The Realplayer is not held in very high regards by most users who have happened to come in contact with the player. This might change however with the discovery that the free version of RealPlayer SP is capable of downloading Vevo videos from Youtube (and maybe even Vevo itself but this has not been tried by the author of this article because of country filters).
Realplayer offers another benefit besides being the only viable solution to download Vevo videos from Youtube at this point: It is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh which means that most users who want to download videos from Vevo can use Realplayer to do so.
Realplayer SP can be downloaded for free at the RealPlayer website. The website will redirect the user automatically to a country specific website upon connection from where a localized version of Realplayer can be downloaded.
Realplayer can only be installed if the user enters a username and password during the installation. The option to display a download this video button next to videos is provided in the options during installation. This will display the button next to videos at Youtube so that these videos can be downloaded.
How to download Vevo videos with Realplayer SP:
Click on File in the menu bar after launching RealPlayer SP. Select New > New Web Browser from the menu. You can alternatively launch one of the supported external web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome).
Open the Youtube website and start looking for videos. A search for popular artists like Lady Gaga will display lots of videos that are now powered by Vevo.
Move the mouse cursor in the video once the video starts playing to display the Download this video button. This will open the RealPlayer downloader which will instantly start to download the Vevo video.
RealPlayer SP is currently the only free program that is available for Linux, Windows and Macintosh computer systems that can download Vevo videos. It is therefor a recommended program for users who want to download Vevo videos. It might even work with other videos that use the same form of protection like Vevo. (Thanks Erik for the tip).
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Oh no, no dear. Use a greasemonkey script to save yourself all the hassle!
Rage which Greasemonkey script can download Vevo videos?
loL realplayer, say no!
I use http://dirpy.com/, it has bookmarklet also, no addon required.
it has options for mp3, mp4,flv
Is Dirpy compatible with Vevo videos? I doubt it.
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Gotbletu, now that is great. Thanks for the clarification. Definitely better than Realplayer.
As of Feb 2/2011, the entire Dirpy has been closed/discontinued. Message on the page now at http://dirpy.com: “It is with great heaviness in our hearts that we have decided to discontinue Dirpy.”
So back to square one unfortunately.
Also exist a Greasemonkey script that work in Opera.
No need to use a greasemonkey script.
The extension 1-Click Youtube download for Firefox adds download links in FLV, MP4, 3GP and even in HD (where available) to every Youtube video.
It’s now working for those VEVO ones.
Here’s the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13990?collection_uuid=c04febb1-89b7-a14e-b607-013522581a23
Seems recently most youtube downloaders have stopped working after youtube has disbaled get_video , I found a site which works , I hope you like it : http://www.youtubeto3gp.com/
http://dirpy.com/ thank u so much Gotbletu…. i was liking going crazy not finding my favourite songs to hear because of vevo… now i am listening to it…! guys go for dirpy! thank you thank you thank you!
ive been using realplayer sp for a couple weeks and worked perfect. Then all of a sudden i log on today and can’t get the download window to appear on the top of the vevo window????? any suggestions?
great!!!
works just perfect
thank you
greetings from brazil
files2hd.com works quite fine…!!!
sorry, meant “file2hd.com”
All that is great. I managed to save Vevo videos to a RealPlayer Downloads folder (yep, I have a PC) and then saved them to a DVD. I cannot view them on my TV and I am wondering if anyone out there knows how to make that happen. Do I need to save them with a magic extension?