Download youtube to your computer

Dowload YouTube file to your computer

Below is a short list of some of the more popular free websites.

http://www.savevid.com/
http://keepvid.com/

Below is a brief description of how to save a video using Savevid. These steps are often very similar with other services used to save YouTube and other flash videos online.

1. Go to the YouTube video page and copy the URL of the video you wish to save. For example, below is a URL to a video on YouTube.
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ymHMgFAps
    
2. Once this address has been copied, visit SaveVid and paste that URL into the URL text field, then click the Submit or Download button.
3. If done properly, the page should open a new window or display a link to each of the video formats that can be saved. Savevid will give you the option to save the video as FLV, 3GP, MP4 and WebM format. If you're wanting to watch this video on the computer we recommend saving the video as MP4 format.

Watching a FLV video on your computer

Once the .flv file has been downloaded to your computer, you'll need a player that supports .flv files. Below are a few suggestions.

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/

FLV Player
http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/flv-player/

Windows Media Player
Microsoft Windows users also have the ability of playing FLV files in Windows Media player with the right codec. Downloading and installing the CCCP codec will install this codec, as well as many other codecs you'll likely need in the future.