Downloading Ukulele Videos

November 7, 2007

There are some videos that crop up on the internet that really need saving. Videos on YouTube all to often disappear without warning (Roy Smeck and Jack Pepper have suffered this fate). Your net access might be limited. You might want to take the videos on your travels. Some of the shows on Midnight Ukulele Disco are worth watching over and over without the slow download. Luckily, it’s possible to save these videos to your computer so they’re available whenever you want them.

There are a number of websites that will let you download videos from YouTube and many other video sharing sites such as KeepVid and VideoDL. All you do is plug in the url of the video page.

Downloading MUD videos is a little trickier. Find the video you want to download. Here you can select Flash or Quicktime video – Quicktime is larger, better quality and will work on iTunes.

Then, in your browser, click View => Page Source (in Firefox) or View => Source (in IE).

This brings up a page full of coding (or gobbledygook as normal people would call it). Do a search on this page (click Ctrl and F) for ‘.flv’ (if you’re on the Flash video page) or for ‘.m4v’ (Quicktime).

You should find something like this:

http://ukuleledisco.com/discoflash/MUD_goodwife.flv

or:

http://ukuleledisco.com/disco/MUD_lightsagain.m4v.

Select that url and copy and paste it into your download manager (or just into your browser if you’re using Firefox).

You can do a similar thing to download Aldrine Guerrero’s Ukulele Lessons on Iamhawaii. But this time there is only the Flash video. So go to View => Page Source, search for ‘.flv’ and find a url like this:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/iamhawaii/ukulele/Uke8.flv.

Copy and paste that and you’re away.

EXPECTING TO FIND CHORDS/TABS? Try clicking where it says the name of the song in red under the video.
Written by Woodshed · Filed Under YouTube 
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13 Responses to “Downloading Ukulele Videos”

  1. Percy on November 8th, 2007 1:45 am

    I download flv files (e.g. from YouTube) with the service from the following site:

    http://www.downloadflv.com/

    Maybe this tool will help you, too.

  2. Jeff on November 8th, 2007 1:12 pm

    Very timely data. There’s some video’s that I’d like to create my own tutorial DVD with. So that I can watch over and over or so that I can play along with.

    Thanks so much for the information.

  3. Howlin' Hobbit on November 8th, 2007 4:36 pm

    I use vixy.net for saving YouTube vids because it not only downloads for me it’ll translate them into various formats (instead of .flv files). I use the .mov for Mac format because that’s the kind my Linux box likes best but you can also get .avi files for Windoze and, IIRC, they have one specially for iPods and such.

  4. Woodshed on November 8th, 2007 9:17 pm

    Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll add them to the post.

  5. Jereme Hancock on November 12th, 2007 4:32 pm

    I have just started a site that features ukulele videos indexed from YouTube. It also allows you to download them.

    Check it out here.

    http://www.UkuleleVideos.com

    Thanks, Jereme

  6. Woodshed on November 12th, 2007 8:04 pm

    Good luck with the site, Jereme.

    On first impressions it seems a bit ad heavy, content light. I guess that’s going to change when you develop it more.

  7. Woodshed on November 12th, 2007 8:37 pm

    Jereme: I edited out one of the links in your comment. Please keep in-comment links on topic. Thanks.

  8. Jereme on November 12th, 2007 11:44 pm

    @Woodshed

    Sorry about the link. It is just habit. :)

    Also, the ads on http://www.UkuleleVideos.com are a sort of “filler” at this point. I also wanted to have some links to Uke resources for those learning the Uke.

    Thanks, Jereme

  9. Jereme on December 4th, 2007 5:33 am

    I just wanted to let you all know that I have updated the http://www.UkuleleVideos.com site to use the new YouTube API. I have also integrated the advertising a bit better so it is no so intrusive.

    And of course you can download any of the videos with just one click.

    I would love to hear what you guys think.

  10. Woodshed on December 4th, 2007 8:31 pm

    Looks good, Jereme. I’ll be mentioning it in my next link post.

  11. Jereme on December 5th, 2007 12:49 am

    @Woodshed
    Thanks for that!

    I am actually just about ready to update it yet again. I have put together something that I think is much better than either of the previous versions.

    Thanks, Jereme

  12. Jereme on December 5th, 2007 2:39 am

    Just wanted to let you all know that I have just upgraded http://www.UkuleleVideos.com to a much better platform.

    The new version uses the latest YouTube API and allows for better integration and customization of videos.

    Love to hear what you all think.

    Thanks, Jereme

  13. Jereme on February 19th, 2008 12:39 am

    I just wanted to let you know that I have completely redesigned the http://www.UkuleleVideos.com site. It now has its own independent comments and rating system as well as some other cool features.

    http://www.UkuleleVideos.com

    Thanks, Jereme

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