Youtube is a great source of Japanese language material, especially for those who don't live in Japan, but the downside is the lack of portability - you have to watch the video online, which can be both inconvenient and distracting (ever tried to watch just ONE video clip on Youtube?) Open source to the rescue! Takuma Mori's vixy.net is an open source online service which allows you to convert Flash video (FLV files) into MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) so that you can save the file to your hard drive and transfer it to your iPod or phone. Now you can watch Good Learner, Bad Learner wherever you are!
PS (Keen beans can read Mori's vixy blog in Japanese)
GREAT POST! I can't tell you how helpful this is for some of the less techno-savvy folks like myself. Without a soundcard for the computer I use, it's been really tough for me seeing all the resources out there that I COULDN'T use. Now that I can add them to my Ipod, I'm totally stoked!
Posted by: jljzen | March 13, 2007 at 08:32 PM
YouTube would be great if it wasn't for all the home movies. ;-)
Posted by: Coal | March 14, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Undoubtly, vixy.net: online FLV converter is powerful, but my web connection speed is very slow, so I wonder if there exsite some FLV converter that support muti-thread converting online :)
Posted by: FLV converter | March 27, 2007 at 12:11 PM
If you like to download mp3 than there is an alternative:
http://www.audioget.net
There is a search function intergrated which helps to find music.
Posted by: YTAG | November 30, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Here is a site that more use full than vixy.net download youtube videos on the fly,in any format http://youtubeddl.com dirict download from youtube server
Posted by: sradha sadia | April 04, 2009 at 01:20 PM