Download Vedio from YouTube

Many people are watching YouTube videos every day. But some are thinking to keep the videos they watch within their desktop. Although You Tube's video format does not allow to save the video directly into PC. It uses a different video format. It is not mpg, wmv, mov, dat, avi or nothing what we regularly use. Its own video format is ".FLV".

A day before I wanted to download a video from You Tube. I ran around the Google, yahoo, forums, etc. etc. to find a way. Eventually I got a way to download them. It is simple. See what I did.


The first thing that helped me is Mozilla Fire fox's Video Downloader Plugin.

I downloaded it from Mozilla Video Downloder Add-on Page.

This plugin supports to download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion, Pornotube... and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc).

After downloading and installing this plugin Firefox adds an icon in the Task Bar bottom of the window showing Video Downloader.


The way to download Video from You Tube

• Go to the You Tube page that contains the video that you need to download.
• When the page is opened, Click the Video Downloader icon in the task bar.
• The following window will appear.

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• Click the Download Link button.

The video will be downloded to the specified location when you clicked.


Now the Downlaed is complete !!!!!

Now the Video is downloaded. But it cannot be played in regular Media Players. It need a separate player and to be renamed with the extension (.FLV).

To play the Video follow the steps below.

• Rename the downloaded file to the extension .flv(select the downloaded file -> pres F2 -> type ".flv" at the end of the file name).
• Then Download the FLV player (This is a light weight player that need to play .flv files).
• Download locatoion -> http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html
• Install it.

Now it is dOne!!

Double click your Downloaded video file or open it from FLV player.


Now the video is inside my PC. And I have player for that.
Nice!! This is what I did !!!!!