Saving YouTube videos

George Kovolenko · Post by **George Kovolenko** » 4 Feb 2008 4:09 am

Is ther a way to downlaod and save videos from YouTube? I'd like to add some of the clips to my personal collection.

Thanks,

George

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Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 4 Feb 2008 5:12 am

Get the free Mozilla Firefox add-on that saves any streaming video with a few simple clicks. If you're using WIndows Explorer instead of Firefox, don't sweat changing over. Firefox downloads and runs much like Explorer and it even spell checks for forum posts as you type them!

Video DownloadHelper 2.6.1

Once you have these .flv Flash Video files on your drive, you will want to download a player for them. There are lots of choices there!

Greg

Donny Dennis · Post by **Donny Dennis** » 4 Feb 2008 7:38 am

George,

I use two programs -- 1) Quivic to download/convert to a .wmv format, and 2) DVD Flick to "burn" them to a DVD.

Donny

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 4 Feb 2008 7:52 am

Hi all..
You might also check out this one...I found this the easiest and most reliable to use.
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=126523

Alan Miller · Post by **Alan Miller** » 5 Feb 2008 7:25 pm

If you have an Apple Mac , you download a programme called Tubesock.
Open the programme drag the URL into the download box , click save and thats it.
The programme automatically converts it and the mac saves the video to a movies folder.
You can then burn it to DVD.

Johnny Baldwin · Post by **Johnny Baldwin** » 6 Feb 2008 9:39 am

George:

Easy Video Downloader:
http://www.videodownloader.fdrlab.com/

It downloads youtube file in flv format and then converts to AVI file that you can play in Windows Media Player.

Works great for me.

George Kovolenko · Post by **George Kovolenko** » 7 Feb 2008 4:03 am

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I downloaded the Easy Video Downloader from fdrlab last night and it works great. It even solved another problem I was having, YouTube vids hanging and buffering. Thanks again for your responses and your help.

George

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 7 Feb 2008 9:03 am

Ok here is a gadget thats far easier then all the suggested.

http://vixy.net

It's a converter.BTW FYI...there are ton's of free converters that can do this.Just Google some of them.

Ron

Pete Young · Post by **Pete Young** » 8 Feb 2008 6:15 am

Get real player 11 beta You just have to put your curser on the video and say download Its the fastast of them all

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 8 Feb 2008 5:45 pm

Forget the free stuff. Pay $15 and get the one that works best..
http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/

Alan Miller · Post by **Alan Miller** » 10 Feb 2008 12:24 am

Basil , you pointed me in the tubesock direction for the Mac , Does it also work for the PC ?
If it does , get it folks, it is so simple ,open the programme and its three clicks .

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 10 Feb 2008 1:25 am

Alan :- Forth paragraph ..

Supports Macs and Windows!

Don't be a victim of the platform wars! TubeSock runs natively on both Mac OS X and Windows XP.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 10 Feb 2008 2:49 am

I didn't see anything about tubesock converting to a format that is readable for my dvd player that's hooked up to the TV.
My Easy Video and DVD Flick programs do that...for free.

Greg Wisecup · Post by **Greg Wisecup** » 12 Feb 2008 9:02 am

Realplayer 11. Like he said it's in there. Just get the cursor close and click! Done.