worksforme, firefox on a PC (at work), but I'm pretty sure it worked at home with FF on a Mac as well.

Can I give an answer that doesn't fit the original question? Instead of converting them why not just download them in original form and install VLC media player? It can play EvErYtHiNg you can throw at it and then some. No loss of quality or increase in file size because of conversion.

If that is an acceptable answer then if you use firefox install the VideoDownloadHelper plugin which can create a little greyed out icon on your status bar. When a supported video is detected on the currently active page it will become a colored animated icon where you can download the file.


OTHERWISE install the VideoDownloadHelper and use its built in conversion on the fly ability

Dear Canadian viewers, this Chrome and Firefox extension will allow you to view it (and any US only material like Netflix):

mediahint.com

I get that with Firefox but I don't get those ads with Chrome. I do have the AdBlock Pro extension installed so YMMV...

That's (part) of why I use Firefox with Adblock, Noscript, default block cookies (whitelist when necessary), and even ran that one that lists all the external domains that a page is trying to scuttle off to with allow/disallow for a while. Eventually I got sick of having to allow 10 new domains every time I visited a new page for the first time (or see a video from a new host here on the sift), which was causing me to just give up and load in Chrome rather than stick with it. So now I'm back to just that first set.

However, the thought of somebody running a honeypot operation and generating dummy data for advertisers (or the NSA) to mine makes me cackle with delight....

Hi Lucky,
I need to redownload the Videosift search plugin but keep hitting an error.
Specifically:

Firefox could not download the search plugin from:
http://videosift.com/opensearch

Something to do with the 5.0 upgrade?

I use a userscript called Youtube Center. It allows you to download the videos in mp4, flv, webm and 3gp formats. You need to have Greasemonkey or Scriptish installed on Firefox to use userscripts. I don't know about other browsers.

You'll have to use Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

Then convert using:
http://www.pazera-software.com/

No mobiles-connected through a hard-line o'coaxial-The problems described above occur intermittently and not necessarily all of them at once-

It may have something to do with having viewed several embeds from their thumbnails, I dunno-Looks as if my problem may be on my end...Using Firefox-Haven't tried it in Chrome or Safari or LalalLalLA, though..What's VS 5.0 optimized for or is it??

I had to go to the source page to watch this, using Firefox 19.0.2.
I'm ashamed to admit sometimes that my home state produced Bachmann.

Does not work here or on the source website for me-
U.S./Firefox/PC

Found this one that works but with Muffington Post editorializing after (sucks balls as much as the CNN reporter and Bachmann ignoring each others questions!)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/michele-bachmann-cnn-dana-bash_n_2914819.html

@Grimm

Works for me on the source website, does not work here.

Firefox on Mac if that helps.

H. Jon Benjamin. less "archer" more "coach mcguirk"
https://www.google.com/search?q=jon+benjamin&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=PKV&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=PR4yUdimMcS30QG
A8YHoCQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1260&bih=653

It normally works for me, but It does fail to work if I have a full queue and want to use 2 pp's for an extra slot (firefox, Mac OS X 10.5.8 9L30 but upgrading soon). It seems to work at first, then goes astray on the final 'next' to submit part.

If you just open a new window and copy out the fields that the bookmarklet added, it works in the other window.

I don't normally have 2 pp's, so have only run into this a few times.

Firefox+Noscript dude!