Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, Freeware
TubeTV 1.0
It would seem that the Mac OS X development spectrum is bursting with excellent freeware applications. TubeTV is one such freeware application that fills a void that many Mac-YouTube users have -- saving videos in a Mac compatible format for later viewing (there are some paid alternatives out there, such as Tubesock but TubeTV is free, and offers up some additional features).TubeTV features a built-in web browser that allows you to surf over to your favorite video sharing websites. When you are viewing the video you want to download for later, just click the little download button in the toolbar. The video will begin downloading and then covert to your specified format on-the-fly. TubeTV uses the free Perian to convert the videos to either iPod, AppleTV, iPhone, or a standard phone format. When I used it, the software was spot-on. It downloaded the video very quickly and converted a 3 minute video to iPod format in well under a minute. The great thing about TubeTV is that you aren't limited to using only YouTube, you can use it with other flash-based video sites as well. I tried it with Viddler, and it worked as advertised. The video quality is also excellent.
TubeTV can be downloaded from the developers website for $0.00 in all currencies (however, donations are accepted).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Craig said 10:10AM on 2-11-2008
hmmm,,, just wondering. Would this work with BBC iplayer online flash streaming?
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matthew said 10:27AM on 2-11-2008
"It would seem that the Mac OS X development spectrum is bursting with excellent freeware applications."
That's funny.
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David Oswald said 11:57AM on 2-11-2008
The best and cheapest way is to visit the website, open the activity, alt+doubleklick the biggest file and then reencode this flashfile in iSquint (or if you spare 19 Dollars) the better VisualHub
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Hard of Hearing said 4:37PM on 2-11-2008
David is right. Safari's Activity window is your friend. (And it's completely free, too.)
bojinka said 12:51PM on 2-11-2008
Sorry to say, my experience with YouTube was that the first several seconds of the video stream was corrupted; such that I would hear audio for about 10 seconds, but the video was a frozen image of a frame about 10 seconds into the clip. Once the audio "catches up" to that point in the file, the video will play.
I hope this gets fixed. On the other hand, QTPro plays these particular flash movies in their native format just fine. . .
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