I have a Creative Zen V 2GB - it's pretty good, easy and comfortable to use. The downside is that it requires you to install some crappy software to be able to copy the files and create playlists. Oh well...
Downloading videos - I used to use VDownloader which worked really well; you could download a video from youtube, google video and some other sites (including porn sites XD), convert it to AVI, MPEG and some other formats or just download audio only. However, after youtube went through some changes, VDownloader stopped working - I guess whatever caused it, was addressed in later versions of the program, but I never really bothered checking. There are also various plugins for Firefox (and probably other browsers) that allow you to download videos.
Now I just copy the streamed video from the browser's cache (in youtube's FLV format) and use CCCP for playback (the only drawback is that this method doesn't work with files over certain size - they are temporarily stored in the cache, but they disappear as soon as the whole video is streamed). But if you need an AVI, you'd better try those programs/plugins - unless you feel pr0 enough to use AviSynth + VirtualDub for reencoding/conversion. :D
However, if you'd like to give it a try, the Firefox cache should be here: C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local settings\Application data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random letters and numbers].default\Cache\
The files in cache have names like 22CC2AA8d01 or 06CF11A6d01 - you need to look at their size and creation time; Total Commander comes in handy.
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Date: 7/1/09 20:17 (UTC)I have a Creative Zen V 2GB - it's pretty good, easy and comfortable to use. The downside is that it requires you to install some crappy software to be able to copy the files and create playlists. Oh well...
Downloading videos - I used to use VDownloader which worked really well; you could download a video from youtube, google video and some other sites (including porn sites XD), convert it to AVI, MPEG and some other formats or just download audio only. However, after youtube went through some changes, VDownloader stopped working - I guess whatever caused it, was addressed in later versions of the program, but I never really bothered checking. There are also various plugins for Firefox (and probably other browsers) that allow you to download videos.
Now I just copy the streamed video from the browser's cache (in youtube's FLV format) and use CCCP for playback (the only drawback is that this method doesn't work with files over certain size - they are temporarily stored in the cache, but they disappear as soon as the whole video is streamed). But if you need an AVI, you'd better try those programs/plugins - unless you feel pr0 enough to use AviSynth + VirtualDub for reencoding/conversion. :D
However, if you'd like to give it a try, the Firefox cache should be here:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local settings\Application data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random letters and numbers].default\Cache\
The files in cache have names like 22CC2AA8d01 or 06CF11A6d01 - you need to look at their size and creation time; Total Commander comes in handy.
Hope this helps. ^^