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How to download youtube videos

1- Copy URL of the youtube page containing the video you want to download.
2- Goto www.youtubex.com and paste the URL in the provided space, and click the “Get Video” button.
3- You’ll see a small snippet of the youtube page in a frame below, along with a download button.
4- Hit the download button. A window opens asking you to open the file or save it on your computer. Choose the latter.
5- The file will take sometime to download, based on its size and your internet connection speed.
6- On completion of download, you’ll have a file with a .flv extension, which you can watch with flv player (http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated).
7- To watch it on windows media player or other players, you’ll need to convert it using an flv converter, which you can download here-
http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3

How to watch YouTube videos on your iPod

With a few minutes of work, it’s easy to watch YouTube videos on your iPod. Here’s how.

Steps

Firefox (Windows only)

  1. Add the Greasemonkey extension to your Firefox browser.
  2. Go to www.userscripts.org and install the Download YouTube Video script.
  3. The next time you watch YouTube, you’ll see a Download Video option beneath the screen. Click it to save the file to your desktop as QaQw9V4Upj4.flv or whatever.
  4. Install and launch the free Super video converter (www.erightsoft.com). Download is located here.
  5. Select Apple – iPod from the Output Container option, and then the output video codec H.264/AVC. Set size to 320 x 240. If you get an error message when converting, unclick the Use DirectShow button. Otherwise, drag the converted file into iTunes and it’s ready for viewing.