A question I often get asked, is "How do I save Youtube videos to watch on my pc, or to burn to a disk to view later?" The program I usually recommend is YouTube Downloader, It's a free program that lets you download YouTube videos to watch offline. Increasingly, however, YouTube surfers are finding higher-quality MP4 video files instead of (or along with) the somewhat blurry lower-resolution Flash (FLV) videos.
But guess what? -- there is a way to save these better-quality YouTube videos, too.
Here’s how to do it: Copy the lengthy URL from the YouTube site with the MP4 video (such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLALKrrGRBI) and then open up another tab in your web browser. Type in File2HD.com in the address bar. It's not a flashy, pretty site, but its great and gets the job done! You’ll see a box on this site where you’ll paste the lengthy YouTube URL.
Click that you agree to the site’s terms, select "Video" and finally, "Get Files," and you’ll see the MP4 video ready for download.
Finally, right mouse-click on the file name and select where on your hard drive you’d like to save this file.
Voila! it's ready to view on your PC... Another one I get asked, is what's a good program to use to view these files? Well what I use is VLC Media Player.
The awesome thing about this program? It doesn't require any extra video or audio codecs to open a video file, it opens all sorts of media formats, (i've yet to use one that the program couldn't open).
Another program that you can also use, and I've used in the past, its almost as good as VLC (my opinion, some may say this is the better one) is BSPlayer.
Both programs are great when it comes to opening video files that other programs (and to be nice, I won't name any of the other programs) aren't able to, due to not having the proper codecs installed or for whatever other reason.
Hope that helps out a lot of you, or at least some of you... Bookmark this page if want to/have to..
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