Ripping from youtube has become increasingly easier, I've set up the following tutorial in such a way that even the most novice user can easily grab something off youtube and upload it here.
Things you need
* browser of your choice, that is it
Step 1
Go to youtube and find a full episode you'd like to bring here (preferably one that isn't here in HD already). I'll be ripping
When keepvid loads paste your youtube link into the field and hit download
Step 4
You might have to download their java applet, its perfectly fine. Once you hit download another menu will drop down and ask you what format you'd like to save it in. select MP4! DO NOT select anything else I'll explain later.
Step 5
You video will be downloading automatically once it has finished you can search for the series/episode information on tvrage and follow our naming guide.
There you have it! no programs just 2 websites and that is all you need.
Notes:
- What vidoes should I grab from youtube?
Pretty much anything as long as its a full video, there are college lessons on there like biology, psychics, etc. full episodes of nova, horizon, etc. I'd gest not grabbing something that we have a HD episode for as we could just grab the HD one which is better quality and make a better SD rip out of it.
- Why only mp4?
mp4 is an a/v container sort of like mkv , so you aren't re-encoding a youtube file which isn't good. It is already compressed as its streaming. I'm not going to get into the technical details of why you shouldn't re-encode a video that is already encoded or streamed for that matter. Just take my advice you don't want to do it.
gest not grabbing something that we have a HD episode for as we could just grab the HD one which is better quality and make a better SD rip out of it.
