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YouTube and similar video sharing web sites have indulged us with tons of free videos from all over the internet. Although YouTube doesn’t give us the clue to download the videos, I’m sure most of you have already known that it’s pretty easy to download YouTube video right to your hard drive. There are a number of tools that will help us saving Youtube videos for playback on your desktop, iphone, PSP, or your DVD player.
Using Firefox Add-ons
If you’re Firefox user, which I think this is the simplest way. All you need to do is installing the Download Helper add-on. Not just videos from YouTube, the Download helper will grab just about any media files from any source and save it to your machine. Video Downloader is another firefox add-on that can grab video form YouTube, although some users reported that the latest YouTube site update seems to be interfering with the video download.
Using Video Downloader Applications
Not a Firefox user? It’s Ok. Where there is demand there will be supply… right? You can try out My Video Downloader, With this handy program you can download video from popular video sharing sites such as YouTube, MySpace, DailyMotion, iFilm, and Metacafe. The videos downloaded from these sites are flash video files or FLV files. If you don’t want to watch your video in a FLV player on your computer you will want to convert the file to a different format. You will be able to encode the files to iPhone, iPod, PSP, Zune, DVD, VCD, SVCD, AVI – XviD, MP3, 3gp, Flash (swf) and Quicktime. If you satisfied with the trial version, you can buy it for $24.99. [click to continue…]
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