Download and watch YouTube videos

from http://www.socialmedia.biz/2007/11/download-and-wa.html

Once of the things I've immensely disliked about YouTube since its launch is that the site offers you no way to download a video. (All of the 100,000-plus videos on Ourmedia can be downloaded.)
 

I've previously written about MobileWhack (download YouTube videos to your iPod) and about Spain's vDownloader.

Now comes this great list, from the book Googlepedia by Michael Miller, that lets you download and watch YouTube videos on your own schedule:

dlThis Video Grabber
FeelingTea
GooTube FLV Retriever
KeepVid
KissYouTube
Ripzor YouTube
SaveTube
SaveYouTube
TechCrunch YouTube Video Download Tool
VideoDL
VideoDownloader
YouTube Downloader
YouTubeX
YouTubia

To play the downloaded file, you need a video player program that can play back .FLV format files, like:

Flash Guru Flash Video player
Flash Video Player
RealPlayer

If you need to convert your downloaded .FLV videos to another format, I wrote earlier about FLVR 1.0, and I also use VisualHub. Plus, there are a host of Web-based transcoding services that will do this for free (with varying levels of quality), like Ares Tube, Mux, Vixy and Zamzar.

November 11, 2007 in Video | Permalink | Comments (1) | del.icio.us

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I've been using TubeSock, http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock, which converts YouTube videos to video for iPod, iPhone, and other formats; much happiness watching on iPod.