How to download and save youtube FLV files to your computer.

[EverythingGolf]

Download this 1st http://www.pazera-software.com/products/flv-to-avi-converter/

Follow these steps to get the video file.

Go to youtube and watch the video you want to save, you have to let it download to your temp internet folder.

Then do these steps to get the file.

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Step 4.

This is a window with all of your temp internet files. search for the file that says videoplayback? etc.

then copy and paste it to your desk top. Open the flv to avi software and open the file and convert it. It will now be save to your computer.

Here is a pic of the converter software.

Click the AVI button and select the WMV version 2 (WMP8).

Click the add button to add the file to convert then click the convert button.

Thats how you do it.

[iacas]

And on the Mac, it's much easier.

Download this extension (which does other things that are really nice too, and in fact, are the bulk of the true usefulness): http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/

Then:

Quote "YouTube5 Documentation":

To download a video to your computer, right click on any of the format names and click “Download linked file”.

I almost forgot option 2: use Analyzr, put the URL in, and click the "Download" button. Coming in a few weeks, of course! :-)

[shortstop20]

If you use FireFox, download the Video Download Helper add-on.

[1puttit]

Or you can just use Youtube Downloader http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

After you download the video it has an option to convert it to multiple video files.

[Zeph]

Or you can use savevid. http://www.savevid.com/