subject: Windows Movie Maker & File Conversion [print this page] "While viewing one of your favorite movies, or any other program for that matter, on YouTube, at times, you would have wished you could download that program and save your self it on your personal computer and add it your group of videos, enabling you to watch it any time again or share it along with your friends,even after YouTube has removed it. But, you could have felt handicapped as there is absolutely no alternative made available from YouTube to download or save your self the exact same. Thankfully, you can find ways to download your favorites programs as on YouTube. Listed here is one way that allows YouTube programs to be downloaded by you easily and rapidly:
At the start you need to get YouTube file to your personal computer. Thankfully, these days you have many on-line websites that allow you to enter the URL of the video you would really like to save well on your personal computer, and get a link to down load the file. These steps are often rather similar to other services that are used to save YouTube and other flash videos on the web.
1. Go to the YouTube video page and copy the URL of the video you may like to save. As an example, here is a URL of a video on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ymHMgFAps
2. Once you have duplicated this address, download keepvid and paste that URL in to the URL text field. Next, you need to click the Submit or Download button.
3. If it really is done appropriately, the page should open a new window or show a link to each of the video formats that you can save your self. keepvid will give you the option to save lots of the video as FLV, 3GP, MP4 and WebM format. If you would like to view this video on the pc it is strongly recommended to save the video inMP4 format.
Just how to view a FLV video on your personal computer
After you have downloaded the.flv file on your personal computer, you may need a player that supports.flv files. Below are a few suggestions.
VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/
FLV Player http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/flv-player/
Note: you can also get web video downloader for mac at iFunia Free Video Downloader
Windows Media Player Microsoft Windows users can also play FLV files in Windows Media player using the right codec. Downloading and installing the CCCP codec will install this codec, in addition to many other codecs you are likely to want as time goes by.
You can also convert the YouTube video to a different film format. You can find scores of applications programs and online services that allow you to convert FLV files in to still another format. Here is a short list of some of the free services and products:
Media Convert - An excellent online service that can convert FLV files into many other formats. http://www.media-convert.com/ Vixy - Yet another great online service that enables you to download and save YouTube video files to another format. http://vixy.net/"
