update: phpLyFOX
Update: phpLyFOX is working again. Although some video’s do not show but for the most part it’s working again. I don’t know for how long it will work. See it could be done. One question and leave your answers in the comments. Will you pay for phplyfox if it was payware? or would you just say F that I’m not gonna pay for anything..?
PHP Source Code: http://fernyb.net/phpLYFOX/php_lyfox_source.zip
June 3rd, 2007 at 1:59 pm
The point of LyFOX was to avoid having to “pay” for the Y! music videos by watching commercials. I’d rather not have to pay for this, but I would be willing to if it were very cheap. (less that $0.50 per month or something like that)
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:03 pm
I like comments.
Think about it. You gives you the MMS URL that was the point of LyFOX not commercial skipping, that was my point with LyFOX. LyFOX will always be free of course don’t count on support or anything else like that because it all takes time and time is equal to money and I don’t make anything from this, it’s more of a mental exercise for me.
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Well, the thing I always appreciated with LyFOX (v5 or v6) was the MMS URL and the fact that I could get access to the higher BW stuff (>300KBPS) that Y! kept hidden. That would have been worth a small payment ($20 or so) to me. Anyway, thanks!
June 3rd, 2007 at 8:13 pm
better than nothing, I appreciate your work.
but it looks it doesn’t work with the new songs.
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
hey, it’d be nice to have the new php code if possible. i like the fact that you keep it up and its worth a little to me to have (especially if it’s kept up)
cheers!
June 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Lyfox is really cool! Thanks for the hard work…quick question: when I click on a video I’m trying to download the MMS doesn’t appear at the bottom like it use to. Has anything changed or did I do something stupid? Please let me know…thanks again!!!
June 4th, 2007 at 5:06 am
thank you very much. great work. i only hope that the previous features of lyfox will be included in the phpLyfox version like for example bandwidth option, song title search rather than artist search ; Will i pay for it? the answer is an honest No. but THANK YOU.
June 4th, 2007 at 5:18 am
I appreciate your work. If is cheap (about 5-10/year) im pleased to pay for it. See ya !
June 4th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Thank you for your hard work. LyFox works again.
June 4th, 2007 at 5:52 am
Lyfox doesn’t work for new videos, I think that’s because Yahoo has changed their video format from wmv to flv files.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:46 am
I pray that someday LyFox will be able to help me download .FLV files over at Yahoo!
June 6th, 2007 at 12:18 am
i think the video in yahoo still wmv . .
June 6th, 2007 at 12:41 am
i think the url is pretty much the same
mms://209.73.189.129/st1202r14/014/__S__/LAUvpwm9/4/37517603.wmv?StreamID=37517603&pl_auth=cbea6ed74f6cacf666253477c653c4bf&ht=3630&xdata=NjI5MTU2NDczNDY2NjZlZT-48949479-382151064&so=%2FMUSIC&b=5vhv6g52d352d46666ee9&s=396500312
June 6th, 2007 at 2:55 am
How did you get that download link?’Cos I can’t get a video link with Yahoo’s new video player.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:51 am
well, lyfox is a good way to get videos of high quality from yahoo…..i myself have downloaded lots of videos usig lyfox….but honestly, i would not pay for it, simply because there are loads of forums and file sharing sites from which i can get these videos, though it would require a bit of searching….nice effort,though…..keep the project alive….
June 7th, 2007 at 1:21 am
i just use the url snooper . . and you’ll see a lot of mms url make sure u pick the right one . . . .lyfox is the easier one. . . .
June 7th, 2007 at 1:29 am
awesome ^^ thank you a lot
June 7th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Any chance you could get the new vids working to, seems to be quite a few missing.
THANKS ALOT
June 7th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
no, sorry, i would not pay for it. there are tons of other ways to get videos, but i like lyfox b/c its fast access to watch videos. thanks for fixing it btw.
June 9th, 2007 at 9:19 am
i will not pay for it at any cost..lol
this is the best thing i ever had on internet, but now video downloading passion is just gone, i have downloaded much videos , even my hard drive was begging for some space, finally i delete lots of videos… “every thing has a limit” ……. cheers
June 9th, 2007 at 9:21 am
i will not pay for it at any cost..
this is the best thing i ever had on internet, but now video downloading passion is just gone, i have downloaded much videos , even my hard drive was begging for some space, finally i delete lots of videos… “every thing has a limit” ……. cheers
June 9th, 2007 at 9:22 am
i will not pay for it at any cost..lol…this is the best thing i ever had on internet, but now video…downloading passion is just gone, i have downloaded much videos , even my hard drive was….begging for some space, finally i delete lots of videos… “every thing has a limit” ……. cheers
June 10th, 2007 at 10:47 am
you could set up some kind of donation thing through paypal or something. you could probably get some donations that way.
June 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
i’m glad you solved ll your problems,but from us Windows users, the video isn’t in FLV, so i can’t download new ones.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:49 am
hey stack, thanks for the tip. url snooper works like a charm.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:19 am
hey fernyb
u r gr8 man!
hope u develop a programme by which one can download yahoo! videos in FLV format
looking forward for ur programmes
thanks a lot
FERNYB KI JAI!
June 15th, 2007 at 11:20 am
how to use URL snooper
can ne1 explain please??
June 17th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Are yahoo changing to flv format in USA only?
Don’t think its changed in the UK.
Can we get those videos to work somehow?
Thanks
June 21st, 2007 at 5:47 am
I am php developer, and I toke a look at your application. It’s really very good one, although I notice that it still needs so much of enhancement.
Do you mind if I add the features I think it should be there?
Also, I noticed that search does not show all results, so I changed the search from search.ca.music.yahoo.com to search.music.yahoo.com, to be able to find all results, and it worked… Also, I fixed the next and previous problem, because it never appeared!
So, do you mind if I add many features to it, to let people create, save, generate, and email playlists of the music videos they like?
As soon as I finish it, I will send you a copy of the source code.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:10 am
Medo, Sure go for it. I don’t mind. ok.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Thank you sooooooo much Ferny.
The problem about viewing more than 25 results happens when you try to search for multiple keywords, but when you search for one keyword, it works very well.
I fixed it, by changing the code to:
$searchString = urlencode($_GET['search']);
And, that’s it!
June 24th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Hi,
Is it possible for us to test out the new version by Medo?
Thanks
June 28th, 2007 at 6:07 am
I am working on it, and I am going to give you the link to test it, and also I will send the source code to FernyB, because he is the original developer of it.
Anyway, you can try it at http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/ but it is not complete yet.
I am working on changing the way that the program imports the music videos links in, and also the search results. I am testing some ways to see which one works faster.
I am working on adding code that displays related news for the artist, related music videos, and related music CDs that you can purchase from Amazon.
I hope you all like it, and all credit for the application is for FernyB of course.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Medos version doesnt hav the mms url… but it has all the new videos. nice work by both of U…
nd btw i wont pay for it. i wud jus use torrents to download music vidz i.e skidvids if u know wht im talkin about… but great work anyway!!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
medo was able to work on inproving the search results. the results looks complete. but it does not provide the mms url ;( its useless to us. hey medo good job. please share.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
I will make private version for you people, that displays the mms url.
I just added rating system to the application, to let you rate the artist, and or the music video.
For you who did not try the player, you can try it here: http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/
But please not that it stills beta version, and miss many important features, but I am working on it.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
I have fixed my version now it display ALL videos with the MMS URL included.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:42 am
NICE WOrk FernyB… keep it up!
… very user friendly nd easy to use.
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Hey Ferny… r u gonna put a bitrate option on there?
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:36 am
This feature is available at my application -originally developed by FernyB – , to try it go to http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/ and search for any music video, or click on one of the top 10 music videos, or click on one of the new videos links.
In the player page, you will find the option to choose the video bitrate- bandwidth.
When you choose the video bitrate, you don’t have to choose it every time you visit the website, because it’s being saved.
I hope you like it!
July 4th, 2007 at 12:46 am
i would like to know how to host a website like this with this php source code how do i do it. Ill put a link to your website, too (if i get to host it)
July 4th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
There is a video downloader for .flv videos, go to http://www.videodownloader.net. Download that and you’ll be able to get .flv videos from youtube, putfile, google, metacafe etc. Haven’t tried with Yahoo yet. Hope this helps.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
When can we download the new fixed version?
July 5th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
If you mean my version, it will be available through the next couple days, and this is web version.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Hey, if Lyfox .7 work like it did before, I would pay for it on a monthly basis.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Medo,
Where and when can we download your version?
July 10th, 2007 at 1:28 am
@Ferny – Why is phpLyFOX set for Canadian media (320×240)? The US media is a much better 400×300 video (same format as the Canadian Yahoo! Media Player Beta). Is there anyway you can fix it and update the download link?
TIA
July 10th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Yes I can fix it…
July 10th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Swell! Thanks, that was a quick reply.
July 13th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Seems like it’s not work for new songs,
when I click it shows nothing: no mms link either.
July 31st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
What happen to all the updates? like Paylow Music, or Lyfox?
August 5th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Sorry, but i have tried but i can’t download the video i love , help me !
August 15th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Well,
I am back
Updating pay low music is running, and it will appear in the next 2 days.
Updates include, update in the player look, the ability to play multiple videos in a playlist on paylowmusic.com itself, the ability to share the playlists and saving it, and the ability to email it… and invite friends to watch it. Also the ability to read the lyrics of the music video while watching it should be available.
So it’s kind of watch list.
Also, you will be able to watch the video in the format you choose…
And you will be able to know what others search for (TOP keywords).
But I want the guys who watch music videos at paylowmusic.com , who watch it using FireFox, are you able to play the videos? Or it does not work???
Thank you so much for your support and feedback, and also great thanks to Ferny who started this great work, and the owner of the core code.
The updates will be available in 17 august, after 2 days from now.
I hope you will like it, and waiting for your feedback on it at http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/ the music videos player home page.
August 18th, 2007 at 7:40 am
its pretty easy to download music from http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/…..all u need is fiefox and this extension and flashget to download the mms links…
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446
enjoy….
August 18th, 2007 at 7:52 am
thank medo…i just downloaded videos from the all american rejects….but it would have been nice if i could download videos in 700k….
August 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am
I am working on making downloading videos in multiple formats, so you can choose the format you want to download the video in…
August 19th, 2007 at 1:02 am
thats great news medo…will be looking forward to that…
August 28th, 2007 at 12:03 am
I don’t know Medo, I really don’t like your site. It’s bombarded with ads and the site design is too basic and kinda sucks. And yeah, where can you download the source code that you talk about?
August 28th, 2007 at 5:24 am
Hey JMR
Thank you for your comment.
I am always interested in your feedback, to meet your needs.
About the design, it’s going to be changed completely, and the ads will be more organized, so you would know it’s ads, and ads help me cover the webhosting fees, but please you should know that I welcome you and other thousands of visitors who visit the website to enjoy.
Please feel free to contact me at support@paylowmusic.com and tell me exactly the features you think it should be available at Pay Low Music!
I am very excited about reading your full feedback.
Thank again.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:55 am
Well,
If I offer you Pay Low Music!, without any ads at all, with unlimited internet radio to listen to it, lyrics, artist, new music alerts, unlimited music videos download, music news, with up to date information.
If I offer you all these features with $2/mo subscription… would you subscripe?
You would pay via credit card, or PayPal.
Would you subscribe? Or you prefer all these features with ads.. and for free?
Which one do you prefer?
Waiting for your feedback here and also you can email your answers at support-at-paylowmusic.com
August 31st, 2007 at 6:31 am
Pay you so I can download Yahoo and AOL music videos? Using Ferny’s code? Come on man… how about recoding the stuff first so that we can download videos at the highest resolution (currently 700k 400×300). If you can do that, then I may give it some thought.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Well,
Yes, you can download any video at any bitrate/ resolution you want, and also you can choose the format you want mov/wmv/ realplayer. And this will be available for both free visitors and paid subscriptions, but it will be limited to the free visitors.
Pay Low Music! will be available in 2 ways, free subscription and paid subscription.
So, Pay Low Music! will still for free but it will contain ads.
So, the idea behind the subsctiption is accessing more features, and have the website without any ads at $2/mo only.
September 1st, 2007 at 9:49 am
LOL! Well let me know when I can download at 700k 400×300 or higher. As of right now your site only goes to 500k max. You don’t even have the MMS link in there. Show me at least a glimpse of what my $2 bucks will get me.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:43 am
Dear JMR,
allow couple of hours, and you will be able to watch the music videos at 700K and up to 1024 quality.
I don’t allow the MMS to be displayed for security reasons.
More formats such as quicktime and flash will be available soon for paid subscriptions.
Cheers
September 1st, 2007 at 8:04 pm
hey everyone. noob here.
a little help? using lyfox to find MMS.
now my question is, how the heck do i download the video?
another question here… i copy and paste the MMS onto WMP.
can i save the video that way? when I go to “save as”, the “save as” is greyed out.
any help?
September 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
J5, if you are windows user you can use an application called SDP it allows you down mms:// streams
if you are a Mac OSX user like myself then you can use VLC to download the stream.
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:36 am
Hey JMR
Now, you can play the videos there http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/ up to 710KB quality, and starting from tommorrow you will be able to watch videos with quality up to 1 mg/ DVD quality.
I hope you are satisfied now
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:24 am
FernyB, thanks for your help.
I’m going to try this out.
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:37 pm
to FernyB or those that have downloaded videos…
what format are they in when you d/l them?
i want to d/l music videos to burn onto a disk.
i know you can d/l videos from youtube and google but the quality is not the best.
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:29 pm
J5, they are in .wmv format so when you name you file make sure you include .wmv at the end of the name ( ex. northstar_music_video.wmv )
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Nice.
Just d/led my first one.
I like.
I like.
I like.
Thanks so much!!
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:18 am
Hey Medo (Pay Low Music),
Yeah that’s one bit of improvement. However, that is still in the old 320×240 format that you can get with Ferny’s code. I would like to see the newer and better 400×300 format in play. I’ll wait and see tommorow how your 1mg would come along along. If you do that then maybe I’ll be satisfied.
September 3rd, 2007 at 5:31 am
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
OK JMR, I will show you tonight the highest quality you might imagine.
And I hope you notice the difference in the quality.
I will offer that you change the settings of the player, so you choose the quality, the size of the video, and the format.
Also, you will be able to save playlists of music videos on paylowmusic, and come watch it later.
All what am I asking you to do, is inviting your friends:)
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Hello people,
Starting from 10 September, Pay Low Music! will be opened for registeration both free and paid subscriptions.
Exclusive to Ferny’s blog visitors, 1 month subscription free. Just insert the code FB147 in the registeration page, and you will receive 3 months of paid subscription for free, and visit the websiite’s full features for free, and also with 1 ad only.
I hope you will like it, as well as I hope you use the code here. It’s exclusive for Ferny’s blog visitors.
Of course Ferny himself will have life-time paid subscription for free.
September 4th, 2007 at 7:07 am
So what happened to the 1mg/DVD quality feed? Or the 700k 400×300 feed? Or the MMS link? What features are we gonna get? Do we have to wait a week?
September 4th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Well,
Please go to http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/ and test it.
It suppose to be working now.
Please note that you will need a high internet broadband connection to play the music videos with DVD Quality.
Waiting for your feedback!
September 4th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Nope, there is no difference. That is still in the old 700k 320×240 format. I’ve played a few on your top 10 list and they are all the same (and yes I selected DVD quality). Maybe you can direct me to a specific video to play?
September 4th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
@Pay Low
Going to your site, can one NOT get the MMS needed to download the videos? Either I am more inept than I thought because I can’t find the MMS or it is not possible.
Also, for everyone else…
How does VLC work? Is that similar to Audacity where it records what is being played on the computer?
Or do you need a URL snooper to find the MMS which you than copy and paste onto VLC?
Thanks again everyone.
September 4th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
You can go to Ferny’s page if you want the MMS link. It is on top of this page. Here’s the link for shortcut: http://fernyb.net/phpLYFOX/
September 5th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Thanks JMR.
Yes I am using Ferny’s link to find MMS links.
@ Ferny
Is your link down? I can’t get any videos to play.
I search the videos. I get my results. When I go to play, nothing happens.
Thanks.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:27 am
like i told u guys before, u need to use media player connectivity or some other software like url snooper to find out the embedded mms link…
and i will not pay for music videos….if not from this paylow site, i can always get it from another site…
September 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
also dvd quality is not available for all video clips, esp older music videos…
September 5th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
@ apoorva
Yeah, that snooper is old news but LyFox has its own advantage too.
Why fuzz with snooper if you can have it readily available through LyFox.
If only it works with the new higher-res videos ;(
Also, DVD quality was never available (through Yahoo), even with the newest videos. At least none that I know of. Can you name at least one video in DVD quality format? That I would like to see.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
JMR…
Can you suggest a good URL snooper to find MMS?
I googled the snooper but got to many results.
I want to make sure I d/l a good one.
thanks.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Hey,
Firstly, I would like to mention to something, that PayLowMusic! will be available for free for anybody to subscripe, and you will be able to play unlimited videos with the free subscription. But there will be a paid subscription too.
Secondly, if you think that the DVD quality I offer on Pay Low Music!, is not real, then I would like to tell you that through the next couple of days you will be able to watch and DOWNLOAD music videos even in real DVD quality, and the format you choose (WMV, Quicktime, and others).
September 6th, 2007 at 7:26 am
To Pay Low Mu$ic
1. I think you have taken advantage of FernyB’s code by
a) downloading his code and using it for profit while he posted his code on his site for free
b) You keep promoting your site on his site without you making any reference of his site on your site (althought he has been nice enough to keep your comments which we know drive traffic to your site)
c) You keep making promisses about posting your code for free and until this day you haven’t done so
d) You keep making excuses for not posting the mms code, you say that it is for “security reasons” that you can’t post the mms code, yet FernyB has it posted on his site, what are these “security reasons” you talk about?
e) I dont see any link back to this site from your paid site stating that you have aquired the code for free, yet you have on your site a copyright “Copyright © 2005 – 2007. All rights reserved.” What in the world is that?
f) You say you need ads to laverage the hosting costs. Well, I’m not eating that bunch of bologna. First: You are not hosting the videos you are only linking to them and all your ads are brought from external sites so the load to your server is minimal. Second: FernyB’s has to pay for hosting too and his page is not plastered with ads.
g) I took a closer look at your site and it seems you have built a business model around his code and I would like to know how FernyB is going to get compensated for each subscription you get paid for since he created the first version. Is he getting a percentage for each subscription?
h) You are trying to look like a “nice guy” by offering the first 3 months “free” but after that the users have to pay? How low is that?
September 6th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Dear jjr,
If you read my comments above correctly, you might notice a couple of things.
Firstly, that I have changed my nickname from Medo to Pay Low Music!, which means I moved from personal talk to official talk, and that Pay Low Music! is really registered as trademark in U.S. since June 2005.
Secondly, you would notice that since I start commenting, I always refer the work to Ferny, because he is really very good and nice person, and he is always helpful for me in our email communications.
And you should know something about Ferny, he is really very wonderful person, and he is not that kind of people that would stop the good work, specially that he is who started it.
And I am saying that after many emails between him and me. He is really a nice guy.
Let me answer your questions one by one.
About the code, the code currently became more sophisticated than a “music video player that enables to catch mms urls”, and I have integrated it in a full-set of features program, that you and everybody will be able to take advantage of it FOR FREEE FOREVER, but it does not mean that there will be a commercial version of it.
About the mms url, all what you care abuot is downloading the music video? Everybody will be able to download the music videos in the format you choose and set in kind of preference.
About the ads, soon the look of the website will be dramaticly changed, and the ads will be more organized, so you will be able to know it’s ads. And I am really glad that you people keep visiting the websites, and I see that 80% of the website visitors are visiting the website directly – many of them came from here firstly of course- even someone today stayed on the website for more than 2 hrs, and viewed more than 160 pages!!!!! And I love that. I welcome you to play the videos, and take advantage of the website, and you are the main reason I keep enhancing the features of the websites, and I listened to everybody asked for changing the website design, and it changes will be applied sooooo soon.
About the business model, yes I ‘ve built a business model around it, and because I have vision regard the business, and I can tell that I can turn any idea into business. And there is no shame in that!!!
About Ferny’s right in the code, and if he would take a percentage, because he is the developer of the core work, I would like to tell there is a cummonications between him and me already happened regard this, and I don’t like to tell about any details because its “business matter”.
About the free trial subscription, here I am saying it again, everyone will be able to sign up FOR FREE, and there will be both free and commercial version of Pay Low Music!
There will be many features will be available for the free subscription, and there will be more and better features for the paid subscription.
The free trial is 1 month only. If you like the paid subscription, you will continue with it by paying for it, if you don’t like it or can’t afford it, you will still have the option by using the free subscription. The free subscription is very good also.
And please note that Pay Low Music!, Inc is going to pay for other companies to introduce a new features, and this costs a fortune.
When the new version of Pay Low Music! be available, you will better understand evertyhing regard both subscriptions, and you will find a detailed information about both subscriptions.
Finally, the free trial 1 month would be available for visitors come through Ferny’s blog only who are using the coupon code: FB147 by inserting it into the shopping cart.
Thank you for asking me all of these questions, and I really welcome it, to make things clear.
Of course special thanks to Ferny, the guy who started all of that, and because the space he gives me here.
September 6th, 2007 at 10:19 am
All I have to say is Thank you for -soon- killing this wonderful tool. Once Yahoo figures out that “you” have created a tool so that people can download files for a fee they might just change the way we can access the videos or simple make it more difficult to access the items.
Which in reallity what is the difference between visiting your site and Yahoo’s music site? other than downloading the file the rest is just a site filled with ads in hope that some one will click on them.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe in business but when you take something that was created for free (without being released under any license)and then when you know you can enhance it and you say “hey! I can make this a little better than the original, so why dont I just add this thing or this other and charge for it” then it doesnt seem to be too much of business to me.
and one last comment, please when you reply try not to sound like a TV Commercial, we know about your “discount” and what you are doing, but when on each one of your posts you try to push your product by saying “and remember that the code…, and dont forget that soon this will happen, and dont forget to visit my site, and keep comming ” it becomes annoying.
We know you are not here to help others or to make the tool better for everyone to enjoy, but you are here to get a free tool and enhance it so you can reap all the benefit.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am
JJR,
I am soooooo sorry for this misunderstanding.
And I am not adding a comercial ads here! Not at all!
And, the website won’t allow people to download the music videos from Yahoo!, because Yahoo! Music uses MMS, and I have not figured a direct way to let you and others download the music videos from Yahoo! Music!. So, the music videos downloading won’t be from Yahoo! Music.
I am really sorry again for any misunderstanding.
And remember, that you can alway use Ferny’s version here:
http://fernyb.net/phpLYFOX/
It’s really very good, and it’s working very well.
September 7th, 2007 at 12:35 am
first of all, paylowmusic and jjr, guys settle down…its just about a bunch of music videos….u can always get dvd ripped music videos from warez forums like warezbb.org and forumw.org.
also, i am quite happy with paylowmusic’s website…cause i can download the music the music videos after unmasking the mms link(which is pretty simple)…ad, yes,they suck but as long as i get the videos, who cares?lol….
September 7th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Apoorva solved it
And the ads will be more organized. I will remove some of it.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:00 am
@Apoorva
are you using an URL snooper?
If so, can you recommend a good one.
thanks
September 7th, 2007 at 10:23 am
@ apoorva
Why would you even bother unmasking and downloading lower quality videos if you can get DVD quality somewhere else? Or why not do it straight from the source (Yahoo!) and get the best quality they offer? And why do you need to unmask the MMS from PayLow if it’s already available @ Ferny’s site? And why haven’t you answered my question from my previous post?
This is not about just downloading videos, this whole thread is about empty promises of wannabees and not giving credit where credit is due. Both of you talk about nonsense and don’t backup your claim and statements.
So until you both show me a DVD quality Yahoo video or watch/download a 700k 400×300 feed, I will take your claim and statements with a grain of salt.
Shooow meee the moooneeey!
September 7th, 2007 at 10:27 am
@ J5
Sorry I missed your post. Seach for URLSnooper2. I don’t know if I can post a link here.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:50 am
thanks JMR.
i don’t mean to derail this thread but i must ask…
the snooper finds the mms. i copy and paste onto sdp downloader but i get an erro message
i dont’ have access to location or file.
thoughts? the site i’m on is yahoo.
September 7th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
J5,use flashget for downloading mms links….
September 7th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
@JMR,
yes, i agree, you can download the videos from other sites(file sharing sites) in dvd quality,neither ferny’s nor paylowmusic’s site offer this…not even one dvd quality video was available on paylowmusic’s site…
and i am using paylowmusic’s site because ferny’s phplyfox page doesnt generate the mms urls for all video clips….whereas, with paylow’s site i can get the mms link to any video no matter waht(though its a round about process cause paylowmusic hides his mms links)…..
September 7th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
@J5
read my previous post…for convenience i will explain gain….install 1.firefox, 2.flashget download manager and 3.media player connectivity extension for firefox….media player conenctivity extension helps you to play an embedded video on any web page in an external player….go to paylowmusic’s website and choose the video you want…once the pop up opens, choose the bitrate(700kbps) and then u can see the mms link by clicking on the arrow at the bottom right of your pop up window..jusy copy that mms link and paste it in flasget and voila, you have the video…..
its pretty easy actually…you dont need urlsnooper2 or anything like that…
September 7th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
@JMr
you were sounding too much like an American in your previous post….i bet you are even ready to sue paylowwmusic for false advertisement!!!
yes, i agree paylowmusic isn’t offering what he promised,but i am sure he will get things working…we just have to wait a bit, i guess…
and also,even though, you can download videos in dvd quality from other sites(torrents included), not always will you get videos in .wmv format….size of the video is one important thing,and the availability of videos is another issue….for example i searched many warez sites, but couldn’t find the entire videograpy of bon jovi’s but i found it on yahoo and downloaded most using paylowmusic’s website….
September 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
@apoorva (or should i say paylowmusic)?
do you get paid by paylowmusic or are you friends with the guy or even yet are you the same person? just in your last 3 posts you mention the site about 6 times!!! and its nothing but defending them… or should I say defending yourself?
September 8th, 2007 at 1:57 am
@JJR
first of all, let me tell you one thing….i am not defending anybody….nobody is paying me nothing….ferny’s lyfox was good while it lasted….also the lyfox.php page will not fetch the mms links of all videos…
so, you have an alternative in paylowmusic…use it to download/watch music while it lasts….thats all i can say….i am using it well to download videos which i like, if the ads and the so called paid subscription dont appeal to you, just dont visit the side…anyway, ferny’s glideo will be ready soon(hopefully)….if it works well, then even i wont go to paylowmusic….
September 8th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Is posting working well?
September 8th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
@ JMR,
(And everybody!)
Starting from now, you can play music videos at 400×300. I hope you like it.
The look and feel, and functionality of the website to be updated from today, but it will be sent just a feature by feature.. because there still some bugs I am working on.
I hope you notice the new updates and features.
Have fun people!
September 9th, 2007 at 12:11 am
@paylowmusic
i cant watch /download any video in that quality…u still havent updated your site?
September 9th, 2007 at 1:49 am
I will start enabling the new features one by one.
Should I get back to the old 320X240?
I will!
September 9th, 2007 at 3:04 am
@paylowmusic
well, update it fast so that we can watch videos in that 400×300 quality….
September 9th, 2007 at 3:36 am
It’s updated as soon as I wrote the last comment!
September 9th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Impotant note for FireFox users:
The video is viewed for you inside 400X300 rectangle, but it will be a smaller than 400X300, so you will need to play a higher resolutions/bitrates to make the video better.
For internet explorer, it works very well.
I am solving this tricky issue, so even if FireFox users play 56 bitrate, they will be able to play it in a full 400X300 (Although it is not recommended!)
Cheers!
September 9th, 2007 at 5:53 am
could not download videos in 400×300 format using firefox….
September 9th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Apoorva…
What is the bit rate you ‘re using?
You should use a higher bit rate, at least 300KB, to be able to download it in 400×300.
Also, you could use internet explorer.
I am working on it, and it will be fully available today.
If you need more help, consider contacting me at: support@paylowmusic.com
September 9th, 2007 at 7:16 am
hahaha, I dont think you understand what people are asking for. People want to see the video at 400×300 resolution not for you to change the code in the PHP to change the size of the player from 320×240 to 400×300 because in the end if people download the video it still will be at 320×240
September 9th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Well,
To JJR,
Thank you for the clearance, but I guess I understand what are people looking for, and that’s why if anybody visits the website using Internet Explorer, you will find it with the size 400×300.
And anyway, I think it is not recommended, because it extends the video although it has a low resolution, and this also make the resolution more lower.
It does not make a sense if you play 56 KB video in a 400×300, because it won’t be that clear.
So, if you play it with 300 KB rate or greater in FireFox, you will find it extended more.
Anyway, everybody will be able to choose the size of the video’s rectangle, and this will be determined via preferences to save it.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:35 am
@paylowmusic
forget it dude…i am happy with the 700 kbps 320×240 videos….if u can get real dvd quality videos on your site(not by extending the rectangle or something like that),it will be good…
the thing is yahoo mostly doesn’t have dvd quality videos…otherwise, some geek would have discovered a way to download/watch them long ago…
and i wont use IE, i like firefox and i will stick to firefox…
September 9th, 2007 at 9:37 am
and by the way, let me also suggest users to visit joox.net,a pretty good site for good quality music videos(and JJR, joox.net is not paying me anything!!!)
September 9th, 2007 at 10:16 am
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
We are sure Apoorva that “nobody” pays you anything.
And yes, Apoorva, you will be able from tommorrow, to download “directly” a high quality music videos in all formats.
You and everybody of course.
September 9th, 2007 at 10:23 am
my question is, how are getting very high quality videos from yahoo music?
yahoo music highest quality is 768kb and if you make that “DVD quality”
you didn’t do anything to the quality because you can scale down and it will look better but if you scale up then there is no data beyond 768 so in fact you are just stretching it and its not looking any different.
September 9th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Yes Ferny,
It’s true. You ‘re right, but I will not offer the DVD quality videos from Yahoo!, because as you said, the highest available quality is 768KB, and it’s all served by MMS server, which means whatever I do… it all depends on the server parsing.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Please note that if I don’t offer DVD quality from Yahoo!, it does not mean that I won’t offer the DVD quality.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
You’re one funny guy.
September 11th, 2007 at 7:05 am
@paylowmusic
I’m waiting…………………………..
September 11th, 2007 at 7:11 am
@paylowmusic
and one more thing, you can make your site more appealing and more organized like ferny’s…
September 11th, 2007 at 7:19 am
There no site is like Ferny’s site.
Ferny is very talented designer.
September 14th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
@ PayLow
Whatup? It has been a couple of weeks. Where’s our DVD quality video or the 700k 400×300 feed? Is that still gonna happen?
September 15th, 2007 at 1:39 am
lyfox seems like a great site..I just have a question.. Why is it that none of the videos I search show the mms url.. I mean 1 video outta 20 show the mms code, is that normal? I do everything right.. just no mms. Any help would be appreaciated.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:09 am
@curios
why do you think i am going to paylow’s site to download site?
its for the exact same reason as yours….ferny’s lyfox.php site doesnt generate mms urls for all the videos….so till his glideo is ready(and working properly),i guess you will have to look at other sites…
i suggest you try stage6.com…
September 15th, 2007 at 8:53 am
@ apoorva
thanks man.. yea ive been using stage6 for a lil while now..I actually think its the best videosite out there in terms of quality and once ppl start hearin bout it it’ll take over sites like youTube..
lyFox is a good site tho, good job Ferna, hopefully it’ll only get better.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Well I got tired of waiting so I re-wrote the code from scratch and now I can get full 700k 400×300 streams or greater and is complete with MMS link so no need to snoop for it anymore. The 320×240 feed is also available as that is sometimes an older feed that is different from the new and some are without the logo.
It is using Flash for preview so it is 100% cross-browser compliant. The search fully functional and is capable of serving other countries as well where Yahoo serves videos (UK, Canada, France, etc.) although I haven’t implemented it yet.
I am finishing up the code for AOL also. They serve as high as (or more) 1.5M 640×480 streams and can be downloaded in a buffet of media (wma, mov or flv) format. Now that’s really is near DVD quality.
I may even set it for other video site as well when time permits.
Stay tuned for more info…….
September 19th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Project complete! It is now ready for beta testing.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
So is it like PayLowMu$ic that has ads everywhere and with promises never fulfilled?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
jjr, what’s your email?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:58 am
jarjarjr [ -at- ] g mail [ dot ] com
September 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
@ JMR
my email is chandarkm[at]rediffmail[dot]com
September 21st, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Hey all, feel free to test it out.
You will find VideoBot @:
http://videobot.cashresource.net
Just make note that it is constantly being updated,
so just have patience if it seems to have some
“hiccups” from time to time.
ENJOY!
September 21st, 2007 at 2:36 pm
@JMR
looks and feels nice….really well organized…and the best part is no ads…
i could not paste the mms url in flashget even after it said that “mms url copied”….
September 21st, 2007 at 2:40 pm
@JMR
its working well now…no problems…..thanks mate…..superb site….
September 21st, 2007 at 5:44 pm
@JMR
Amazing! That is what I’m talking about. No ads, no fake promises. Just a “Im working on it” and “Here it is”
A great lessons for many that want to take advantage about the free software by creating sites around free stuff and pasting ads all around the applications. I wont mention names or links so I don’t offend anyone
Again, superb work!
September 21st, 2007 at 6:06 pm
the copy mms code doesnt work, in the source code you can see the mms code for the 400×300 but it doesnt work it only works for 320×240… works great tho!
September 21st, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Ok, the “Copy MMS” should work for FireFox now. Thanks for letting me know.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:27 am
goodbye paylowmusic….i found videobot!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:35 am
this might be alittle off topic but does anybody know of a free program that removes those pesky logos that some videos have either on the bottom right or upper right corner.. i have heard there out there but i am unsure off which one is the best to use..
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:43 pm
@curios
i dont think its possible to remove the logo/watermark without loss of some quality…
but i think you can crop the video using virtualdub or something like that….
September 24th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Well
I have a suggestion to make. I’ll even try to code it myself sometime.
On local instalations of phplyfox ( i mean apache/linux env but it will work for others), you can add vars to remember Artist/Songname, and then on the mms url page add a button that performs something like `mencoder -aoc copy – ovc copy $mms_url -o “$dest_dir/$Artist – $Songname.asf”`. Well $dest_dir must also be specified and writable by the apache user, and even mencoder does not have to be hardcoded – it may be $helper configurable.
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:39 am
In videobot, somehow I couldn’t download any videos from AOL because there was a message that told me it’s not available for my area. Fix it, please!:(
October 4th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
@ Lord Castrey
Your best bet would be to use a proxy. Also COMMENTS section is now available at the VideoBot site for questions or inquiry.
October 11th, 2007 at 1:59 am
@Apoorva
DVD rips arent avaiable for every artist, are they? Thats the point of using LyFox and GAMV
November 17th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I am having a problem with yahoo error 999 it seems that error is given for banning urls that generate too much bandwidth. After a few hours problem goes away and the php script works again. I know this is the error because i did echo $wp to see what it was receiving. When I have this error and I goto your page or paylowmusic and doing a search and it works fine. How are you keeping your ip’s from getting banned?
January 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Easy, Replay Media Catcher records any launch video at the highest resolution, it also catches streams of any kind. Videos are saved as .flv and music as .mp3. I would have LOVED to have LyFox work again, but this is the easiest, and best alternative I have found.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Hello everybody! Hello Ferny!
If any of you interested in participating in Pay Low Music!’s beta program, to test the new beta version of Pay Low Music!, then please go there: http://www.paylowmusic.com/beta and you will earn money from participating in the program.
Good luck everybody!
March 9th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Hi Guys, there’s a free way to download these videos incredibly quickly and transfer them incredibly easily into iTunes:
1. Go to (http://www.flip4mac.com/) and download the latest version of flip4mac.
2. Once installed, in addition to being able to play .wmv files on quicktime, Flip4Mac will give you the option of saving any video played in quicktime.
3. Go into Lyfox
4. Locate your song
5. Wait for the song to download itself completely, and then using the Dropdown Flip4mac menu option, select ‘Save as Quicktime Movie’
6. At this point, your file has been saved to your hard drive. Open the file via iTunes and voila! You have a decent quality music video located in your itunes playlists!
Ferny: Go ahead and delete this if you don’t want this known, but it is pretty handy!
March 20th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
hey guys was using Videobot for the longest time to download my videos. does anyone here know if it is down now? i can’t get yahoo videos to show up anymore, only AOL videos.
thanks
J5
April 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Yes, J5.
VideoBot is down because Yahoo! has changed it’s player, so the code does not work any more.
The only code that works is the one at Pay Low Music!
Feel free to try it:
http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/?search=Rihanna
We have removed all advertisements, and we are placing only 1 ad per page now.
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 am
The only problem of Pay Low Music is that there’s no way to download the video. Or is there? tell me please…
April 26th, 2008 at 4:05 am
It would technically be possible to download a Flash decompiler to decipher the Flash variables.
We start off with a web-page URL such as this:
http://www.paylowmusic.com/musicvideos/player?videoid=44958946&artist=Avril%20Lavigne&video=Girlfriend%20(Fans%20Only%20Video)
Our next step is to retrieve the necessary Flash variables. To do this, go to File->View Source (or similar based on web-browser). Press Ctrl+F to bring up the Find dialog, and search for “object”. The next two lines should look something like this:
The relevant part of this is the value of the movie and flashVars parameters:
http://d.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/fop/embedflv/swf/fop.swf
id=v44958946&eID=1301797&enableFullScreen=1&autoStart=1
The Flash variables have been URL-encoded so we’ll need to change the “&”s to “&”s.
id=v44958946&eID=1301797&enableFullScreen=1&autoStart=1
And now combine the two with a ‘?’:
http://d.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/fop/embedflv/swf/fop.swf?id=v44958946&eID=1301797&enableFullScreen=1&autoStart=1
Point your browser there and you’ve got ad-free videos…one at a time.
To actually get a link to the video file itself you will need to Google “Flash decompiler” and find a decent one that will allow you to view the scripts. And you’ll need at least a basic understanding of scripting (preferably JavaScript) to be able to extract the filename.
The file will probably be in FLV format (it is becoming more common as a system-independent video format (being as it is FLash Video)) which you’ll probably need to convert to play anyway.
However, this is all speculative, and would vary from video to video. Also, if you find a decent free Flash decompiler, do let me know!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Hello,
If you want me to place the mms link, so you can copy it and download the video, I would do it.
I have made it in flash format, because it loads faster, and also because I have many visitors who are on Mac and Linux systems.
Anyway, you can also download Real player 11 for free, and you can easily download the music videos in flash format so easily.
Please, if you want me to place the MMS link, so you can download the video, let me know here.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:34 am
@monkey_05_06
I’ve used Replay Media Catcher (www.download.com/Replay-Media-Catcher/3000-13633_4-10644938.html) to capture flv video from embed video player like PayLowMusic’s player. The link is rtmp, not mms and it’s so far can only be downloaded using this software. The only lack is that the download speed too damn slow for me. From usually 30 KB/s in flashget, it became 6 KB/s only.
@PayLowMusic
I would love to see the MMS link!! VideoBot has lately only showed up “syntax error” message and newest AOL videos cannot be downloaded too. Please… I’ve been using Lyfox since April 2006 and these 2 months absolutely the longest stagnant I’ve ever had for downloading Yahoo! music videos.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
@LordCastrey
The mms link is going to show again under the flash video, and you will be able to copy it.
Just few hours from now, or maximum tomorrow.
You are welcome for any other requests.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:47 am
@PayLowMusic!
The MMS still not showed up…
Anyway, I’ve found out that in VideoBot, new music videos in AOL that labeled Universal will be blocked by Akamai Ghost. The other so far didn’t. I’ve also found out that some new music videos didn’t showed up when clicked (like The Best Damn Thing, Avril Lavigne) so you must back to GAMV to download it.
I don’t know if this only happen because I’m not living in United States…
November 8th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
So, is this project dead now?