Downloading videos
March 22nd 2008 06:36
For a while I’ve been wanting to be able to download videos (like those on You Tube) so I can incorporate them in blog posts. While doing a bit of searching today I found that there’s a site - in fact it’s more of a program - called vixy.net. Here, you can copy the URL of a particular video you’re interested in and it will turn the video into an MP3 file. Don’t ask me how it does it; I’m just an amateur, you might remember.
However, it’s more economical time-wise to download the program from vixy itself because you get more speed sorting it on your own computer. This might also involve downloading .Net 2.00 (if that was the name), but that’s no big deal, though surprisingly it took a lot longer than downloading vixy, which was on my computer in a matter of seconds.
For some reason my Real Player wasn’t entirely happy at this point and demanded I download yet another item, the DivXInstaller. This time everything worked perfectly, and I now have a copy of my first downloaded You Tube movie, an animated version of a Roger McGough poem called My First Day at School. It’s typical McGough, full of wonderful puns and a strange view of the world.
Incidentally, if you go to McGough’s site, you can find a delightful poem about making your children support you in old age - something, that at my age, I appreciate greatly.
However, it’s more economical time-wise to download the program from vixy itself because you get more speed sorting it on your own computer. This might also involve downloading .Net 2.00 (if that was the name), but that’s no big deal, though surprisingly it took a lot longer than downloading vixy, which was on my computer in a matter of seconds.
For some reason my Real Player wasn’t entirely happy at this point and demanded I download yet another item, the DivXInstaller. This time everything worked perfectly, and I now have a copy of my first downloaded You Tube movie, an animated version of a Roger McGough poem called My First Day at School. It’s typical McGough, full of wonderful puns and a strange view of the world.
Incidentally, if you go to McGough’s site, you can find a delightful poem about making your children support you in old age - something, that at my age, I appreciate greatly.
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