But until now your only options have been to use a clumsy Dropbox upload method, experiment with Roadshow's limited Vimeo-only capacity, or pull TED talks down directly through the iPad's dedicated TED app.
Frustrating. You want your YouTube vids, right?
Well, enter TagDiskHD+, the only iPad app that lets you quickly save YouTube videos directly to your iPad with no iTunes sync - and without the resolution limits of a Keepvid upload to Dropbox.
Experiment with the free lite version. But once you see how easy it is, you'll want to spring for the $4.99 paid app for unlimited downloads.
What I love about this app is its simplicity.
- Change the URL in the top browser from http://www.next4phone.com to m.youtube.com.
- Open the separate YouTube browser below it and search for a favourite video.
- Select the video, but don't hit play.
- Click the download arrow to the left of the top browser field.
- Hit OK when the "Enter URL to download" box pops up.
Your video will begin downloading very quickly. To finish:
- Click the "downloads" button at the bottom of the screen to check the progress of your download.
- Once the download's done, click the "disk" button at the bottom.
- Your video is now sitting pretty in the "documents" folder.
Then pull down as many YouTube videos as you want and show your students, colleagues, family, geo-caching club, guitar teacher, etc.
Realistically, this feature should not inspire ooh, aahs and sharp intakes of breath. After all, it's a function that seems so natural. But if you've been searching for a way to do this - and know just how impossible this has been for an iPad that hasn't been jailbroken - you just might gasp, ever so slightly, the first time you see it happen.
Happy downloading.
technically this does violate YouTube's terms of service agreement though which states that videos uploaded to YouTube can only be viewed through YouTube.
ReplyDeleteI wondered about that, John. There's a lengthy description in the App Store that tells a potential buyer what it can do and what file formats it can handle. Successive versions have been approved. Wonder how well they screen.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that Apple and app developers don't really concern themselves with YouTube's TOS but the YouTube TOS is quite explicit that there is only one way to view YouTube videos and that is via YouTube.
ReplyDeleteApple does approve apps that may/may not be legal/ethical. As long as they don't harm Apple itself that is...
I'm having the same issue, albeit sporadically. Sometimes the video loads fine, other times it takes years. Really strange. I do have a fairly slow connection new technology of it but YouTube's fine on my desktop gadgets shop.
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