How to get videos from youtube for free?

How to Get Videos from Video Sites for Free?

Many friends always ask me how to enjoy and download videos from YouTube, Myspace, Google Video, etc. on PSP. Videos come from those website are streaming videos. So you need some software to capture steaming videos. Here is a simple guide about it.

Note: If you are using Mac OS, see How to download YouTube videos and limewire music, videos, etc. on Mac? If you want to get videos off YouTube for free, you can use the free YouTube Downloader for Mac to do so, and for more websites, you can update the downloader to iTube Studio for Mac, the high version assisting you to download any video on popular video-sharing sites including Google, Face book, YouTube, MySpace etc.

How to capture/download Videos from web?

1 Install Firefox.

Firefox (latest version 3.0) is a free and powerful web browser. Download and install it. Here is the free download link: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

2Install the Fast Video Download.

This is a plug-in for firefox. It enables you get video from YouTube or other websites. Here is the free download link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590

3Download video.

After installing Fast Video Download, restart firefox. In the bottom right, you'll see the icon. Go to the page of the video you want to download, click that icon.

Record and download video from youtube free

Most videos will probably be in .flv format. If you want to put YouTube FLV videos to iPod nano ,iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, Xbox 360, PS3 and more, you need a good video converter to convert the YouTube video. Here is a good video converter for Mac to help you do a decent job.

Free Web services to get videos off YouTube or more video-sharing sites

	This site allows to download web videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc. by simply copying and pasting the URL. You would be provided a link whereby you can download the video file to your computer, iPad, iPod, iPhone, or any other media player. You'll need to have an FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use!

	Zamzar is a free online file conversion web application that can both converts videos off the Internet to MP4, AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MOV, etc., and converts between image, audio, and document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your favorite format.

	Vixy.net is a site that can download web videos and convert them to AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don't have to worry about downloading a FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format. (Same as Zamzar)

	KeepVid has a Top Videos section, so it's possible to quickly download the most watched videos around the web.

	Similar to ZamZar and vixy.net, Media Converter differs from only because that it requires an account and only available for YouTube videos to download and convert. You can also download their video download program, but it only supports 5 sites.

	Hey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats including HD very quickly. The graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an FTP server or to online storage.

	YouTubeX, as the name suggests, allows you to download videos from YouTube. Obviously, it only supports YouTube, but it has a couple of other features: play video on the site, and find some popular videos.

	VideoRonk searches across various video-sharing sites such as YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion and MetaCafe to find the most popular videos on each of them. You can not only watch them on VideoRonk, but also download them to your computer in FLV.

	VidDownloader supports about 10 popular sites and download video files in DivX AVI. It's very easy to use and can also extract only the audio from a video by choosing "Just Audio" on the download page.

	According to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc. Do rename the video files you downloaded from YouTube with the .FLV extension.

	This site is a foreign site, but is easy to use and supports most of the major sites. Free FLV player is provided on the site could be downloaded to play videos from YouTube.

	DownThisVideo has a nice tag cloud at the top that you can click on to find videos quickly. From what I could tell, this site is mostly used by Japanese because the popular videos are mostly Anime, etc. However, you can still use it to download any YouTube video.