Monday, January 17, 2011

How to Download Youtube videos



AS we all know that none of the video sharing sites provide a link
to download their videos.
So we will have to do some tweaking and play around to download the videos.
Here are some ways to download any video from the internet ,
they are based on the common hack
(Right-click -> “Save Target As” OR copy the link into your download manager,
but change the file extension to .flv)

Method 1:

For Firefox Users – Install the VideoDownloader Extension from
Mozilla Add-ons website – It downloads all embedded objects on a webpage
including the video clips. This is very easy for beginners.

Method 2: One of the easiest ways is to copy
your video URL and paste it on KeepVid Lite.
When you click submit,
you will be provided with a link to save the video as an FLV file.
Using these tricks you can easily download videos from Youtube or Google
Videos or Metacafe.
Now some more questions that arise are:
How do I play FLV files on my computer? -
They dont open with windows media player or winamp or itunes or real player ?
You can download free FLV players to watch FLV files locally.
A good FLV player has a simple and easy-to-remember name - FLV Player.
Another nice alternative is the Riva FLV player.
Try them out.
How do I split a large FLV file into smaller playable video clips?
This is the most common question among video enthusiasts -
they want to split a large FLV video file into smaller chunks for editing or
resharing only the interesting tidbits on the internet.
To break an FLV file, get the free FLV Parser – a tiny command-line tool
to split FLVs into pieces. Its intended use is to convert a large FLV into a
series of shorter FLVs based on a series of millisecond-based timecodes.
Using the -s switch will split the audio and video of the outputted files;
the audio track will be extracted as a series of MP3 files, and the short
FLVs produced will have no audio track at all.
How to convert FLV videos to Windows AVI or 
Quicktime MOV or 3GP formats ?
The free Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer software from
Super can convert FLV files to practically any other video format
including MP4, MOV H.264, AVI, ASF or Flash SWF animations.
How do I convert my AVI, MPEG, MOV, 3GP 
movie clips back to FLV format ?
Say you complete editing your movie in Windows Movie Maker or
Avid and now left with an MOV file that you want to convert to FLV.
Just get the free Riva FLV encoder and relax.
The Riva encoder even lets you select parts of the video that you want
to convert to FLV and crop the rest.
I have three small video clips that I download from Google Videos
and now want to join them into one single video
How do I merge FLV files ?
There is no free software that lets you join FLV files other than the
expensive Macromedia Flash Professional.
However, here’s a simple trick to join several flv video files -
convert individual flv files to avi using Super [as mentioned above],
then join the multiple Avi files into a single avi file using free VirtualDub 
and finally convert this avi back to FLV using Riva FLV encoder.
Its done.
How do I watch Youtube Video on my iPod, PSP or Television ?
Again we’ll make use of the Super Video Encoder mentioned above.
Just convert the FLV file into a corresponding format
(like Apple iPod or Sony PSP or MPG)
and transfer it to your gadget.

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