How-To: Download Music Videos from Yahoo Launch with VLC
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Update 10/16: The updated tutorial for download music videos from Yahoo! Launch is here: How-To: Downloading Yahoo! Music Videos with Firefox & VLC.
Update 9/13: How-To: Play WMV files in iTunes [OSX]
Update 9/12: Adam was kind enough to point out that the .WMV extension can be added to the raw file dump from within VLC.
- Copy the mms:// address into the Open Network box. Check the “Advanced Output” box and click “Settings…”
- Cleck the “File” radio button, then check the “Dump Raw Input” box. In the “Encapsulation Method” dropdown menu, select “Raw”.
- Click the “Browse…” button. In the “Save As…” box, enter your desired filename, then add “.wmv”; i.e. filename.wmv. Select a location in which you’d like to save the file, then click “OK”, “OK” again, and “OK” one last time. The stream will dump directly into a WMV.
OK. So I drafted up the previous tutorial for downloading music videos from Yahoo using Flashget yesterday afternoon. After a few hours, I realized that I was not being fair to OSX users. Or any other OS users for that matter. I sat and thought how it might be possible for others to download the same videos from Yahoo. Light bulb! Use VLC! I’ll try to keep this tutorial a little shorter. If you don’t have a copy of the VLC media player, download your copy from here [v0.8.2].
You want to use the same process of identifiying the video ID for whatever music video you want to download. Drop that ID into Stricky’s script (Similar to Stream King’s utility) to find the mms:// URI. Copy the 300K mms:// URI and open up VLC. If you have no clue what I’m talking about concerning the video ID or Stream King, read the previous How-To: Download Music Videos from Yahoo Launch with Flashget.
In VLC go to ‘File’ > ‘Open Network Stream’. Choose HTTP / HTTPS / FTP / MMS and paste the 300K mms:// URI into the empty field. Check the ‘Stream Output’ box and click ‘Settings’.
In the ‘Stream Output’ > ‘Output methods’ preferences, check the ‘File’ and ‘Dump raw output’ box. Next use the ‘Browse’ option to name the file and choose a save path. Click ‘OK’ to return to the previous preference window. Click ‘OK’ once more and VLC will begin downloading the raw file. VLC will look like it’s playing a file. The progress bar which usually shows play time will actually display the download progress. Because we’re downloading the raw output, you’ll need to add the appropriate file extension. Since Yahoo Music uses the .wmv file format, add the .wmv extension to the raw file so you can view the complete 320 x 240 music video in VLC… Or WMP.
I know the screenshots are from a Windows box. Don’t worry. VLC settings are the same across the board for Windows and OSX… And Linux. I figured people prefered options.
