Comments on: YouTube in MP4 via QuickTime Plugin!

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:26:24 +0000

This isn’t working for me either on the sample 2 I tried. I have moved on to using ClickToFlash, and I recommend its use in all cases. http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

By: deryk

deryk — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:53:07 +0000

no videos I tried on all browsers (chrome, safari, firefox) worked. I’m running latest everything. does this still work? All i get is the question mark in safari, and nothing in the other browsers.

By: david

david — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:51:45 +0000

Some Vids have an Flash-var named ad_host=. In this case the skript doesn’t seem to work.

It can be fixed when adding a “&” in the regular expression:
flash_values.match(/\&t=([^(\&|$)]*)/)

By: Racecarlock

Racecarlock — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:41:59 +0000

Greasemonkey is all messed up. I have two user scripts installed but it keeps saying I have none installed and the scripts aren’t working although they clearly show up in the user script management window!

By: Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:49:05 +0000

I love this trick!!!!!! the only problem for me is it doesn’t seem to work on youtube partner videos

By: Sarki Dinle

Sarki Dinle — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:47:27 +0000

THank you , Not all mp4 file can play on iPod or PSP.
I using Tube Explorer, seach, browse, download and convert video in a more easily way.

By: whodathunkit

whodathunkit — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:25:54 +0000

And as of today it has stopped working again. How bizarre.

By: djay

djay — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:19:15 +0000

can’t download it, and i have quicktime pro…
help

By: whodathunkit

whodathunkit — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:26:39 +0000

And of course, that should be “lo and behold.”

By: whodathunkit

whodathunkit — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:54:31 +0000

For whatever reason, ClickToFlash didn’t work for me, so I uninstalled it and resorted to using the YouTube download bookmark, which works like a charm but doesn’t give the option of simply viewing the video in YouTube in an embedded QuickTime player.
Then, low and behold, the old bookmark miraculously started working again yesterday, and is working for me today!
I suspect there was something up at YouTube, and that it’s been corrected.
In any case, let me take this opportunity to thank you for this utterly marvelous bit of software. It is a gem.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:01:55 +0000

It seems like a very small amount of videos will work with this now. Firefox 3.5.2, Windows XP SP3… Help?

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:22:18 +0000

It seems like some reports are coming in of the bookmarklet not working; however I’ve not been able to reproduce this issue, even using the latest Mac OS X. Perhaps there is an issue, but still gathering info at this time. I recommend use of ClickToFlash when possible.

By: whodathunkit

whodathunkit — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:00:17 +0000

You know what? I DID do an update. I installed Apple’s latest security update. Anybody else out there who has suddenly had a problem with this wonderful little bookmark no longer working……did you install that same update?

By: whodathunkit

whodathunkit — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:25:25 +0000

This worked great for me until today. I think YouTube must have changed something, because even videos that in the past have always reloaded perfectly into QuickTime for me now all feature the question mark. I haven’t made any updates lately. Running Safari 3.2.3 on OSX 10.4.11

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:52:17 +0000

I think that something has changed on Youtube – as of today the bookmarklet is broken :(