Hi Esther, thank you very much for the detailed discription. That was what I did as well but it didn't work. After your e-mail I tried again and ... ta ta .. now it works fine. Must be your magical impact. ;-)
Dirpy is really great and what I was looking for for a long time. To get a Youtube video in an iPod friendly format is fantastic. Thanks again and all the best Jürgen Am 22.12.2011 um 19:22 schrieb Esther: > Hi Jürgen, > > The option to "Record Video" should appear on the Dirpy screen just after the > option for "Record Audio". If you navigate with VO-Right arrow past the > "Record" button for saving to an mp3 recording at the end of the "Record > Audio" section, just after the announcement of how much space the mp3 > recording will take up, you'll reach the "Record Video" section. Then I hear > VoiceOver announce, "Available Video Qualities", followed by links for "Low - > 240p.flv", "High - 360p.mp4", "High - 360p.flv", and "High - 480p.flv". I > just VO-Space on the link for "High - 360p.mp4" and this downloads > automatically for me. The same thing about not getting a notification that > this has downloaded applies here -- just check your Safari downloads window > or your Downloads folder for the file. As I mentioned earlier, I just toggle > the downloads window to be shown with Command-Option-L, then use Command-` to > switch to this window and check that the file has downloaded. You can > QuickLook play the file by just pressing space bar on the file in Finder. > > If there are difficulties getting the video version, try turning off Safari > extensions in the Safari preferences menu. (Command-comma to bring up > preferences, then navigate to Extensions and VO-Space. There should be a > switch to toggle extensions on and off on the Extensions pane, but you > shouldn't have to do this.) > > The only time I had an error message from the video formats was when I tried > to check the dirpy page from my iPad when I was reading mail. So I suspect > it may have something to do with whether you are allowing Flash content to be > viewed, or have Flash supported on your machine. I haven't had problems with > this page on my Mac, but I do have support for Flash content. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Dec 20, 2011, at 23:19, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > >> Hi Esther, >> >> as always: your hints are totally helpfull. Thanks for this. :-) >> >> I didn't manage to download a you tube video from http://dirpy.com/. To save >> it in mp3 worked fine. Could you please provide me with the stepps I have to >> do to get it as a video? >> >> I copied the link in the field and the edit fields were filled in correctly. >> So far so good. But when I pressed record it downloads an mp3 version of the >> video. Below all the edit fields there were three possible video formats. >> But when I clicked on one of them a new window opened and an error message >> apeared. >> >> Thanks for your help and >> all the best >> Jürgen >> >> Am 20.12.2011 um 22:16 schrieb Esther: >> >>> Hi Jürgen, Jessica, and Others, >>> >>> I answered Gerry's original post asking for an accessible YouTube to mp3 >>> converter with the suggestion that he try the dirpy web site: >>> http://dirpy.com/ >>> This site doesn't have the limitation of http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ in >>> converting videos that they must be less than 20 minutes. It also allows >>> you to either paste in a YouTube URL or type in search terms to find a >>> video for conversion at the YouTube site, choose conversion formats (audio >>> and video), input MP3 tags (if you choose this format) or accept the >>> defaults, specify start and stop times for the conversion, and other >>> features. The only thing that's disconcerting about the process is that >>> the conversion happens very fast and automatically downloads without >>> notification. Just keep your Safari downloads window open (by either >>> choosing "Downloads" under the "Window" menu of the Safari menu bar, or >>> else by using the Command-Option-L shortcut for this). Then you can switch >>> application windows with Command-accent to check for the downloaded file. >>> >>> You can read their FAQ about why they feel their site is better than other >>> YouTube converters: >>> http://dirpy.com/faq#whybetter >>> >>> HTH. Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> On Dec 18, 2011, at 22:13, Jürgen Fleger wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Angela, >>>> >>>> but it's just for Windows as far as I could tell. Do you know a similar >>>> solution for the Mac? Also: Am I right that it just extracts the audio of >>>> a you tube video? >>>> >>>> Is anyone aware of a solution to download the video from you tube. I was >>>> used to use Safari itself for that purpose. But since Safari 5 it doesn't >>>> work anymore. >>>> >>>> All the best >>>> Jürgen >>>> Am 18.12.2011 um 22:16 schrieb Angela Delicata: >>>> >>>>> try Songr; it's easy to use.. >>>>> >>>>> Hope that helps. >>>>> Angela from Italy. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> “Non ho mai incontrato un uomo cosě ignorante dal quale non abbia potuto >>>>> imparare qualcosa”. (Galileo Galilei). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jessica >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 6:45 PM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: accessible youtube to mp3 converter >>>>> >>>>> Do you know if there is software available that will download the vidio >>>>> itself? I've done google searches, but couldn't seem to find much. >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: Nektarios Mallas <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:23 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: accessible youtube to mp3 converter >>>>> >>>>> Hello. >>>>> Go to. >>>>> www.youtube-mp3.org >>>>> works great. >>>>> >>>>> Nektarios. >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 4, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Gerry Cook wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> hi everyone can anybody tell me an accessible youtube to mp3 >>>>> converter for lion. I've tried fastest youtube to mp3 converter, but its >>>>> not >>>>> accessible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Gerry Cook >>>>> cheers gerry >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
