YouTube flv video 1,740 kb download problem
Hey Warriors. Have you noticed that many, if not all, YouTube flv videos will not play in any of your video players lately? I have been chasing after every video player and codec pack I could find for months because I mistakenly thought that players and/or codecs were the source of the problem. As a result I have months worth of incomplete training videos and downloads that I thought needed some elusive codec before I discovered the that all of these "broken" videos had a file size of 1,740 kb in common. This information is sparsely discussed on the Internet but I never found a solution to the problem in the few comments I found on the subject.
Once I discovered that the problem was a truncated file size due to some apparent change in the YouTube delivery system it became obvious that the problem was in the video downloader, not players or codecs.
Every video downloader I tried returned the same frustrating 1,740 kb flv file size. After trying many different utilities and plugins I finally found one that gets the job done. It's a free FireFox plugin called, "Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV". You can get it here - https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/fir...nload-youtube/
Once you install the plugin and restart your browser you should have a new "Download" button just to the right of the "Share" button under the YouTube video player. You will usually have the option of downloading videos in flv or mp4 using the drop-down menu of the "Download" button. Every time I have used this plugin I have gotten the entire video and it replays flawlessly.
If you are watching an embedded YouTube video on a site and want to download it you must first click the "Watch on YouTube" button which will open the video in YouTube. You will then have access to the "Download" button and you can then grab your video.
I hope this information saves you the time and annoyance of trying to solve this problem by trial and error as I had to.
If you use Internet Explorer, Chrome, etc., I'm not sure if they have similar plugin solutions or not, as I rarely use them. I use the 64 bit version of "Pale Moon" which is based on the FireFox platform.
Good luck,
John
Once I discovered that the problem was a truncated file size due to some apparent change in the YouTube delivery system it became obvious that the problem was in the video downloader, not players or codecs.
Every video downloader I tried returned the same frustrating 1,740 kb flv file size. After trying many different utilities and plugins I finally found one that gets the job done. It's a free FireFox plugin called, "Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV". You can get it here - https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/fir...nload-youtube/
Once you install the plugin and restart your browser you should have a new "Download" button just to the right of the "Share" button under the YouTube video player. You will usually have the option of downloading videos in flv or mp4 using the drop-down menu of the "Download" button. Every time I have used this plugin I have gotten the entire video and it replays flawlessly.
If you are watching an embedded YouTube video on a site and want to download it you must first click the "Watch on YouTube" button which will open the video in YouTube. You will then have access to the "Download" button and you can then grab your video.
I hope this information saves you the time and annoyance of trying to solve this problem by trial and error as I had to.
If you use Internet Explorer, Chrome, etc., I'm not sure if they have similar plugin solutions or not, as I rarely use them. I use the 64 bit version of "Pale Moon" which is based on the FireFox platform.
Good luck,
John