How to Download Videos from Youku, Pandora etc.

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Do you mean videos with passwords?
There is a method, although the instructions are in Japanese.

Or how you have to befriend them?[/quote:381ahvlx]

No the instructions are pretty straightforward (cheers for google translate!), the videos are just private. Not password locked as far as I can see, just require you to befriend the uploader.

Follow this to become friends with peeps on youku bro.

http://jburogu-godzillaradio.blogspot.c ... -make.html

Ahh wait, just read that you’re having problems because the user isn’t active.
Yeah, don’t know how to figure that one out yet.

Well I suppose that post I just did might be useful to some other people.

Yeah I’m sure it’ll be useful. Some good channels that require you to Friend Request unfortunately. I friended JTVall too using some basic instructions on D-Addicts heh, but your instructions has pictures and is more detailed which is great. :)
Where you say "Click to Accept" I can’t click that, it’s just plain text, I guess that means I already accepted or something, been awhile so I can’t even remember. :rofl:

[quote="soudou":1p2ho8a4]Yeah I’m sure it’ll be useful. Some good channels that require you to Friend Request unfortunately. I friended JTVall too using some basic instructions on D-Addicts heh, but your instructions has pictures and is more detailed which is great. :)
Where you say "Click to Accept" I can’t click that, it’s just plain text, I guess that means I already accepted or something, been awhile so I can’t even remember. :rofl:[/quote:1p2ho8a4]

Yeah, once you click it, it becomes unclickable because you already accepted.
Exactly what you said heh :)

Just a tip about downloading from Youku after everything became "Mainland China Only". I was using WantYoutube + JDownloader but recently WantYoutube has been failing for me sometimes (might be my browser and the Java). I came across [url=http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=10134:16sa9gbc]this thread on another forum[/url:16sa9gbc] and the solution the thread-maker found seems to be working for me.

Basically:
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[:16sa9gbc] Check this website for a working Chinese proxy: http://spys.ru/free-proxy-list/CN/[/:m:16sa9gbc]
[:16sa9gbc] In JDownloader go to the Settings tab and to Basics > Download and Connections > Internet Network[/:m:16sa9gbc]
[:16sa9gbc] Tick Use Proxy and put in the proxy IP (the numbers before the : ) and the port (the number after the : )[/:m:16sa9gbc]
[:16sa9gbc] Go to the LinkGrabber tab and it’ll say JDownloader needs to restart, do so.[/:m:16sa9gbc]
[:16sa9gbc] Now JDownloader is working via a Chinese proxy, go to Youku and copy the video URL. JDownloader will pick it up in the LinkGrabber tab. (If nothing happens, you may need to use a different proxy)[/:m:16sa9gbc]
[:16sa9gbc] Select to continue with the package you want (e.g. HD or non-HD) and it’ll go to the Download tab.[/:m:16sa9gbc]
[:16sa9gbc] In Settings, untick Use a Proxy and restart JDownloader. Then hit the Start button to re-activate your downloads. You can now download the videos without a proxy (the proxy is just to bypass the link-grabbing block).[/:m:16sa9gbc][/list:u:16sa9gbc]

The speed is slow for me but if you right click on the package heading in the Download tab and select "Force Download" it’ll initialize all segments at once. This way at least all the parts can download at the same time making it quicker. After that you can use Andy’s FLV Joiner to join the parts into 1 video.

Hope it helps!

[quote="soudou":2u4utfk6]Hope it helps![/quote:2u4utfk6]

soudou, it works and it helps! thanks a lot :bow:

[quote="sebas-chan":yl6unhf6]soudou, it works and it helps! thanks a lot :bow:[/quote:yl6unhf6]

Glad it helped! :)

All the recent changes to Youtube seems to of made it so many software/sites like JDownloader, KeepVid etc. can’t grab higher quality than 360p. I think I read its due to them splitting higher res videos up. Hopefully they can update to work with Youtube’s new system.

For now I’ve had to get a different program called FreeMake Video Downloader

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_downloader/

As their news section says, they’ve made it so the software can still download high quality Youtube videos:

http://www.freemake.com/news/download_y ... 080p_again

But when you install it make sure to tick "Custom Installation" at each stage, then untick the other stuff it wants to install (browser junk). Make sure you just install the Freemake software and its browser addon since I don’t know if the rest is malware. Anyway it seems to work well, but it’s a real resource hog when videos get to 100% downloaded, I guess its merging the video. Bit of a pain when you want to download a ton of HQ videos.

So yeah it works OK for now, but hopefully other software finds a way to work again with less resource hogging.

If you update Jdownloader, the problem with download Youtube videos is fixed now. You can download again videos in High Quality ;)

[quote="Arlekin":3vqwva81]If you update Jdownloader, the problem with download Youtube videos is fixed now. You can download again videos in High Quality ;)[/quote:3vqwva81]

Hm I’m using JDownloader 2 Beta, it updated and it’ll download Youtube videos but not 480 - 1080p. I think JDownloader team have only fixed it so you can download standard Youtube videos.

There’s a thread on the JDownloader forum discussing it and recently the staff reccomended people use other software like Freemake until they can fix it. :(

[quote:3vqwva81]
[b:3vqwva81][i:3vqwva81]pspzockerscene (14.11.2013, 18:03) - JD Supporter, Plugin Dev. & Community Manager[/i:3vqwva81][/b:3vqwva81]
Tested userscripts.org, tested video download helper, tested Flashgot.
Doesn’t work!

GreeZ pspzockerscene
[b:3vqwva81]EDIT

The following 2 programms download youtube 1080p videos without any problems:
dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm
freemake.com/free_video_downloader/
Warning: Make sure you don’t install their included Adware![/b:3vqwva81]
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http://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=48894

Their bug tracker page says their progress towards being able to grab 1080p Youtube videos is 80% currently though, so here’s hoping a patch will come up soon:

http://svn.jdownloader.org/issues/9958 - 1080p

Other Youtube-related bug reports (I guess they’ll be cleared once 1080p is possible):

http://svn.jdownloader.org/issues/10113 - 480p http://svn.jdownloader.org/issues/10211 - General HQ http://svn.jdownloader.org/issues/10120 - General Youtube Issues

That’s weird. I could not download any videos from Youtube and i search the problem and i read that in the forum. So, one day Jdownloader said that there is some updates availables. I install the updates and fix the problem. I have the 0.9.581 version and i just download in 720p. That’s weird :|

Ah I see, that is odd. I’d of thought JDownloader 2 Beta would have the latest updates, especially since the staff keep reccomending people in that thread download it if they want to be able to download Youtube videos :^) Oh well, I’m sure it’ll all be patched across the board soon. :)

For downloading videos from Youtube, Nicovideo, FC2 Video and other popular video sites , I personally find Houlo Video Downloader better because it allows you to convert videos to lots of formats.

http://houlo.com/houlo-video-downloader ;)

Hey all,

Does anyone know of an easy way to download videos from MioMio TV? It seems to be getting used more often these days for uploading Japanese TV shows but JDownloader doesn’t seem to recognise it.

http://www.miomio.tv/fun/variety/

What about [b:3ogvw03k]Replay Media Catcher[/b:3ogvw03k]?? It suppose to record any video from any player. I used once and it works for some god forsaken russian site. Is kind of hard to use, but you can watch some Youtube tutorials to learn.
I could try it myself to be sure that it works, but I don’t have the program instaled :( Sorry. Anyway, good look with that

[b:3ogvw03k]EDIT: [/b:3ogvw03k] Dude!! It works!! Look!!

[img:3ogvw03k]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-CIzYb5qbmyU/VDhs8oIlbII/AAAAAAAABGA/Wvcl-0PZmi0/w974-h550-no/mio%2Bmio.jpg[/img:3ogvw03k]

Do you want the software??

I tried DownloadHelper extension, but it seems that the videos are stored as 10m chunks, so you can download the first 10 minutes and I suppose that if you move the cursor past the 10m mark you should get a link for the next 10m

But the download is sloooooooooow and having to download it like this seems awful.

[quote="Arlekin":eghwvn9d]What about [b:eghwvn9d]Replay Media Catcher[/b:eghwvn9d]?? It suppose to record any video from any player. I used once and it works for some god forsaken russian site. Is kind of hard to use, but you can watch some Youtube tutorials to learn.
[b:eghwvn9d]EDIT: [/b:eghwvn9d] Dude!! It works!! Look!!
Do you want the software??[/quote:eghwvn9d]

Ah cool. I’ll give it a go. Though if it’s just recording as you watch then would a screen capture software do the same thing?

[quote="Knudow":eghwvn9d]I tried DownloadHelper extension, but it seems that the videos are stored as 10m chunks, so you can download the first 10 minutes and I suppose that if you move the cursor past the 10m mark you should get a link for the next 10m. But the download is sloooooooooow and having to download it like this seems awful.[/quote:eghwvn9d]

I see, yeah it does seem like a bit of an annoying site. Just a shame FC2 deletes content so fast, sometimes this MioMio site is the only place left with an intact upload because its not popular enough to be targeted yet :rofl:

[quote="soudou":3bzygye2]Though if it’s just recording as you watch then would a screen capture software do the same thing?[/quote:3bzygye2]

Nope. Captures the flv or mp4 from the site. I just downloaded a few videos from your MioMio. You just need to turn "on" the catcher and then open the video…I’m not even pressing "play" and the catcher shows me the video and the options for download and convert if I want to.

Ohh that sounds perfect then. I’ll definitely try that, especially as I find it difficult to even play most the videos on this junky site heh. Will shoot you a PM.

No problem pal. I hope you can use this. You’re like a Mother Teressa for this site :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Always helping people…even if the question is really stupid, so I’m glad that for once, I can help you out :talk: :talk: :hai: