Digitivity » video http://digitivity.org The Digital Productivity Blog Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 SaveTube: How to Download YouTube Videos Without Java http://digitivity.org/1159/savetube-how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-java http://digitivity.org/1159/savetube-how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-java#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:30:00 +0000 Digitivity http://digitivity.org/1159/savetube-how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-java Posted in Links

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It’s a big annoyance trying to save YouTube videos. Why would you want to save one? Well for one thing, it can be a lot more convenient to play it from a desktop multimedia player. For some users it takes up less CPU than the browser-based Flash player, important for phone users. Finally, if a [...] Related posts:
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]]> It’s a big annoyance trying to save YouTube videos. Why would you want to save one? Well for one thing, it can be a lot more convenient to play it from a desktop multimedia player. For some users it takes up less CPU than the browser-based Flash player, important for phone users. Finally, if a video’s important to you, it’s good to be able to have a local copy before YouTube bans it for some or another reason.

SaveTube is a really easy way to download YouTubes. You just add a bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, click on it, and you get a download link allowing you to directly download the video in various formats. No Java, no going to another website to perform the download.

http://savetu.be/

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]]> http://digitivity.org/1159/savetube-how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-java/feed 8 Will Conan O’Brien Move to the Web After Getting Dumped by NBC? http://digitivity.org/630/will-conan-obrien-move-to-the-web-internet-after-getting-dumped-by-nbc http://digitivity.org/630/will-conan-obrien-move-to-the-web-internet-after-getting-dumped-by-nbc#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:26:56 +0000 Digitivity http://digitivity.org/?p=630 Posted in Digital Life

So who needs a time slot? After being pushed out by NBC to make room for Jay Leno, what will Conan O’Brian do next? How about a radical move of going web-only? That’s what the New York Times Bits Blog surmises. With the $40 million dollar settlement, I think it’s certainly a possibility. (OK, much [...] Related posts:
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]]> So who needs a time slot?

After being pushed out by NBC to make room for Jay Leno, what will Conan O’Brian do next?

How about a radical move of going web-only?

That’s what the New York Times Bits Blog surmises.

With the $40 million dollar settlement, I think it’s certainly a possibility. (OK, much of that money is for his show’s staff, but he still has enough so that he doesn’t have to work.) He has enough money to pursue ventures that may or may not immediately pay off. And YouTube offers revenue sharing.

And for those who say people don’t want to watch TV on a small screen. Ahem. That’s mostly old people who say that. Anybody born after the IBM PC seems to be just fine with watching YouTube clips on a 320×480 cellphone screen.

If Conan does go to a web-only format, I think that could do a lot to change the way entertainment is sent to viewers anymore.

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]]> http://digitivity.org/630/will-conan-obrien-move-to-the-web-internet-after-getting-dumped-by-nbc/feed 4 How to synchronize audio and video in VLC http://digitivity.org/12/how-to-synchronize-audio-and-video-in-vlc http://digitivity.org/12/how-to-synchronize-audio-and-video-in-vlc#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:15:46 +0000 Digitivity http://www.digitivity.org/?p=12 Posted in HowToPower User

Sometimes, a video’s audio isn’t synchronized with video for some reason or another. To sync audio and video on the fly in VLC: In VLC 0.9.4: press Ctrl+k to increase delay, and Ctrl+l to decrease delay. In VLC 0.8.6: press k to increase delay, and j to decrease delay. That’s without holding Ctrl. If you [...] Related posts:
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]]> Sometimes, a video’s audio isn’t synchronized with video for some reason or another. To sync audio and video on the fly in VLC:

  • In VLC 0.9.4: press Ctrl+k to increase delay, and Ctrl+l to decrease delay.
  • In VLC 0.8.6: press k to increase delay, and j to decrease delay. That’s without holding Ctrl.

If you decrease delay below 0, you will then be, in effect, delaying the video.

Each press of the key combinations changes delay by 50 ms.

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