What's the best way to save a youtube vid to your hard drive?

[Lex]

Sorry if this is an unacceptably stupid question!

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Try this site

http://www.youtubecatcher.com/

Just add .flv to the file name when you save it. You'll also need an FLV player to play the videos.

http://www.download.com/3000-2139_4-10769546.html

[Lex]

3. Thanks

I'll check it out. :hi:

[nadine_mn]

2. its complicated but doable

you need to download some free software.... here is a link to all the steps

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11327_7-6555399-1.html

[Lex]

4. thank you much!

I'm off to go read . . .

[Poiuyt]

5. Here's another site:

http://vixy.net/

About this service:
This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.

When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

FLV to MPEG4 Conveter engine is now OpenSource. You can download the source code via subversion: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=183657

For Windows users: Please install DivX to play DivX AVI.

[Lex]

6. thanks

I'm going to have to get myself up to speed on all this.

[SecularMotion]

7. Have you heard of Miro?

http://www.getmiro.com/

You can download and save vids from Youtube, Google Video, and other sites. It will also play many video formats.