Sorry I've been away for a couple of days.
You tube videos are playable by an embedded flash player in your browser. They are not intended to be downloaded. The true url is obscured. Google allows d/l's now, they used to have the same arrangement.
On a pc running Windows, there are browser extensions in Firefox that make it very easy to d/l the video, but those don't work in the mac version, for some reason.
The d/l'ed file does not have the proper extension. The link I mentioned above runs a script that renames the file to a .flv, which is what it is. VLC can play flv files sometimes.
I tried to play a motorcycle helmet cam video in VLCand it started out fine and quickly crashed VLC. The motorcyle crashed, too :eek: . The car in the left lane skidded to avoid running into a car in front of it and slid sideways.
iSquint fixed it (the video, not the bike) somehow, and very quickly and for free. The video had rapidly changing frame rates, that seemed to fool VLC.
There is a standalone flash player for Panther, but I hate flash in general and would like to have my videos in as few formats as possible, so I can still view them 10 years from now.
