www.tudou.com: How to download streaming video from Tudou

Replay Media Catcher is one of the best streaming audio/video recording programs. It can download streaming audio/video of the most popular formats and protocols, including HTTP .FLV streaming video from www.tudou.com.

Replay Media Catcher is compatible with Windows 7 / Vista / XP. You can also use Replay Media Catcher on Mac OS X (tested on Snow Leopard) or use RMC on Linux (tested on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx) with freeware Wine emulator. Alternatively you can install Replay Media Catcher on a Mac with Windows using Bootcamp or Parallels Desktop for Max OS X.

We recommend you to try to download streaming media from Tudou using a FREE demo version of Replay Media Catcher. Note that even if you buy Replay Media Catcher, it comes with 30-day unconditional money back gurantee, so you have nothing to lose anyway.

How to download HTTP .FLV streaming video with Replay Media Catcher from www.tudou.com on Windows 7, Vista or XP

Download Replay Media Catcher (Tudou web downloader) and install it. It is free to try.
Launch Replay Media Catcher. It appears like this:
Click the Start Recording button. (Note: With many web-sites it is necessary to click the Start Recording button before navigating to the site. So please start recording before opening Tudou in your web-browser.) The button changes like this:
Launch your web-browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome...) and navigate to www.tudou.com.
Note that we recommend to launch your web-browser from Replay Media Catcher by clicking Record -> Launch Default Browser.
Play the streaming video you want to download from Tudou. Files recorded from www.tudou.com (and other web-sites) start appearing in the files list like this:
Once recording starts, you don't need to watch what you're recording. You can stop watching or listening, leave www.tudou.com, and go play something else to download. Recording continues automatically.
Click Stop Recording when you're finished recording media streams from Tudou and other web-sites.

How to Extract MP3's from FLV video files recorded from Tudou

If you've ever watched an FLV video from Tudou (or any other Flash Video file), and wanted the soundtrack, Replay Media Catcher has a tool you can use to extract the audio as an MP3 file. Here's how to do it:

Select Tools, Extract MP3 from FLV from the menu.
Locate the FLV file from Tudou, and select Open. The Extract MP3 screen appears:
Set the name of the MP3 file as you like it (For example, you can leave the name of the FLV video from Hulu Tudou and just change the extension to .MP3), and click Save.
Your MP3 file will be created in seconds.

Note that the FLV extraction tool of Replay Media Catcher allows you to convert FLV files to MP3 losslessly (i.e. you won't lose any quality when extracting MP3 audio tracks from Tudou).

How to download HTTP .FLV streaming video with Replay Media Catcher from www.tudou.com on Mac OS X

Freeware Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems like Mac OS. With freeware Wine for Mac OS, freeware WineBottler for Mac OS, shareware Crossover for Mac OS you can install and run Windows applications just like you would in Windows. You don't need a Windows license to run Replay Media Catcher on Mac OS:
How to install and run Replay Media Catcher on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

How to download HTTP .FLV streaming video with Replay Media Catcher from www.tudou.com on Linux

Freeware Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems like Linux. With freeware Wine for Linux or shareware Crossover for Linux you can run Windows applications just like you would in Windows. You don't need a Windows license to run Replay Media Catcher on Linux:
How to install and run Replay Media Catcher in Linux (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala)

Overview: Tudou

Tudou offers streaming video. It broadcasts HTTP .FLV streams.

Legal note: Is it legal to download streaming video from Tudou?

All-streaming-media.com is not affiliated with Tudou (www.tudou.com), nor the company that owns the trademark rights to Tudou. This tutorial is provided for educational purposes only. Replay Media Catcher is intended for use as a personal archiving tool only. Please respect the rights of the copyright holders of any material you download. If you like a broadcast you've recorded, please buy the media! Our web-site is not intended to be a replacement for the media stores, rather it allows you to listen/watch and make an educated purchase.

Links to Tudou, Replay Media Catcher and other Tudou downloaders

Replay Media Catcher - One of the best streaming audio/video recorders
Replay Capture Suite - Complete recording solution
The best streaming audio/video recording programs
All streaming audio/video recording software
All streaming audio ripping software
Tudou

I can't download from Tudou with Replay Media Catcher. What should I do?

If you have problems recording/downloading/ripping audio/video streams from Tudou using this tutorial, please post about it in our Streaming audio/video recording forum. The following links may also help you to find a Tudou downloader/ripper:

Links to this tutorial

Last check: 2009.01.24


Copyright © All-Streaming-Media.Com, 2003-09	Feedback \| Suggest a link \| Report error	Disclaimer	Link to us

Note: Streaming audio/video recorders are not intended for use in circumventing copy protection mechanisms or for making illegal copies of copyrighted content. Please respect the rights of the content owners when recording.