First Guide

First of all, I did not figure all of this out myself, but I can't remember where I found it so I don't know who to credit for this method.

Steps
1. Open the link as you would normally do to watch a video on youtube.
2. Wait for the page to load a little while.
3. Click the Stop button. (This is not needed actually, but you do not want to download the video through your browser right)
4. Open the page source. You can find it under the View menu then select Source for Avant Browser. For Firefox, go to the View menu.
5. Search for this player2.swf?video_id (Just click crtl+f and paste that line into the text box and click the search button)
6. Then you will find this

"/player2.swf?video_id=lOP4Lu_q-hk&l=380&t=OEgsToPDskJyemJZl-b5jr4zWS1ZjQ-I&s=3CA5B83238DF21B4:53C662DC848F75CD", "movie_player", "450", "370", 7, "#FFFFFF");

Copy the text from the first = untill the last letter/number before the second " Just like the example below.

lOP4Lu_q-hk&l=380&t=OEgsToPDskJyemJZl-b5jr4zWS1ZjQ-I&s=3CA5B83238DF21B4:53C662DC848F75CD

Then you can paste what you copied in the webrowser url box or into a download manager.

Then add this text to the begining of what you copied.

http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=

So in all this is what the final url will look like

http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=lOP4Lu_q-hk&l=380&t=OEgsToPDskJyemJZl-b5jr4zWS1ZjQ-I&s=3CA5B83238DF21B4:53C662DC848F75CD

7. Then click go on your browser, or confirm the url if you are using a downloading manager and viola, you will download the video into your computer. You can save it rename it and whatever else you want to do with it.

8. To play the file, you will need either VLC player or the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. You can get it here K-Lite



I have recently received a few messages informing me that there are websites, programs and extensions to download videos easily from youtube and other video sites. I really appreciate it that you hav etaken the trouble to inform me. Thanks for the info. Actually I have used program, websites and extension to download from Youtube but sometimes they can't. So I am using this method with works 100% for me. I just thought that I should share it with you all.

Thanks to D@rk for pointing out to me that the page source is actually located under the view menu for Avant Browser and not under the File menu.

This post has been edited by keyz: Jul 10 2006, 09:19 AM

Second Guide

-------------- (Extract from AnimeOtaku)No Credit for me --------------
First select a file you want d/l. Make sure to save the url of the file somewhere (like in Word, or in an email).

Then [right-click and save] the url in whatever program you saved it in. This will prompt you to save a html document.

Rename the .html file extension to .flv.

Download CinemaForge (search it on Google) and voila, you can convert your .flv file to .avi, .mpeg, .wma, etc.


NOTE: once you got a link like:

Quote:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tifxSsjh...0a%20kiss%20ost


then take off the &search=it%20started%20with%20a%20kiss%20ost so it becomes

Quote:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tifxSsjhha8


you need to change the watch?v= or in some cases watch.php?v=to to get_video.php?l=165&video_id=
your final link must look like this:
Quote:
http://youtube.com/get_video.php?l=..._id=tifxSsjhha8

and save the page as .flv (flash file) then convert it using CinemaForge or play it in a flash player

Quote:
You can also use this:

http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php






IF U ARE USING FIREFOX


Download and install the VideoDownloader plugin from

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Very easy to use and install! Instructions on the website!

This post has been edited by keyz: Jul 10 2006, 09:10 AM

Third Guide

Updated - 15th November 2006

It is possible to download a video from YouTube.
Just some easy few steps and you'll be able to watch the YouTube video on your computer offline.

1. Go to http://www.vincentchow.net/tools/youtube-downloader
2. Enter the YouTube video URL that you wanted to download.
3. Click on the "Get Video" button.
4. Wait a moment. When the download window pop up, save the video.
5. Click on the "Download Link" if download did not start.

Just some easy procedure to download any YouTube video.

Have a nice day.

Regards,
-Vincent

This post has been edited by -Teddy-: Nov 15 2006, 02:03 AM

Moderation: All guide merge,edit & cleaned (adding guide number).

This post has been edited by keyz: Jul 10 2006, 09:18 AM