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YouTube is a phenomenon. It has turned all those couch potatoes into mouse potatoes.

Couch potatoes are those who sit watching TV all day, while mouse potatoes are people who sit at their computer all day. (all day is an exaggeration, but you get the point)

All those TV addicts who finished channel surfing and watching everything on all the hundreds and thousands of TV channels, now have more - much more than they can ever imagine.

Behold the power of the internet and lots of camera wielding amateurs !

But how do you download these files for later viewing ? You can’t stay connected to the net forever. Not everyone has a high bandwidth connection. The video pauses every now and then when it streams and you wait till it is fully streamed, you can see it till you go to another page or close that window. Annoying huh ?

How can I download a Youtube flash video ?

UTube videos cannot be downloaded like other .swf files. They will have to be converted to flv flash video files.

3 fundas to download YouTube videos

1) Firefox extension

Wonderful and excellent solution especially if you are using the same computer !

Install Firefox from Mozilla.


It is definitely the best browser I’ve used. And you can add so many extensions to it to make it do whatever you wan. Inbuilt FTp, weather, news, live RSS, YouTube Downloader, Flash .swf downloader. MP3 ripper, much more.
If you want much much more, get the Google Pack.

Then , install the firefox add on to download YouTube videos

You are done ! Restart Firefox and go to Youtube and download by clicking the button on the bottom.
2) Use a website

Quick and useful if you are using a public computer.

Download and convert to AVI, MOV,MP$,3GP (vixy.net)

Qooqle downloader site (http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/)

Others

http://www.fundazone.com/videos

http://keepvid.com/

http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/

http://www.youtubex.com/

http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/

http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

3) Install a software

This is if you want to download and install and then use a software - I don’t think this is necessary. But maybe they give some extra functions - tell me if you find any use .

How to play the FLV file ?

Using FLV players like VLC (VideoLAN )

Or FLV player or the small Wimpy’s FLV player

How to convert the FLV to MP4, 3GP, MOV, MPEG, MPG ?

Online: Download and convert to AVI, MOV,MP$,3GP (vixy.net)

Software: SUPER free Video convertor

All the best . If you find better ways, do comment.