Dependent on Youtube videos for Altium - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Faringdon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2023, 10:07:11 am
content: Hi,I depend on seeing youtube videos to teach me Altium.But i only have a laptop.And i cannot watch youtube when not connected to the internet.How can i somehow download the youtube videos to my laptop?...so that i can watch them when i am not connected to the internet.The Youtube premium service offers downloads, but only to an App which is only available to people with smartphones.(I do not have a smartphone, since their screens simply arent big enough)Youtube is not clear about this.

author: jc101
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2023, 12:58:12 pm
content: Have you heard of Google? Just google the questions and take your pick of the many, many solutions out there to do this.If this is legal or correct is a different question, but technically no problem at all.

author: Faringdon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2023, 01:40:18 pm
content: Thanks yes i googled it.....but youtube says this is illegal....as such, i wonder if many of these "youtube download" sites are going to put virus's on the laptop?Do you know which "youtube download to laptop" site is safe to use?...Years ago, i used to use one with a special icon "YTD"...but i cant find that one any more.....and in any case, i remember that it didnt always download all youtube videos....sometimes it just woudlnt download them....i also need quite high quality resolution...because the Altium videos have very small text on them.

author: jc101
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2023, 01:45:55 pm
content: All the ones I've used before download a video file. Anything downloaded from the internet has the potential of nasties, so your standard protection methodologies should apply. Don't use anything that requires you to download an app.You could also, very cheaply, purchase access to a course that permits you to download video tutorials. All legal and above board, and probably a more consistent teaching style throughout the whole course too.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 02, 2023, 01:16:01 am
content: I use 4K video downloader, but there are web based ones.Also if you have Youtube Premium you can download later to watch offline.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2023, 05:07:46 am
content: If you are comfortable with CLI:yt-dlp. It’s an actively maintained fork ofyoutube-dl.As for legality: Alphabet is absolutely unhappy about this both because this way they can’t obtain personal data to sell, and also record/publishing industry gets angry if they do not get maximum possible control. But so far Alphabet did not sue any user for breaching the contract. As for criminal charges, it depends on your local law and legal culture — you would need to consult a local lawyer, not some random people on the internet.

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2023, 05:26:12 am
content: The youtube downloader sites are perfectly fine. Or you can also download some programs that do the same. You can also get Chrome or Firefox extensions that add a download button onto youtube videos. They all mostly work by extracting a direct URL to a mp4 video file (Since it is right there on googles servers, youtube just doesn't expose a download link for it)Tho these methods typically get you a lower quality version of the video in 720p, since this mp4 format is a legacy backwards compatibility thing. Youtube uses a different format that is grabbed piece by piece and then assembled on the fly, so it can't be downloaded as a file(or at least without conversion).Youtube doesn't exactly encourage people to download videos, but you will never get in trouble for it. People do this all the time, including youtubers (How else do you think they put in spinets of other peoples videos into theirs when for example commenting on them).

author: mengfei
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2023, 05:48:51 am
content: tryhttps://tubemate.net/w3/

author: Lindley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2023, 04:18:10 pm
content: Also use the Free 4k VD , very easy to use.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2023, 09:29:31 am
content: Quote from: Berni on July 03, 2023, 05:26:12 amYouTube offers pre-muxed versions in MP4 containers. They are always h264+AAC and indeed video resolution is limited to 720p. But it also serves both h264 and VP9 over DASH, both in the same resolution, along with Opus and AAC for audio (also over DASH). yt-dlp (similar to youtube-dl) can obtain these with no issues, and produce the corresponding WebM file. They can also serve as backends for mpv for live watching, though this is beyond this topic.