As I said earlier, I’ve been experimenting with programs to save Youtube streams to my computer for future watching. Most of the websites I went to looked rather fishy and/or buggy, so eventually I just went to download.com and got the first sensible-looking program there, the appropriately-titled Youtube Downloader 2.1.6. Works like a charm, it does. And interface is as bland and simple as anything, just the way I like it. You end up with .flv files (Flash Video) which Windows Media Player can play with the right codecs. I don’t remember installing any codecs specifically for flash video, but I guess CCCP comes with them because they play just fine.
For my first experiment I got part 1 and part 2 of The Rock’s anti-Toronto promo, his very best promo in my opinion. He always was better as a heel, anyway. Some things need to be preserved for posterity and not left to the whims of Youtube’s capricious operators. Now I can watch it whenever I want. Like, right now.
More relevant to my Japanese-learning ambitions: interviews with J-pop and J-rock stars. Youtube has a lot of clips from morning programs, Music Station and Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ, so I’m getting lots of those for now. T. M. Revolution~~~~~~~!
And that’s all for today.
