Save YouTube Videos

METHOD 1-VIDEO DOWNLOADER_____________ 

:: Links ::                                                                                   ● Firefox                                                                                     ● VideoDownloader (Extension for Firefox)                                      ● MediaCoder                                                                               ● FLV Player (eliminates need to convert) Instructions                                                                             

●Download and install all of the free tools listed above.                  ●Go to a site (such as Youtube, MySpace…).                                 ●Search and find a video you would like to keep.                             ●Follow the instructions below.

● Click the VideoDownloader Button in the lower

right-hand corner of your Firefox Browser window.

 

● A window will pop-up. Click the button that says

‘Download Link.’

 

● Click ‘Save to Disk’ and then click ‘OK‘ in the ‘Downloads‘ window.

● NOTE: If the file you download does not have

the extension .flv, then rename the file (F2) and

end the name with .flv.

 

● You can stop here if you have a .flv compatible player. If you

want to play the file in a media player or play in your DVD player,

you will need to convert it.

● Start up MediaCoder.

● Drag and Drop the .flv file(s) into the large white

area, or click ‘file’, then ‘add file’.

 

● Click the ‘Video‘ tab in the lower left-hand section                        on the window and select the codec you wish the                        converted file to be formatted as in the ‘Format‘                         drop-down menu.

● Click the large ‘Start‘ button (third from the right

at the top of the window) to begin transcoding the video(s).

 

                                                               ● Once a window pops up saying that the                          transcoding has completed, then you are done!

●  Now that you have the videos in .AVI format,

you can use Nero, or some other DVD video burning

program to burn these videos onto a DVD so you can

watch them on any standard DVD player!

● FLV Player (eliminates need to convert)

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METHOD 2 – LEECHVIDEO_____________________

Easily save and convert videos that play in Internet                   Explorer or Firefox.  

:: Links ::                                                                                  ● Leechvideo (for IE and Firefox)                                                   ● FLV Player (eliminates need to convert) Instructions                       ● IE: Just hover your mouse over the currently playing            video and click on the LeechVideo icon on the video to                open the ‘save as’ dialog .● FIREFOX: click blue “v” in                  lower right hand corner.

● You can choose to save the video in iPod format (.mov),             PSP format (.mp4) or ‘none’ format and the software will                do the rest.

● Click ‘browser’ to search for a ‘save directory’ where                    you want the converted file to be saved.                                         ● To make it easier to find the file, you can rename the file.              ● Click ‘download!’ to automatically download the file                    and convert it.                                                                             ● A pop-up will appear informing you the file has been converted. Click ‘ok’ and click ‘close’.