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How To Download Videos From Online Video Sharing Sites

by Admin on March 19, 2010


Youtube is one of the top popular websites online (it ranks 2-5 in different rankings). It’s a video sharing site where people are free to express their thoughts and emotions. It’s the place where you can find latest music and music videos of your favorite bands, the latest movie trailers, funny commercials and useful information, and much more. And it seems that a lot of people want to be able to download these videos to their computer. They want to play their favorite videos without being connected to the Internet or use the videos and sounds for school presentations. But Youtube’s policy forbids that.

Fortunately, there are ways around that which allow you to download any video you want, and not only from Youtube, but also from other video sharing sites. The only problem is that when you download a video from Youtube, the file format is .flv, which can’t be played by all media players without installing special codecs. So you have to find a video convertor software and convert the video to another format like .wmv, .mpg, .avi or other video format that will work with your player. That’s not very easy to do, especially for newbies.

This is where Youtube Downloader comes into play. It’s a program that automatically downloads any Youtube video and converts it to a universally playable format. From the name of this program, you can see it was made to be simple.

Youtube Downloader

Youtube Downloader

And it is! It is very good. First (and best) of all – it’s completely free. Second – it’s easy to use and simple to understand. And lastly, it’s got everything you need to download any Youtube video you want.The quality depends on what type of video you want to download, HD or SD. This has been recently replaced with the width of the video in the Youtube player and it’s shown as 360, 480 and 720, the latter being the best quality. 360 isn’t that bad either, it’s enough for most people (and definitely enough for phones) and the size is small, so it saves precious bandwidth.

When you open Youtube Downloader it asks you for the url of the Youtube video, which is easy to get – just copy it from your browser’s address bar. Then click Download and it’s going to start downloading. The speed of download depends on your Internet connection speed. After it has finished downloading, it will ask you whether you want to convert the video to another file format, which is .avi by default. You should select Yes and wait. After it’s done, you can watch, copy, edit and share the video as much as you want. As I said, it’s very easy. It’s a very simple tool which I recommend to everyone that wants their favorite Youtube videos on their computer.

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{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

Kiran March 19, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Thanks Admin will try it out :)

nadystu March 24, 2010 at 10:50 pm

I didn’t know that there is a easy way to download from youtube.com videos. Thanks for sharing this information with us. I will keep on eye every day on this blog. Great work!

Karen Chayne March 25, 2010 at 8:33 am

I always use youtube downloader in converting my favorite videos from youtube to my mp5, mobile phone and dvd player using 3gp, avi and wmv format.

Aptiff Makao March 25, 2010 at 10:56 am

This program is very nice and I use it because there are many files that can be downloaded from Youtube.com

PRONOY ROY March 25, 2010 at 11:45 am

Thank You Shaswat…I was in trouble downloading videos from YouTube since last few days….this article really helped me out…. :)

samanth March 31, 2010 at 12:39 am

I suggest to go through the following article in SOD for more information on the subject
http://www.saveondish.com/forum/download-videos-from-youtube-by-typing-ok-t-18243.html

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