Be a successful downloader of videos from YouTube
There are some people who are successful in whatever they do and some who are always unsuccessful. There are a rare breed of people who fit yet another category and they are those who never give up till they do not succeed. These are the people who have scripted countless success stories. One of them is jack who is an avid lover of musical videos and has a collection that many people craze for. It is not that someone has gifted the same to him. He has spent his time over the years to purchase the same.
YouTube and they make a sweet sight:
Some of the videos had been gifted to him by his friends, but ask him and he will be candid enough to admit that most of the videos in his collection have been downloaded from YouTube. This sounds impossible to me. Yes, I do belong to that tribe who are always successful, but today I am determined that I shall not give up till I find a way to download movies off YouTube.
There have been countless occasions when I have found favorite videos of mine that have appeared in YouTube and even though I have never been successful in downloading the same, I have saved the URL’s of all of them in my bookmark so that I can see them whenever I like. If you had noticed by bookmark you might have seen folders carefully arranged under YouTube and they make a sweet sight. There are folders named sport, action, personal, music, cartoons and some more.
YouTube converts uploaded files to flash format
All of them contain the URL’s that are pointing towards the genre of video that is there on YouTube. As I see my friend explain how one can download movies from YouTube, I am astonished. It is so simple that I wonder why did I not think of it before and why did I not check out the forums. The site is called the YouTube Downloader and is very easy to use. The main reason is that I use the default browser that ships with windows and this browser does not support the trick my friend demonstrated. For this I need to download and install the firefox browser.
My friend went on to explain that all the videos that are uploaded to YouTube are converted to flash format by their software and then the same is embedded within the web page making it difficult to retrieve it by right clicking it and selecting the `save file as’ option. I have followed my friend’s instructions and have installed firefox. My next step involves in launching firefox and install the greasemonkey add on. Once this is done I shall have to download and install the Greasemonkey script.
This is all that is required. To download a video that I like from the YouTube server, I’ll just load the video as I normally do and click on the small button marked `Download Video’. Since I have followed the instructions carefully, the video will be downloaded to my hard drive and then I can use any video converter to convert the video to a format of my choice.
Posted under Entertainment, Health, videos
This post was written by Rajesh on September 1, 2008
