Quickly & Easily Download & Convert Video

Recently found out another forum post I made had it's video content source removed by YT. Some of you may be familiar with the Obama-Bilderberg vid in question - about 5 minutes of reporters questioning why they were being sky-napped (so Obama & Hillary could meet up with the infamous Bilderberg Group.)

Well, quickly found another YouTube source and pulled the original vid right away using an online service I often do before that one got purged as well.

As an aside, thought I'd share these resources with all of you.

VConversion - http://www.vconversion.com/
Online video conversion tool taht will pull video from sources such as google video, youtube, etc and prepare them for your download in a number of different formats (mpg, mov, wmv, flv, etc)

Vixy - http://vixy.net/
Another online video conversion tool quite similar to VConversion with a few less format options, a slightly faster process and some formats outside the scope of VConversion (divx avi for example)

Hope that helps some of you. Please feel free to add your own resources by commenting below.

Tags: conversion, convert, google, video, youtube

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Permalink Reply by Cal-el on December 16, 2008 at 2:39am: Ah, those only work for YouTube videos, right?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Drachnid on December 16, 2008 at 11:08pm: VConversion, yes,... not certain about Vixy, ....

VideoCodeZone ( http://www.videocodezone.com/conversion.php ) does however allow multi-site conversions from sources such as YouTube (youtube.com), Google (video.google.com), DailyMotion (dailymotion.com), IFilm (ifilm.com), MySpace (myspace.com), MetaCafe (metacafe.com) & Break (break.com).

KeepVid - ( http://keepvid.com/ )
Another alternative that allows access to numerous sites but seemingly only offers the originating flv file (which is fine for upload or through an FLV viewer) or mp4 format (for iPod consumption) as a download option.

Cal-el said:
Ah, those only work for YouTube videos, right?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by skinnychef on December 17, 2008 at 12:26pm: yo D! i use vixy more often, i'll have to try the other one! thanks!
xoxox
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Permalink Reply by skinnychef on December 17, 2008 at 12:27pm: oh, vixy works on anything. i use my "real player downloader" then convert to make clips...

skinnychef said:
yo D! i use vixy more often, i'll have to try the other one! thanks!
xoxox
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Permalink Reply by Smokescreen on December 17, 2008 at 9:26pm: I have been using mediaconverter It has a plugin for Firefox and has worked nicely for me. It will work with google video and live video as well as you tube
http://www.mediaconverter.org/; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Fei-Long on February 5, 2009 at 2:22am: http://www.mediaconverter.org/
Allows you to upload flv format directly from pc and convert to other file format... Handy!

at the Upload Video Page here it says:
"How it works
Files must be 100MB or smaller. We support .mov, .mpg, .avi, .3gp and .wmv file formats."

I uploaded in .flv and it worked. Thanks for the link Smokescreen :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by turtle on April 3, 2009 at 9:16am: Thanks so much drach for this info.. we both know what a challenge it is to scramble another video before its pulled...great info and links.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MainLineAdrenaline on April 3, 2009 at 10:13am: Drach,
Another streaming online video converter is located @ http://www.converttube.com/

Seems to work pretty well... (I'll stick to doing the conversions @ home, personally since I have more flexible exporting options here... but this is for the infrequent/ frequent user); ▶ Reply to This