Video conversion with DownloadHelper

[Reece]

Hello,

I'm new in mac, so forgive my ignorance in the field ...I browse with Firefox and I installed DownloadHelper to nab the video on youtube . The default download format is flv, I want it to avi or mp4 ... DownloadHelper is supposed to know the make, the prob is that it tells me that the decoder ffmpeg is missing in the directory /usr/bin/ffmpeg . I can not access this directory. I tried downloading ffmegX , but apparently it is another thing. How to download and convert with downloadhelper? Thank you in advance for your help .

[darhsit]

In the Finder menu "Go"-> Go to Folde and you type "/usr/bin" (Shortcut: "apple capital G") on ffmpeg (THE video library), no idea of the appropriate And indeed the old soft ffmpegX has nothing to do here. For info, instead of ffmpeg should not be in /usr/bin/ but in /usr/local/bin, that little word changes.

[Reece]

Thank you for your clarification to me very useful!

Regarding the ffmpeg, in fact it DownloadHelper tells me that I lack the codec for that location.

So which codec to install to resolve this query?

[Chatwin]

Hello, there many online video sites available which allows you to download youtube videos in mp4 format directly, ,means you don't need to implicitly convert them into a mp4 format. Just google for those sites. One i use is clipnabber.com and another one is keepvid.com. There are many more other options also.

[Raiz]

Refer to following threads which can help you on this issue:

Different methods for downloading videos from Youtube
Download youtube videos with Firefox
how can i download videos in any format from web

[Sonya.T]

Go to DownloadHelper website and know which necessory codec you need to download and install. On windows i have installed the k-lite codec and div-x codecs to work with DownloadHelper, i don't know if they are available on MAC. But try to search for them may be you get them for mac or there are other codec choices for mac.