My life/fandom may depend on this

[strangeumbrella]

1. Does anyone know if it is possible to download and save a video from Youtube?
2. Does anyone know, by extension, how to do so?

Because if you do, and you tell me, I will actually give you cake or money or free love or anything you want. I really will.

EDIT: HAHAHA IT'S ALL GOOD NOW BECAUSE thatgirlsoph IS A MONKEY GENIUS

Comments

[thatgirlsoph]

Ooh, me please! :D

And to save videos off YouTube, you can use some dudey-thing on this site to save it as a .flv. Then you have to download and install FLV Player... don't know if you can make the file an .avi or .mpg or something again. *shrugs*
:)

[strangeumbrella]

OH MY GOD, YOU ARE... JUST... I HAVE NO WORDS. (I'm maybe a bit overexcited that I can finally get this stuff) YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE PERSON RIGHT NOW.

I shall now make you an icon with as much input of love as possible.

[thatgirlsoph]

Hee! Merci :P *is flattered by the... flattery*

(I've friended you - I hope you don't mind ;).)

[strangeumbrella]

Of course not! And I friended you too, your icons are great :D

Anyway, you got THREE. Partly for your Youtube-based greatness, partly because I am quite indecisive, and partly because that song's been in my head all day.

[decembre]

ME! +I would love you. If you're still bored +avoiding revision, that is :)

(I would especially love you if it was textless. But shhhh. I have no say)

[strangeumbrella]

I will never stop avoiding revision. (Until I'm not meant to be revising, obviously.)

[decembre]

Ten years later I comment to say THANK YOU! So pretty :)

[flamingkitties]

Hello redvelvetjacket (via lj user = "zooniverse"> said you went off to the ukulele orchestra workshops, what were they like? What did you learn...!?

If you're going again, can you apologise to Mr Penultimate for me..., I said I would interview him (by email) when I met him in Edinburgh last year but my website idea never got round to completion so I didn't mail him and I feel all guilty (he probably forgot anyway...)

Hello!

[strangeumbrella]

Hello there! Are you another UOGB fan? For we are few and far between (but also fantastic).

The workshop was excellent. :D ukuelelovin and I went along in February, and we were a bit scared, to be honest: we'd only been playing for a couple of months and were convinced that everyone else would be stunningly good, we'd never been to Cecil Sharp House (where it was held) before and didn't really know where we were or where we were meant to go... and we were also convinced it would be impossible to get through three hours with people we really admired without saying something unbelievably stupid. Luckily, it was ok when we got there, and we ended up crammed into a very small room with about thirty or so other people, Hester and George.

We had a great time, and everyone was able to play at their own level - which, for us, was pretty much just basic chords - and we got to learn a few of their cover versions, as well as "Antiphon", and we got a very nice booklet thing with lots of chords in it which I don't think I have lost yet. The workshop was

[flamingkitties]

I am a big fan, despite only seeing them once, I love them, they're great

[strangeumbrella]

I know what you mean - I knew of their existence for a while, and had always been vaguely interested in seeing them, and then when I finally did I was absolutely blown away and I now go along whenever I can. Luckily, they seem to play about once a month or so in London, so I get to see them fairly often :D

I got my uke as a present but I think it was around £40 - it's decent, sounds nice enough, and doesn't go out of tune too often, but since then I've been to specialist uke shops where they seem to have very little for under £100. O.o So I think I am still at the low end of uke purchase... I'm impressed you have three! I've only got the one - I'd get another, maybe a tenor, but I'm saving for a bass guitar.

I think I got my chords off here, which made everything very clear and I found easy to learn from. And have you seen this website? I didn't learn an awful lot from it, but I killed myself laughing

[flamingkitties]

Oh and did you find out how to download from YouTube yet?

If you are using Firefox, you can get an extension called VideoDownloader, which allows you do download various videos from different video streaming sites. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's very useful.

[strangeumbrella]

Ah yes, thatgirlsoph explained above. :) (And it worked! I have the video I wanted now.)

[albakerky]

Ooh can I have one? If it isn't too late?

I will put this in my next entry. Yers.

[strangeumbrella]

It's never too late.