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[Nery]

Great tutorial. Its rare to see one of this around the internet...

[TheET]

Thanks CodenStuff 4 VIP status !

If you want to save it as .avi or other video formats , just add a converter into your Youtube Downloader . You can learn how to make a video converter in Visual basic at Youtube , just search it & there will be a lot of results .

[hiyadutch]

... i already tried that but it doesn't work. it can only be opened with VLC media player

[hiyadutch]

hey, you can't put a flv player in vb.net but you can open it like process.start ("then the player") if they put it in the right map for this one (a rly simpel one i found) you dont need anything do dowload/instal

[TheET]

Ok

[polas]

Hei man it works 100% ;)
can you know how to convert not to mp4 but to mp3 ;)?

[TheET]

That means it extract the song from the video ?
I haven't try out that , try search the internet for the conversion tutorial then implent into your youtube downloader .

[CodenStuff]

Hello,

Heres something you could maybe add to this downloader, a thumbnail preview of the video your downloading.

Add a picturebox control to the form and size it to 120,90 pixels then add this code into "Button1_Click" event:

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 Dim thumb = TextBox1.Text
        thumb = thumb.Replace("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", "http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/")
        thumb = thumb + "/default.jpg"
        Try
            PictureBox1.Load(thumb)
        Catch ex As Exception
        End Try

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And/or If you want to add actual video preview to it just add the "ShockwavePlayer" control to your form and use this code:

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Dim previd = TextBox1.Text
        previd = previd.Replace("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", "http://www.youtube.com/v/")
        Try
            AxShockwaveFlash1.LoadMovie(0, previd)
        Catch ex As Exception
        End Try

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Aslong as people enter download URLs like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abjgzXracc then it should work fine . Needs a bit of tweaking but it works.



Happy coding cooll;

[TheET]

Great job , i haven't tought of that too .

[TheET]

Yeah , if a person click a video from a feature list , it will not work .

You can fix it by using the the replacement tacnic in the code . Replace the extra "&feature=rec-fresh+div-r-2-HM" word with a blank"" , then it will work