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.
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Downloading YouTube Videos is very simple but to some people it looks impossible. Don’t give up yet, it can be done very easily if you know how.
If you’re using Mac OS X:
1. Visit the YouTube video page, let the video load and open Safari’s Activity window.
2.Rename the file to something descriptive. You can now use a video converter to convert the video to iPod, etc.
3.Double-click the link/URL of the video file to download it and save it on your pc.
You can download all the YouTube videos you want and save them on your PC. You can even watch them on your iPod, Zune, PSP or any similar media player device. This article shows you a simple method that you can use to download and save videos from the YouTube website. Lets get started.
Follow these easy steps if you’re using Windows:
1. You will need some software to help you achieve this task so first download and install the free Firefox web browser and the Greasemonkey extension for this browser.
2. To download YouTube videos, just load the video as usual and click on the “Download Video” beneath the screen to save the file to your computer. You may find it helpful to rename the video into something descriptive at this stage. You can now use any video converter to convert your video to iPod, PSP or Zune compatible.
There is also some other type of software that you can use to download YouTube videos and save them on your PC. The method outlined above is just one of the many different methods that you can use. There are many other ways to download videos from YouTube but as you can see this method is very easy to do.
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How to Save YouTube Videos
Many of you out there probably have used YouTube before. It’s that nifty little site where you can watch the lives and antics of millions of people out there.
And then you probably came across a video clip you wish you could have saved onto your computer for a later viewing. Well, now you can!
Required Tools
1) FLV Player , a interactive media player
2) Greasemonkey, an addon for Mozilla Firefox
Instructions
1) Install Greasemonkey onto your Firefox browser by clicking on the download link at the link above.
2) Now, every time you watch a Youtube video, there should be a little red bar at the top of your window that says “Save As to download flash video”.
3) Save it to whatever name you want, but add on the extension of “.flv” at the end of the name.
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