YouTube is one of the world’s most useful, extensive and easy-to-use websites for uploading, watching and sharing your videos on the internet. The website was launched in year 2005, and since then its viewership has been increasing by several hundred million per day. Viewers can watch these videos only when they are online. But what if you want to watch a particular video even when you are not logged on a computer?
There are many services and software available on the internet, which you can use to download videos from YouTube. Many of the software provide a free and an uncomplicated trouble-free way to download YouTube videos. However, you need to be careful when choosing the software because some of them maybe costly and not work on certain type of browsers.
How to download YouTube videos through Mozilla Firefox
You need to first download the Mozilla Firefox browser from their website www.mozilla.org/. You will also need to download a download helper from their website https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006. On the Download Helper page click on the green “Add to firefox” button. After a wait of five seconds a popup will appear to let you install it. Restart your computer after install and you will see a new spinning icon, which will help you to download the videos you want.
How to download YouTube videos using Real Player
You can also download videos straight from the website with the help of Real Player. Once you have the Real Player on your computer, every time you watch a video you will notice a small bar on the top right corner saying “Download This Video”. You can use this feature to download any video that you like in your Real Player library and then organize with your other saved videos. However, for some versions that allow files to be burnt on DVDs, you will have to upgrade and pay for downloading.
How to download YouTube videos using Keepvid.com
There are also some other websites that help you to download videos from YouTube, in case you do not have or cannot download the specific software. KeepVid.com is such a website, which can download videos from YouTube and save them in a high quality MP4 format. For this, you just need to open the YouTube video you want to download on your web browser and copy the URL in the address bar. Now go to the website www. Keepvid.com, paste the URL in the blue URL box, and click on the download button. You can now download your video in either a low quality FLV file or an MP4 format.
How to download YouTube videos to your cell phone
You can also download your favorite videos on YouTube directly onto your cell phones and iPods. To download videos on your cell phone you need to create your YouTube Mobile Profile. This you can do by signing up for a YouTube account and then create your profile in the Account Settings section. Now you can load the YouTube website in you phone and download videos using any of the abovementioned methods.
How to download YouTube videos on your iPods
To do this, you first need to download the video on your computer. You can use keepvid.com website for this. These downloaded videos will be saved in the form of .FLV files which you need to convert into iPod MP4 format. You can use the Daniusoft video converter, a software that allows you to convert the downloaded videos into other video formats such as MP4, MPG, AVI and many more. Moreover, it allows you to extract audio from video and then convert it into MP3, WAV, WMA and other audio formats.
YouTube is now also testing an option, which will allow its users to download videos for free or at predetermined prices. This is a great way, especially if you want to be free from worrying about copyright issues. This will also help the owners of the videos get credit for their work and allow viewers to purchase their videos. YouTube is currently in the process of testing this with many universities and will also make the option of downloading directly from the website possible in the near future.
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