July 21st 2009 11:18 am
How to download YouTube video to your computer
Since broadband internet became a norm, high speed internet is no longer a dream. Having a high speed internet is even cheaper than your monthly phone bill(not in Malaysia of course). And you can literally throw away your 56Kbps modem. More web services are taking advantage of high speed internet. The creator of YouTube is smart enough to think of creating a web service where everyone can share and view their favourite videos. And it came in the right time in 2005 where broadband is started to mushrooming all around the world. There are tonnes of videos available on YouTube. People get addicted to YouTube as their favourite videos can be found there. You don’t have to waste your internet bandwidth by watching the video all over again on YouTube. You can actually download straight to your computer’s hard drive which is more convenient to have a repetitive viewing of the video.
There are 2 ways to download YouTube video to your computer.
- Bitcomet’s Media downloader plugin.
- KeepVid.com
This is my most favourite method of downloading a YouTube video. It’s simple and all you have to do is to install Bitcomet and make sure you got the right browser for that, Firefox in this case.
Select base on the title of the YouTube video
You have to wait the video to load few seconds first. After that, right click and select Download Media Files. If you didn’t let your browser to load the video, you won’t be able to download it.
Bitcomet is not the only download manager able to download YouTube video. There are others out there, but my favourite is still Bitcomet as it’s my torrent downloader as well.
Few minor stuff which irked me about Bitcomet; it’s resource hungry and it can used up to 200MB of RAM anytime, Bitcomet runs on ads which is annoying and it doesn’t run in Firefox 3.5. Well, these can be ignored as Bitcomet downloads files really fast which is a big plus point.
This is an alternative method which I seldom use. Well, this is simply because this method isn’t fast enough and I won’t able to resume downloads for those stopped half way. You can’t look for other mirrors to speed up your download (which Bitcomet can) as well.
Go to http://keepvid.com/, copy and paste the whole URL from the youtube video. Something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zuKl7QiVSw
Click “DOWNLOAD” button after that. The page will refresh and it will generate a link for your video. Click the “Download” link and you’ll be able to download the video just like any other files.
Keep in mind that your default Windows Media Player is dumb enough for not being able to play the YouTube video which is in .flv format or .mp4 for high definition variant. You’ll need video players like Windows Media Classic or the multipurpose GOM player.
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How to download YouTube video to your computer on 21 Jul 2009 at 12:40 pm #
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Mrlowyat45 on 22 Jul 2009 at 1:06 am #
thanx for this tip, i always download youtube video using keepvid, ya agree with u that it was slow. going to try out on the bitcomet. by the way, does it support internet explorer?
admin on 22 Jul 2009 at 1:14 am #
internet explorer is not a browser of my choice. why dont you switch over to firefox? it’s faster and you use much less resources viewing youtube video on firefox.
joanparker99 on 24 Jul 2009 at 12:54 am #
Thanks for posting about this, I would like to read more about this topic.
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