How to Download Videos from Youtube

Submitted by Srikanth on Sunday, 5 October 200813 Comments

Here is the most easiest way to download videos from Youtube and convert it into other formats.Most of the sites give you some confusing way to download videos from Youtube, but here is an easy way. Here is step-by-step guide to download videos from Youtube.

STEP-1. DOWNLOADING THE VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE

Basically the video that you want to download from Youtube will be in the .flv format. So first, when you download videos from Youtube, it will be saved in .flv format.

Once you get the video URL, you can use any one of the following sites/plugins to download Youtube videos .

Download Youtube Videos - Download Youtube Videos is one of the most widely site to download videos from Youtube in the .flv format. Here you’ll see a box to enter the download URL. Just enter the URL here and click on download to save the video.
KissYouTube - KissYouTube offers an easiest way to download videos from Youtube. Just visit the site and you’ll find a box to enter the video URL. In this box enter the URL of the video you want to download and click on GO. Next you will see a Download Button. Click on the download button and save the Youtube video with the extension as .flv .
Download Helper - Download Helper is an excellent firefox plugin to download videos from Youtube.
My Video Downloader - MyVideo Downloader will Download and convert videos from many sites, not just YouTube.

STEP-2. CONVERTING THE YOUTUBE VIDEO FROM .FLV TO OTHER FORMATS

Once you download the video ,you can use any of the freely available/commercial video conversion softwares. But here in this tutorial I prefer SUPER Video Converter to convert the downloaded Youtube video. SUPER is a freeware and supports a variety of formats. The speciality of this video converter is that it supports almost all the formats. Once you convert the Youtube downloaded video to MPEG format you’ll be able to play it with Windows Media Player.

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13 Comments »

steven said:

aight..this might help also… copy paste the link from youtube, google or any video website..then go to this website

http://keepvid.com

copy paste the link and select which video link it is..and press download…when it ask you to save the video save it as name and extension should be .flv..after downloading download flv player its free..
http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-13632_4-10467081.html
all the videos will play on flv player..or you can use the software recommended by the main poster also to convert in other formates.

thanks

- 21 November 2008 at 7:32 PM

coolpankaj91 said:

you can also use SAVETUBE .com for the video downloads……there you can find total video convertor as well as flv player to run the videos…..in the tools menu on the left hand upper corner …..or u can use the above 2 choices.its upto u

- 11 December 2008 at 11:29 PM

eminem said:

yo thanks it works

- 1 January 2009 at 8:58 PM

Slim0123 said:

Everything you see on your PC’s monitor is somewhere saved on your computer so that it can display it……….

So y not you ever tried to find where these video files are??

The best thing to do without any software is that, open up the video in Internet Explorer(as many as you like but dont close any window)….
When all of these videos are completely cached(stored on your pc), just open command prompt and enter

cd %userprofile%
dir/s get_video*.*

then just look for the path where these files are stored and copy them to another folder

rename each file and give it extension .flv in short just type

ren *.* *.flv

(in the same folder where the files are)
and then just double click the files and they’ll open up(in vlc player or in windows media player(if you hav installed a codec pack))

- 3 January 2009 at 9:40 PM

eminem said:

to slimo123 itried it but i dont knw exactly y it didnt work??

- 21 January 2009 at 8:07 PM

ahmed said:

@ anyone i tried OJOsoft Total Video Converter but is says it will change only 20% of the video ??!! can any1 help .

- 26 January 2009 at 6:44 PM

Josh said:

Hey,

why not try Free Studio Manager, it works great for me an its totally free!

- 2 May 2009 at 11:52 PM

H@ck@dy said:

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- 10 December 2009 at 5:31 AM

gourav said:

i download u tube videos by replacing “youtube” with “voobys” in the url and it works…..

- 28 December 2009 at 4:42 PM

AkylA said:

What about using SUPER® to convert? Converts everything to everything

- 9 January 2010 at 7:48 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ AkylA

SUPER is a great utility. You can use it for sure!

- 21 January 2010 at 4:03 PM

Dina said:

If you download video from youtube and facebook, etc. try Convert-tune.
http:// convert-tune. com /index .html
It works good for me. I download video from different websites and Convert-tune works very well.
It converts video to WMV and AVI, and other formats. And it converts audio also to WMA, WAV, MP3, etc. There is a feature I like, ‘surf and catch video’.

- 30 June 2010 at 12:40 PM

Nick said:

great, thanks for advice

- 26 September 2010 at 9:54 PM