What is the best easy free way of copying a video off YouTube into a file on my PC?

Question

If I can do this, then I should be able to watch it again & again without having to be on the internet! Thanks

Answer 1

www.keepvid.com. comes with its own player. I use. Its awesome!

Answer 2

Yes I do... http://wish.kuso.cc/youtube/ Go to this Website copy the code from youtube.Hit save target to...Then you will get a file that say get_video now name that file what you want and add .flv at the end of it Then download and FLV TO AVI Converter (you can find em on torrent websites)Convert the file. Then download AVI to IPOD Converter (i use Winxmedia) . Now convert the Avi File To an Ipod File (mp4).... Thats it It should go on there IM sorry If you have problems understanding it but It is alot to go through Just to get That Youtube Video On there But Good Luck I ONe More thing here is a free flv player you can use to watch Your FLV files with in case you wanna check before you turn them to avi file http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimp...

You can get all your converters off torrent sites but dont tell anyone I told ya that*wink*

Answer 3

Try the VideoDownloader add-on for Mozilla Firefox 2

Answer 4

firefox + VLC + Greasemonkey + youtube to me script

firefox current version
http://ffbrowser.blogspot.com/2006/12/firefox-features.html
videolan VLC media player
http://bestofrest.blogspot.com/2006/12/videolan-vlc-media-player.html
Greasemonkey extension to firefox
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
youtube to me script
http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/files/youtube_to_me.user.js

This will create a red bar in the firefox browser with save as option when you access a video in youtube that will let you download the video

Answer 5

you should get a software which is able to capture flash files.