Download video from YouTube

Everyday, plentiful video clips are uploaded to YouTube.com. Somebody say that these sites will disappear soonest, due to obvious copyright infringement issues, and then, why not to download those good video clips and save to our computer/iPod/PSP before they're gone forever? Here I will show you to get around this possibility and copy videos from YouTube.com.

Find a favourite video clip from YouTube.com

YouTube.com seems to have the greatest variety of video clips, from classic skatevideos, to old commercials, to archived music videos, etc. Go to choice a favourite one.

Download it and save as the FLV file

For Internet Explorer (PC) users

Find a favourite video clip, copy the url link which is located right below the video you've chosen and paste it to the “URL:” box from the site . After clicking on the “search” button, [Download Link] would be showed. You only need to right-click the [Download Link] and save the file.

Note: rename the file extension from *.php to *.flv when saving it. So, the FLV video file was saved to your computer.The FLV file isn’t widely used, so you need to download a special player to play the file. Freeware FLV Player is highly recommended. Download FLY Player .

For Internet Explorer (Mac) users

Search your hard drive for a file called "get_video". You can use Spotlight to find the file.

Copy it to your Desktop

Rename the file extension from *.php to *.flv.

Convert the FLV file

There are many programs to convert the FLV file. Mac users may look at iSquint. It's a free application. It can be downloaded at http://www.isquint.org/ . PC users has the powerful FLV Converter (recommend). It can convert FLV to AVI, FLV to MPEG, FLV to WMV, iPod, PSP, DVD, MOV, MP3, etc. You can also using the FLV to MPG iPod SWF Converter to convert FLV to AVI, convert FLV to MPEG.

Software Directories