This might just be me but I think after step 2 once you have got the video playing and have got the link by goin to Properties it is easier to download it using something like Net Transport.
I’m not saying VLC is not a good player but its just easier the other way.

Are you on a Mac or PC Dylan?

They don’t come any bigger than that.

I am using a PC.

If you want to turn them into .MOV files just download Quicktime 7 pro. Open the file and export them using the “to iPod” selection and put it on your desktop, then you can open the file in itunes.

Ok, figured, but you said “ergh umm “freeâ€Â? alternatives”. Im not mad, I knew to do that, I had ergh “Bought” Quicktime 6, but alas, it didnt work. Well, let’s hope you do find some “ergh umm “freeâ€Â? alternatives”

I dont know, but Im doing the same thing, and it still works…

Did you restart Firefox to complete installation?

I did restart Firefox. I even restarted the computer. But still no luck. Please help … I need my music videos!!!

Dise- try making sure that your Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox is working properly. That sounds as though it is the problem. There is a guide here that should help you out with that. Good luck.

Dise, if PKLaunch is opening a window, then it’s doing it’s job. You’re getting a white window because either your Window Media Player plugin isn’t working, or you don’t even have it installed on your system. Focus on WMP, not Firefox.

just an advice to Mac Users, if you dont want to get the error Netscape bla bla message please do this:

1. go to the Artist and click on the watch tv icon
2. click on the photo of the artist

for instance if you go to top 100 and click on the link for the video, chances are high, it wont work and you are get the netscape message, at least this way works on my mac and on the mac users i have told them.

There is a quicker way that bypasses Steps 3 and 4, just right-click on the video of the windows media player itself inside that windows that pops up, and slect ‘Properties’ then copy the uri next to ‘Location:’

When i get the URL, the big long URL with .asx at the very end doesnt seem to play. It doesnt play in windows media player or in VLC.So if it doesnt play in VLC, its not gona download. anyone know why its not playing?

Never mind I got it working. Thanks Alot for this :)
But as I live in the UK I can’t watch some of the videos so could someone in the US give me the mms links to Boxcar racer videos here:
http://music.yahoo.com/ar-292428-downloads–Box-Car-Racer
thanks, if you dont have time to do all of the just do I feel so…thanks so much!

Why don’t the morons at yahoo just get with the times? It’s so embarrassing!

GREAT. Thanks Derek for the links, ive been trying to get these for ages.

Works perfect :D

To those getting “Auth Failed”: you have to past the ASX uri’s into VLC rather quickly. I tried saving severa; “medialog.txt” files for various videos thinking that i could just go back later and download them- but it doesn’t work. I don’t know if Yahoo has dynamic link changing or something like that, but it seems that the ASX uri in “Medialog.txt” only works for about 2 minutes or less. All I can say is try to get the ASX address pasted into VLC as quickly as possible.

Yeahh very cool. Thank you!!!!

I’m having trouble with the white window now too. I was able to download five videos and then after noticing that my computer was slowing down (checking task manager, firefox was hounding 100+MB) I restarted it. Big mistake since I now only get the white screen ontop of the Bitrate dropdown.

Checked to make sure mplayer plays other wmv streaming files. No luck with the music.yahoo.com files though. Help please.

Anyone think of doing this for AOL Music Videos?

Grease monkey has just been updated to work in firefox beta 2, but for somereason, it does not allow you to download vids, it brings up the same message Tyler has.
I have PKlaunch installed and enabled but still nothing. Does it work for anyone else?

derek: it said that PKLaunch user script was installed successfully. im using firefox beta 1.
i wanna rip these so i can put them on my ipod

yea it’s not working for me either :-( it says “the link could not be saved. the web page might have been removed or had its name changed”

(it removed my img tags) here is the direct link

http://70.181.193.32:8080/is300gte/hosting/mozilla1.jpg

I get this….

ERROR

We’re sorry, but you must use Netscape 4.7x to use this application on a Macintosh. Download NOW.

Please use the following error code when writing to Yahoo! Help. (Error Code: 4)

looks like the new version of pklaunch (v0.6rc2) still not playing the videos. anyone got it working?

How about a link to said “user-agent”

Where should I Put Greasemonkey & PK Launch

wwooohoo… the new version of pklaunch fixed the problem. hopefully yahooo won’t change their coding too fast

Listen guys, Yahoo has changed some crap so the script has to be changed, to get the latest script go to this site:

http://www.pooyak.com/p/pklaunch/

Install the latest script and everything should be fine again.

Pogo;
is there any way to get “mediaHash”, “mh” in PHP?
I mean; by going which url you get “mh” variable?

thanks
Tom

I got music authentication problem before too, works for me after I install user switcher. The first time it didn’t work either. Then I tried on a different computer, and it worked. I don’t know why. I guess you have to do reinstall or some thing.

In step #3 you will have to right click near the bottom of VLC player to get the information.

hey everbody it works all you have to do is just download new update for pklaunch http://www.pooyak.com/p/pklaunch/ then follow the steps but when the video plays just right click and hit properties then on first page you see location copy that and use vcl normal way to find the mms and to download it and please please make sure you sign in for yahoo or it will not work and believe me it works and i hope you understand this

I successfully ripped a few videos using these procedures (OSX+Flip4Mac). But recently, when I rip a video, I only get the first two or three seconds of the video. Whether I open the video in WMP, QT, or iTunes, I get the same result - a few seconds of video and then nothing. Any suggestions?

Thanks for developing such a well-documented, useful procedure!

Yeah I believe today is the 4th I am trying to do this I have got all the way to the save as but it says that the site isn’t there or its name was changed is there a newer version then: 0.5.3? It seems like fuc*ing yahoo is thirsty to not let us do this. You know that MTV and BET and all these places get the shit for free its for advertisement reasons? They need to just give it to us Damn!

this method does not seem to work anymore, yahoo might be blocking us or something. the asx file no longer contains the stream, now it contains a “stream abusing” message..

This setup still works, here’s what I did. For Users who cant play videos in firefox.
For XP users (Quick Setup)
1. Install Greasemonkey
2. Install pkLaunch v0.6rc3
3. Go to music.yahoo.com (Hint: You don’t need to login because the script logs you in as “zcoderz”)
4. If you can’t get the popup window refresh your browser until you’re login as “zcoderz”.
5. It’s okay if your video screen is black or white just right click on Bandwidth > View Page Info > Media (tab) > Save As > medialog.txt
6. Open the file and copy link, Open VLC press CTRL+N, click radio button HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS paste URL in “OPEN” field.
7. Open playlist then right click on Time Block (ie. (-0:04:18)) select Info.
8. CTRL+C (We’re copying the URI link)
9. Bring VLC Player to focus press CTRL+N, paste in URL
10. Check Stream Output then click on Stream
11. Check File > Dump Raw Input > Pick a place to save your video with extention *.wmv (ie C:\My Music\Gary Allen - Best I Ever Had.wmv)
12. You wont see any video when it’s dumping all you have to do is wait for the VLC Player to finish playing the file then you’re done.

Have fun.

Instead of This
It’s okay if your video screen is black or white just right click on Bandwidth > View Page Info > Media (tab) > Save As > medialog.txt

if you right click the black screen and goto properties you can copy the asx location there

saves a little bit of time

Am I the only one who cannot get this to work anymore? I have tried the old method, Tweter’s new suggestion and Tom’s way. No luck. Any ideas?

Ok guys… Now no imbedded WMP videos will play on ANY website I go to on firefox or IE (example: http://www.big-boys.com). I uninstalled VLC and all the extensions. Even reinstalled WMP and Firefox. Nothhing is working! HELP!

Josh, dude seriously, it was never to just watch the videos from the website, finnish the steps to download the video then you can watch it. You didn’t even try to finnish the tutorial or bother to read the posts.

It is recognizing the file as a text file not a video/asf

Yep, not working anymore…and dont try to bash me, ive downloaded my share of videos, it USED to work.

i can’t even download pkLaunch v0.6rc3 or Install Greasemonkey because they are unknown programs. i have java script aready installed on my pc something could be terribly wrong with the programs. also when i install firefox it just brings me to mozilla firefox search engine. please someone help me i need my daily dose of music video medicine.

When I downloaded everything the first time, it worked. After a couple of days, however, I could not play or download any wmv or wma files on an internet browser (Firefox and IE). It says WMP cannot play the file. Can someone help me?

It’s working now, but I don’t have the drop down menu with the pop up window :(

I don’t get the time thing in VCL.
I just got the mms address and it doesn’t download anything :(

PS i konw yall have absolutely no responsebility but any help at all would be nice :-D

This doesn’t work… Have anybody be able to download yahoo videos as of Nov 22… Is there any other way to download the videos?

it works for me

Does any one else get a ” 0 ” in the text document where the adress should be after completing step 3?

you guys need to follow directions..it works fine

I think im having the same issue as Nijim. followed the directions perfectly-even got a couple of vids already. those will play but if i try to download another one, it wont finish downloading. it will stay frozen on the last second - ex: 0:04:01/0:04:01. does anyone know why it could be doin this??

This method worked fine for me today and yesterday. I am able to get the mms with no problem and all the files will play. The only problem I have now is that no media files will play in the firefox browser itself, even ones that worked before. I even uninstalled greasemonkey and pklaunch, but still no luck. Oh well. I guess I’ll have to use the dreaded internet explorer to do that stuff.

Oh, is the vlc media player capable of recording rtsp streaming quicktime files? I don’t think so, so could anyone recommend a good program for that?

Katherine, VLC player is capable of capturing realtime streams (RTSP) just use the RTSP uri box instead of the HTTP or MMS boxes when you click ‘Open Network Stream’
you will of course have to get the RTSP URi for the file you want.

It still works, while downloading using vlc it shows no video/audio but when its done, open ir in wmp and it plays with video.

well Unknowndude, greasemonkey v0.6.3 doesnt work for firefox v1.5. However, im pretty sure they released a newer version by now that works with the new version of firefox

I am having trouble installing PKLaunch. I right click and there is no option for Install User Script and I’ve also opened it and clicked on Tools and there is no Install User Script option either. Anybody know how I can install it? I have already installed Greasemonkey.

I have downloaded Firefox, Grease Monkey and have “Installed user script” of pkLaunch as mentioned in Step 1. I use Win XP. After signing into radio.yahoo.com and selecting videos of artists, i clicked on the watch icon. A new wondow opens with the message:
To use this application with Netscape, you must use version 7.1 or above. Download now.

Please use the following error code when writing to Yahoo! Help. (Error Code: 12)

Does anyone know why this is coming up, inspite of the fact that Grease monkey is enabled? Derek, i think you have solved this problem before, haven’t you?

I recently found another website (http://zeo.unic.net.my/2005/12/10/accessing-yahoo-music-with-firefox-part-3/) trying to resolve this same problem, and their answer involved using the FF extension “IE-tab”. I have FF 1.5 and the most recent version of the extension (1.0.6.4) and Launch has been working fine.

Incase you don’t like the IE-tab idea, pkLaunch’s author’s website (http://www.pooyak.com/p/pklaunch/) says, as of Dec 1st, that the next version of the script, that actually works with FF 1.5 and greasemonkey, is essentially ready, just a couple minor bugs that are getting worked out.

It’s because Yahoo keeps changing stuff and you can’t get PKlaunch for 1.5 yet.

How do you do it with ie-tab?

damn i wish he’d come out with the new pklaunch soon - i wanted to put music videos on my friends ipod before i gave it to him for chirstmas

i tried downloading greasemonkey, but it always to me to check my security settings. i have allowed it to download but it still tells me to check my security settings. can anyone help

i dont understand a single thing. its just too confusing. can anyone get me a really clear video of avenged sevenfold - bat country? it doesnt matter if the file is big. as long as the video is really clear.
thanks.

it keeps asking me for a username and password and even my yahoo login wont work help plz…….

Yeah i had that .htaccess pw prompt problem. U just clear your cookies and relogin. But there’s another problem with hijacking sessions because the Pklaunch script uses predefined cookies, and the url session ids. While downloading music videos i kept accidentally hijacking someones yahoo session. Someone with more intel on this topic should be able to fabricate some kind of exploit for this problem.

Now, when I click a video it asks me for a user name and password and I can’t download the medialog file.

The new updates to Pk works fine. It seems that the only videos that can be captured are the ones on the yahoo “Top 100″. When I try to specifically search for a video not on the list; I get referenced to another yahoo site “launchtoday.launch.yahoo.com” where it will ask for a username/password. However, I can see this same video just fine in IE.

For some reason I can view videos that I can find from navigating the site, but when I go to an artist page or search, I cannot download the video.

I can’t get the VLC..I went to the website above and it’s already removed..anyone got any idea? or can u give me the file? Thnks

FernyB The Greatest Thanks!!!!! Hope it will be working more than a one week)))

nevermind guys, i figured it out

nevermind, i figured out how to do it without using the menu. for those of you who are wondering, you just need to right click something below the video, and Page Info is an option there.

ok nvm - i guess it was just a problem with the video i was trying to download, because it worked when i tried a different one - AWESOME

Wow, LYfox works wonderfully.

um is anyone having trouble with this?
lyfox is also not working, due to the fact that they changed their url to their videos…

lyfox works great, but when I download the video using VLC, it saves the video fine. When I play it back undisturbed it runs fine, but if I try to skip into the movie it freezes. I also tried to load it into virtual dub and it gave an error. Any Ideas on how to fix this?

I was so excited when i saw it and I tried it first time, but the last step doesn’t work. I put the MMS into the playlist in VLS but it doesn’t download anything. In Message it says :
cd debug: trying .cue file: dalwmod039.bcst.yahoo.com/b02r01/009/__S__/LAUvpwm9/7/15021111.wmv?StreamID=15021111&xdata=Eyn8J0.cue
access_file warning: dalwmod039.bcst.yahoo.com/b02r01/009/__S__/LAUvpwm9/7/15021111.wmv?StreamID=15021111&xdata=Eyn8J0.fyfuV36ip45Kw3A-30354401-1453478966&b=9e0q77l1c33ef&s=396500550: No such file or directory
cdda debug: trying .cue file: dalwmod039.bcst.yahoo.com/b02r01/009/__S__/LAUvpwm9/7/15021111.wmv?StreamID=15021111&xdata=Eyn8J0.cue
cdda warning: could not open dalwmod039.bcst.yahoo.com/b02r01/009/__S__/LAUvpwm9/7/15021111.wmv?StreamID=15021111&xdata=Eyn8J0.fyfuV36ip45Kw3A-30354401-1453478966&b=9e0q77l1c33ef&s=396500550
main warning: no access2 module matching “mms” could be loaded
main error: no suitable access module for `mms://dalwmod039.bcst.yahoo.com/b02r01/009/__S__/LAUvpwm9/7/15021111.wmv?StreamID=15021111&xdata=Eyn8J0.fyfuV36ip45Kw3A-30354401-1453478966&b=9e0q77l1c33ef&s=396500550′
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.953125s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.015625s
main debug: thread 3560 joined (src/input/input.c:386)

Please Please Help. I have SBC account so i logged in as that in launch.

When i try to open a music video yahoo tells me when try to open with a netscape browser i need the most up to date one, but im using firefox. why does it think i’m on netscape and what do i do to make it work in firefox.

Hello,

Instead of doing those proccess of retrieving .asx files there is a website: http://www.asxvideos.com that gives all asx codes for free and instantenously! :D Enjoy

im with you jojosh, it does the same to me, can anyone answer this?

the MMS is automaticly copied to your clipboard.

jammerules, most of use stop using the Greesemonkey script and exclusively use LyFOX, so your answer is use lyfox. :-)

If the MMS is copied to the clipboard automaticly, should this be the MMS “8742564677″ (as example)??

At which step i receive the MMS in the clipboard?
After searching for a track and play it until it ends?

Exist there a tut for the new Lyfox?

Thanks everyone for helping me out of this… :-)

when you double click the video in the list that is when it MMS is automaticly copied to the clipboard.

my pk launcher is not working

FernyB, you made an excellent job but i think Lyox isn’t working like it should work on OSX.4.4, ’cause i doubleclick on an artists video, see the “ready to play” message but i never see any mms adress in my clipboard/Textedit. i even just can copy video-ID, artist name and track name from lyfox… that’s all.

I’m an idiot, i would say now - but there must be an solution. Would be better if there exist a tutorialon yor website or this on uneasysilence should be renewed.

thanks for reading my problems…i will go to the nuthouse. good night!

KK, I included the textbox just like the old one I am not going to change it no more. So now its like good old time with the textbox showing you the mms url. Now no one should have any problems. The new lyfox is out with the textbox again for those of you who are having touble, enjoy.

@fernyb

you finally made it! yes!! cool job. next great wish would be the job of yahoo music - to upload more artists from Senegal like Youssou N’Dour or Daara J and not only Akon.

thanks again fernyb, for the wonderful work you did. nice greetings from Dakar!

Dude! It dosen’t work !!!!! Could you help me? I am having problems with the “script”, because everytime I right-click on the “here”, there is no option on “install user script”, then everytime I click on the video I want to download, it tells me that I must use Netscape v 7.1,but I am using firefox.HEEEEEELLLLP
MEEEEEEE

I’m consistantly getting only about 2 minutes of each video i downloaded. The rest of the videos do not show. This has happened on my PC and on my Mac. Has anyone else had this problem? Is this new?