How to Download Videos From YouTube
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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NOTE: Be sure that the download path for Firefox is set up to your personal preferences as shown in the sequence of images that follow.
Selecting “Options…” from the “Tools” tab will bring up the Options menu.
In the Options menu simply choose the desired save path for your files and then select “OK” to finish.
To convert the video files to .AVI or .MPEG, the quickest and easiest method is to use WinAVI. There’s a guide here on Zeropaid that goes over how to convert them titled DVD Authoring with WinAVI. Instead of selecting “DVD” of course where it asks for the desired output type, choose MPEG 1.
Now that we’ve selected and saved the video from whichever site was chosen, it’s time to go over how to play them on your PC. They are “.SWV” or Shockwave Video files so in order to properly play them we must either convert them to .AVI, .MPEG, etc.for playback on normal media players like Windows Media Player or WinAmp, or one can simply use the illustrious VLC Player where no further work is required.
Personally, I recommend using VLC Player, as its’s the fastest and easiest way to playback your downloaded video files. It also comes in handy when trying to play .BIN or .ISO files as well
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