<<< UPDATE NOTICE: Due to the overwhelming amount of comments and the fact that this article was written over 8 months ago, I decided it was time to update it with the latest tools, websites, and tips available to download videos from the internet >>>
It’s been close to 8 months since I published this article, since then the integration of YouTube and Google Videohas been completed, YouTube is pretty much the one stop shop for videos online. In case you are interested in videos from social sites like MySpace, Facebook, and others, the tips listed below will help you quickly and easily get that content on your computer.Download YouTube videos
Site #1 - iDesktop.tv
You can download YouTube videos using iDesktop.tv, you simply go to the site and click on the download link. You are given the option to download that video in multiple formats, MPEG, MOV, AVI, and many others.
why not save/download the video before it’s too late ?
Steps to save/download the video from youtube
For Internet Explorer (PC) users
1) Click your favourite video clip, you can see the URL in your browser becomes something like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCcCEqD117U
2) highlight the URL, “copy” & “paste” to Youtube Robot url and click “+” button
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Result for: MPEG
Download Videos From YouTube - Considering the craze over YouTube and MySpace that has overtaken the world as of late, there is an increasing demand to learn how to rip video and audio from pages on these sites. I’ll first go over how to rip video clips with a guide on how to rip audio to follow. Now the only sticking point with this guide is that it requires you to use the Mozilla Firefox internet browser. So if you aren’t using Firefox already, now’s the time to do so.
Next we need to download and install the VIDEO DOWNLOADER extension tool for Firefox.Download Videos From YouTube
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This will be followed by a simple dialogue box that merely notes how one must restart Firefox for the Video Downloader extension to be fully installed.
So now that we’ve finished installing and setting up the Video Downloader tool, it’s time to take it for a test drive.
Start by going to a YouTube or MySpace page of your own choosing. One you are on the page with the embedded video you wish to copy click on the Video Downloader tool on Firefox’s toolbar as pictured below.
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Result for: MPEG
Converting YouTube videos from is very easy using VideoGet. With VideoGet you can easily convert YouTube videos to DIVX, XVid, AVI, WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2, H.264, FLV, 3GP, DVD, VCD, SVCD, MP3, WAV, QuickTime. Also you can easily convert YouTube video for iPhone, iPod Video, iPod Nano, iPod Touch, PSP, Zune, iRiver Clix, AppleTV and another portable devices and mobile phones.
How To Convert YouTube Video to another format
