Comments on: Where can I download video easily?

Question: Where can I download video easily?

meech — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:04:17 -0800

I've just bought a portable media player and want to fill it with video. I'm loving Stage6 - click the link and it quickly downloads a high quality divx file. Anything else out there as easy to use and reliable?

Stage6 has a great range of British TV but I also want to get hold of American television. I know this is in a gray legal area but I am prepared to pay money for a good service.

[I'm not interested in bit-torrent as it doesn't work for me with my service provider].

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:57:16 -0800

If you're prepared to pay money, try the iTunes Music Store, though playback will depend on which portable media player you own (it will work with iPods)

By: __

__ — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:00:00 -0800

You can download Youtube videos as well.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:05:14 -0800

Google Video has download links with most stuff, and there are hours of good old stuff.

By: hortense

hortense — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:39:36 -0800

blink-left just sent me this link

By: willmize

willmize — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:54:36 -0800

I'm not sure if you can download from it, but I LOVE this site:

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:28:58 -0800

On the Google Video recommendation: I regularly get dropped connections at about the 10% downloaded mark, and GV doesn't appear to support resuming. It does support downloading from X seconds in if you fool about with the download URL, and I've written a primitive brute-force file splicer that lets me stitch together a mostly workable AVI from all the resulting partial broken downloads, but this is a pain. Does anybody else get regularly broken downloads from GV, and if so, what's your workaround?

By: mzurer

mzurer — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:01:57 -0800

DVD rental + Mediafork would work really well for this.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:51:59 -0800

The tv-links.co.uk site is nice, but it's mainly a Stage6 scrape, so. Peekvid maybe?

By: edtut

edtut — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:52:03 -0800

how do you download the stage6 files? i can view them but dont know how to capture them??

By: dr. moot

dr. moot — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:18:50 -0800

I like tv-links , but the content is embeded in pop-ups, so downloading isn't always an option. alluc takes you to the page on the content provider, which makes for easier downloading. I find these two to be pretty complementary in terms of content so I use both.

To download from stage6: beside the big play button in the middle of the video screen is a down arrow, that is the download button.