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How do you Mirror a video on YouTube?

Asked by RareDenver (13173points) November 5th, 2009

I often see video’s where the user asks you to mirror the video, is it simply a case of downloading the video with something like DownloadHelper and then uploading it through your own account, or is there some sort of Mirror function I’m missing?

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Samurai's avatar

Yeah, that’s what your suppose to do when they ask that I think.

poisonedantidote's avatar

download the video, with some downloader, or zamzar.com then upload it to your channel. make sure you put (mirror) in the title, and give it the same description as the original. then, if you like. post it as a video response to the original.

if its a video that is at risk of being taken down, after you download it you may want to run it through windows movie maker, maybe add one all black frame at the end, so the codec and file size is different (this makes it harder for youtube to find and delete it) ... also, if its at risk of being taken down, you may not want to post it as a video response.

RareDenver's avatar

@Samurai & @poisonedantidote thanks guy’s. I was thought it would be that (I’m terribly lazy and was hoping for a magic ‘mirror’ button somewhere)

Thammuz's avatar

download and reupload, it’s the only way.

jrpowell's avatar

I’m not really sure if this helps but I found a super simple way of downloading videos from Youtube in safari.

Window—> Activity
Option + double click on the video. It will most likely be the biggest file.

A not so short video demonstrating it. The video isn’t necessary. I just wanted to play with ScreenFlow.

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camisole's avatar

just use tubemirror.com that works always for me

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