subject: How to Save Youtube Videos Onto Your Computer [print this page] How to Save Youtube Videos Onto Your Computer
Have you ever been to Youtube and wanted to save the video on your computer to view later with no load times?
There are a few great methods to use in order to extract the video from Youtube. The easiest method to save online video is to visit the site http://www.keepvid.com
Once on the site, you will notice a bar at the top where you can input text. What you want to do is find the Youtube video you'd like to save, and copy the URL. For example if the Youtube video you want to save is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1AZE1dpe4
You would type in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1AZE1dpe4 in the input box. After you type this URL in, click download.
You will be directed to a new page which will ask you if you want to run an applet. Click Run' and you will then be provided with a list of all available media to download on that particular page. With Youtube videos you will often see videos of varying quality, so you have a choice of whether to download the low-resolution, or high-resolution videos.
This trick will also work for other popular media sharing sites such as Dailymotion, Metacafe, Google Video etc.
In addition to keepvid.com, there are other sites which will allow you to do similar tasks such as keepv.com or videodownloader.net. If you wanted a standalone plugin to do the same job, there is an awesome plugin for Mozilla Firefox which will allow you to download any media on the page you are currently visiting. You can download the plugin called DownloadHelper from the Mozilla Firefox plugin interface.
