Download help

Post by **Peetee** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:32 pm

I can play embedded vids on sites like Youtube etc but everytime I try to download a vid clip file I loose my internet connection. Why?
Oh and no it hasn't got anything to do with family filters BTW, they're not that sort of movies.

Post by **d_harris** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:49 pm

Yeah right!!

Where are you downloading from?

Post by **Peetee** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:09 am

Well I'm usually picking up links from other sites so...who knows really?
It doesn't flag up any security issues anyway. The last one was this eve. I was following up a link after talking about Napier Deltic engines. It's a realplayer file I downloaded first.

Post by **d_harris** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:21 am

Hmm, sounds rather odd. I would offer to pop round and have a look but not sure I can help. Have you spoken to your ISP about it?

Post by **Mick_Anik** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:53 am

Maybe try using the free "youtube downloader" easily findable on a google search.
I've found it's the best way for me, as I'm on a slowish connection with a monthly MB limit. I don't even have to start the video I want to download. I right-click on the video I want, on the listings page,and left-click 'properties'. Then I copy the url and paste it into "youtube downloader" - actually the programme pastes it in for you as soon as you cover the pasting-in box with the mouse.

If you try it and see '&feature' at the end of the url in 'properties', drop the '&' and anything after it.

A great benefit is that you can quickly build up a list for multiple downloads and put them in a Notepad document, then download them at your leisure. Once you have the urls, you don't even have to have "Youtube" open, which is a great MB saving for people with a monthly limit.