How to download Youtube video

I believe some of you have seen this kind of movie



Above movie is a flash video that you can find easily in youtube.com, dailymotion.com, megavideo.com, myspace.com, ouou.com and many others. Those movies are generally in flv file (*.flv). So here are tips to help you download Flash files from the internet to your hard drive. You can save all flash animations from web pages, flash movie trailers, or what ever flash files you find in the web.

1. Web based
This way you use the help of certain website to download the video, just simply provide the URL of a Youtube video and you can download the video instantly. You can choose the high or low quality versions of the video, and convert the video to the format of your choice before the download begins. (the latter if only available)
For example , www.keepvid.com,www.savevideodownload.com, etc

2. Software based
You need software to download the movie, for example youtube downloader

3. Plug-in based
you usually have to install a browser add-on or use a utility that will strip out the flash video file, but leave you to the task of converting the video to a usable format.

I am just going to discuss the first method, which is web based :

1. Copy Youtube URL that you are going to download (you can do the same with different websites from megavideo.com, dailymotion.com, myspace.com, etc)



2. Paste the URL in the field as shown below , then click download



3. You will be given two options, low quality or high quality movie, choose one of them and then save as
Apparently in below case only one option is given.



4. Enjoy.(don't forget that you must have the player to run the movie)