Re: Good YouTube Downloader

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:56:54 -0600, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you
wrote:

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I may have tried that once too, and gave up, preferring instead to simply
use "Media Player Classic", which is a nice, compact, and lightweight
freebie, and one that supports playing a wider variety of formats than many
(incl. WMP). Having both is the best of worlds.

I now use WMP only for playing WMV files - preferring other media players
like MPC for most other formats. (Although I usually use Winamp for playing
mp3 files (although MPC can do it), and an old version of Real Player for
playing Real Media files).

You might take a look at "Media Player Classic" (MPC). It's been around a
long time, and has a pretty good "reputation".

Here are some links to it, and that describe it (with comments).

BTW, these two links are great for finding software and customer reviews -
in addition to CNET, I might add.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detai...45531002/1

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Medi...er-Classic

Hi Bill,

I downloaded Media Player Classic, but I didn't try it yet.

I forgot to mention that the converted file, WMV was about half the size
compared to MP4. I guess this is an advantage if you download a lot of
MP4 videos. Also, some videos are downloaded as FLV. I use
"FLVPlayer4Free" to view those.

Again Thanks, John