extracting from you-tube?
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1. In Safari open up a YouTube video. Once it starts playing, in Safari's application bar click on Window > Activity. This shows you what resources the page is accessing.
2. At this point you used to be able to just find the biggest resource file and that would be the video. But now YouTube buffers in separated chunks. No matter. Find a series of very long URLs in a row that begin in a similar fashion to this: http://r10.lhr14s13.c.youtube.co…... You'll notice a new one appears every few seconds. That's YouTube downloading in separate chunks.
3. Single click on one of these long URLs and hit Command+C. Then paste that (Command+V) into Safari's address bar. At the end of this long URL you will see parameters for "begin" and "len" (short for "length"). Just delete those parameters from the URL and hit enter. You'll notice you are now downloading the full video as an FLV file. Congratulations.
Hmm... Maybe I'll post this on Stewdio later. Seems like useful info.