Tips how to save youtube.com video into your harddisk.
By istanto
@istanto (8548)
Indonesia
February 18, 2007 9:21pm CST
Well, I think every one know about the most popular share video website named youtube.I like that website, sometime I found rare video on there, I found samurai X ova and Final fantasy full movies on there. to bad I can't save that video to my hard disk... so I was googling today and founded the way!!we can save that video into our own hard disk without needed loading it again. it's really suck because I have poor internet connection in here, I hate to waiting that video buffering.
here is the trick, you must have firefox browser (because I try in here with firefox 2) once you found video you want to download just open that page like normally then click on tools - page info - go to media tab. you will see on there link about images, video, etc based on that page.
now go to the trick, you need to found the real video files. in this case this is flash movie format so you have to find flash/shockwave embedded on that page. here is the sample (go look into images if you not understand it)
http://www.youtube.com/player2.swf?video_id=FhGRFC-OQ8U&l=1450&t=OEgsToPDskLD9DNndQuBhfODJeoGnt1Q
video_id=FhGRFC-OQ8U&l=1450&t=OEgsToPDskLD9DNndQuBhfODJeoGnt1Q
is the real file we needed, now change url to get request..
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=FhGRFC-OQ8U&l=1450&t=OEgsToPDskLD9DNndQuBhfODJeoGnt1Q
Tadaaaaa.... add this url on your download manager or whatever you used usually. after that open file you completed download with flash video player.
here is the link for FLV player
http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html
If you want you can also convert that flash movie to any video format example mpeg, avi or 3gp or any popular video format using video converter. you can choose to convert it or leave it as original.
here is the link for video converter
http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/index.htm
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24 responses
@maribel1218 (3085)
• Philippines
24 Feb 07
This is one tip I really longed to learn because I have lots of you tube videos that I want to save in my hard drive.
I really try this one on my spare time.
thanks a lot for your sincere intention to teach each myLot member.
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@trouble4u2avoid (2915)
• United States
22 Feb 07
Thanks for the information. I was wondering how to save a video to my computer. Now the trick is for me to actually do it with messing it up...LOL
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@Bbilal (1998)
•
19 Feb 07
What a lovely trick! Gosh! Perfectly lovely trick. It will as surely help me to save video on you tube as I'm don't watch regular video's there. I do watch ofently video's on you tube as it take time to buffer and all and I hate that. This is the only reason why I don't watch much video's on you tube still the web portal is counted amongst one of the best web portal through out the world. Now it is easy to use from onwards as you said that we can save video from you tube. Thanks for such a lovely discussion through out myLot.
@ganesh1984k (467)
• India
20 Feb 07
Ya thank u very very very much for this information . i was just searching for the downloading of the video from youtube. i have heard of some plugin in firefox which can be used to download these movies from the site. do u know the name of the plugin???? if u do know please let me also know it. thanks..... Happy posting...
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@scudibu (2)
• Philippines
20 Feb 07
you can also try using mozilla firefox. it has an add-on that allows you to download videos from supported sites and youtube is one of them.
you can download mozilla firefox here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
and you can download the video downloader add-on here:
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
19 Feb 07
thank you for infrmation it is too complicated for me that is for a computer wiz. or someone that really knows about computers. I have heard of you tube how you can make money downing pictures to U Tube. that will be good for you.
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
2 Mar 07
Here another website you can share with your friends, this video you can vote to say if you like it or not. and look and videos, this website is. www.stumbleupon.com tell me if you like it. it is a fun site.
@ColdFirex5 (47)
• Bahrain
29 Apr 07
great thnx, but u could use keepvid.com , you might need to convert the file format but its still worth it.
@jhartana (1084)
• Australia
3 Mar 07
Thanks for the tips. I found it useful. Actually I got the Mozilla Firefox extension that allows me to save youtube videos into hard disk. Youtube rocks!
@Corvin (417)
• Philippines
20 Feb 07
you really give them some tips on how to townload video from youtube.com but there are some easy way and to do it. I can't explain it here because maybe you may not understand some codes that i will say. Just send me a message if some are interested to know the other way to download a video from youtube.com.
@homeofkbj (49)
• Malaysia
3 Mar 07
Hey men..Really thank for your tips men...
Great...Thank God Goodness...
You great men... You reply 7716 message....
how can you do that so... can u show me yours skill
you should get many payment for that already...
Mind to add me as friend at msn there with homeofkbj@yahoo.co.uk ????