Ashley emailed us about how to rip videos from YouTube in high quality on a Mac? His kids wanna to see their favourite YouTube videos on summer holidays.
Answer: Rip video/audio from YouTube videos is useful if you want to rewatch the videos later on your computer. Many websites and programs cater to downloading YouTube videos, but not all of them offer high-quality or high-definition downloading capabilities.
iFunia Free YouTube Downloader for Mac is the best choice. Apart from its free YouTube video downloading ability, this free YouTube Ripper for Mac also capable of downloading all YouTube videos in whatever format or resolution, including YouTube HD/SD video, even YouTube HTML5 videos.
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Here is how to rip videos from YouTube in HQ on Mac
Step 1. Search for YouTube HD Videos
Navigate to YouTube, find the HD YouTube video you’d like to download. After that install iFunia YouTube Ripper for Mac. Drag and drop the URL of the HD YouTube videos to the interface of the YouTube Ripper and the YouTube 1080p HD videos will start downloading automatically.
Step 2. Start Ripping Video/Audio from YouTube on Mac
The YouTube Ripper will start Ripping videos from YouTube automatically after you add the video URLs. Make sure your Internet is connected to YouTube website and the URLs of YouTube videos are correct. You’re able to ripping multiple YouTube videos all at once.
Step 3. Convert HQ YouTube Videos to Other Formats on Mac
iFunia Free YouTube Downloader for Mac doesn’t support to convert the downloaded YouTube videos only if you upgrade it to iFunia YouTube Converter for Mac. With YouTube Converter for Mac, you can easily download and convert YouTube videos to all popular video and audio formats on Mac like AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, M4V, MP3, MKV etc., enables you to enjoy online YouTube funny videos offline with many latest portable devices like iPad, iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Tab, PSP, Kindle Fire, NOOK Tablet and many latest Smart Phones.
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Just add fmt=18 or 6 in internet explorer and view the cache after the video loaded. If you arrange by size it usually shows up on the bottom. Very easy.
Youtube is hardly what you’d call “high quality”.
More like “acceptable for a small window in a web browser” quality.
I’ve been loonkig for a post like this for an age
Wow that’s pretty rad, thanks. I didn’t know you could do that. Soon as I get an Xbox I’ll be using this to load it up with videos.
Or just go to “activity” and double click on the active file and whatever you are streaming downloads by itself..
If you want to downlaod the high quality version of YouTube videos, all you need to do is locate the page source and add the video ID for the high quality version.
I like doing it directly from the iPad and your post was fine.
Its also easy to just save them on the PC and sync them over since youtube is now using mp4 to stream in html5