You found an interesting video from youtube and you want to save/download it to your computer and later share it with your friend or keep it as a collection. However, by default Youtube doesn't allow users to save/download the videos. It only allow user to send a hyperlink to the friends and invite them to go to youtube website to view the videos.
It will become a problem because these video may gone forever due to copyright infringement issues, why not save/download the video before it's too late ?
Steps to save/download the video from youtube :
1) Click your favourite video clip, you can see the URL in your browser becomes something like this :
2) highlight the URL (like above) and replace youtube with voobys in url then press enter.
Eg :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCpM04gw3ms
http://www.voobys.com/watch?v=YCpM04gw3ms (after replacement)
3) then you will see this page
4) Select the version of your choice ( Version 1 is recommended) then click the download button3 .
5) Then Save the file & you are done .
5) The .flv file is not a common multimedia file, you need a software called FLV player to play it. Click here to get Free FLV Player . OR you can play it with Video Lan Codec (VLC) . Click here to get free VLC player.
6) Install the FLV player into your computer.
7) Select the video clip that you downloaded and play
8) If you want to convert the FLV video and play it in IPod, PSP, mobile phone(3GP format), then you need to download FLV Converter.
Now Enjoy seeing your video!!! Have a nice day!
