for free from here as a special Christmas deal. [...]
At step 2, once you identify the downloading video file in the Activity Window if you Option click the FLV will just start downloading without any additional addons. USe it on a daily basis to grab video – from there open the FLV in Quicktime and then save it as a Movie File – too easy and no cost.
Cheers
Cosmopod doesn’t work with Safari 5.1:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191201?start=15&tstart=0