If you want to get videos off YouTube you are not alone! Millions of people use YouTube and are damn near addicted to it (I know I am) and many of these YouTube addicts want to grab those videos for their own home computer, iPod or other portable device for a variety of reasons.
Before YouTube takes it down! - Often the best stuff is taken down by YouTube because some company gets its panties in a twist and demands it be removed. If you can save it quickly then you will not lose it!
Slow net connection - If you internet connection is quit slow you do not want to reload those videos every time, just once then saving them is a lot easier for your favorites.
Mobile access - While getting internet anywhere you want is a current technology it is expensive and YouTube takes a lot of bandwidth making viewing YouTube from a mobile device long and costly.
Presentations - Some fantastic videos can be used for business and school presentations but you do not always have a net connection and even if you do waiting for a long video to load can ruin your flow.
The problem is to get videos off YouTube you need to be very tech savvy and understand the file formats and the way it is embedded into the page code because YouTube does everything it can to stop you downloading the videos (unlike Google vids).
If you do not have time for this then there is an easier way to get videos off YouTube with programs the super geeks have already developed!
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Download video off YouTube - Have you ever watched a video on youtube.com and found it so profound, so hilarious, or so moving that you wished you could yank it off and stick it on your iPod or save it to your computer? Well, you’re not the only one. Many people wish to remove video’s from these sites.
There have been many ways to do this published before, the original ones complicated and often difficult for the average user to do. Others work, but result in lower video quality. And finally, many save the video’s in an obscure video format that is not compatible with mp3 players or computers.
The first thing to do when preparing to download video off YouTube is to download the necessary software. While there are many software packages that will allow you to do this, there are some features to watch for: what format does the video get saved in, and what does the software cost?
You want the video to be saved as either .avi, .mpeg, .amv, or .wmv; and if you’re like most people, you want a free program.
The best program I have found to date that will meets all the needs of a user perfectly while remaining absolutely free is VDownloader. A simple, free program, simply install it onto your desktop, then follow the directions below:
Be sure that BROWSE VIDEOS is set to youtube.com
The link to the youtube.com page usually popups automatically in VDownloader, but sometimes you must manually insert it. Simply copy and paste the address from the browser into VDownloader URL.
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Even YouTube’s most enthusiastic fans (like Michael Wesch, whose Anthropology of YouTube video we mentioned recently) tend to overlook one very disappointing fact — you can’t easily save videos to your hard drive.Luckily it turns out that, while YouTube certainly doesn’t make it easy, it is in fact possible to download and save videos for offline viewing. In fact, there’s a whole cottage industry of developers building tools that allow you to download YouTube videos.
Lifehacker points us to YouTube File Hack, which can be used as either a standalone application or from Internet Explorer via a menu item that offers to download YouTube videos. I took it for a spin this morning and it does indeed work. Now I have my very own copy of skateboarding dog lovingly preserved for all eternity.
While YouTube File Hack is the easiest tool I’ve tested for IE users, it isn’t the only means of grabbing a YouTube movie.Safari users have it easy, just open up Activity Monitor and double click the actual video file. Safari will happily download an FLV for you. Firefox users can check out Lifehacker’s Better YouTube extension which uses Greasemonkey script to insert a “download this video” link next to every YouTube movie.
There are several other Firefox plugin out there, as well as a few other standalone apps. If you have a favorite method be sure to let us know.
