DYouTube has been designed to just enable users to view and enjoy movies on their site. Most users need to save their favourite movies to their own computer so they can view them without being connected to the Web or so they can view them on other devices. Below are the steps required for downloading and watching YouTube movies on your personal computer at no cost.
There are many online websites that allow you to enter the URL of the video you wish to save to your pc, and get a link to download the record. Below is a short listing of some of the most popular free sites.
http://www.savevid.com/
http://keepvid.com/
Below is a simple tutorial of how to save a video using Savevid. These steps are often very similar with other services used to save YouTube and other flash videos on-line.
Go to the YouTube video page and copy the URL of the video you want to save. For example, below is a URL to a video on Youtube.com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96pqXQVvFM
Once this address has been copied, visit SaveVid and paste that URL into the URL text field, then click the Submit or Download button.
When done properly, the webpage should open a new window or show a link to each of the video formats that can be saved. Savevid will allow you the choice to save the video as FLV, 3GP, MP4 and WebM format. If you're wanting to watch this video on the computer we recommend saving the video as MP4 format.
Converting YouTube video to various movie formats
There are dozens of different software programs and online services available that will allow you to convert FLV files into another format. Download here: http://www.media-video-converter.com/video-converter/
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youtube videos often shows as .flv file extension, so just convert flv files to mp4, avi, mov format ect.
http://www.ilikemall.com/how-to/convert-flv-to-mov-mac.html
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