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Example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bqZauhidT1w

Example: http://rudy.gays.top.10.career.dunks.vaizdelis.lt/

Example: http://www.videogaga.lt/video?id=ouyxeplbtrcuxgtnxoc

Example: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1573541100

Example: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1050549/funny_video_854_www_imblukor_com/

Example: http://rutube.ru/tracks/787911.html?v=447079c4b15a552b844713ae942cb580

Example: http://www.blip.tv/file/149100/

How to download a video from YouTube (and other supported video sites)

1) Enter the YouTube Video URL (if the video is embedded in another site and you don't know the URL, click "YouTube" on the lower right corner of the video window)
2) Click "Download"
3) You should see a message "Please wait" while the download link is being generated
4) If the download link was generated successfully, click on it to download your video. Otherwise you'll see an error message "Failed to obtain the download link". Possible reasons: this video cannot be downloaded due to restrictions on Youtube/other video portals; temporal problems like server overload etc.; this video is available in other formats. In this case please wait a few seconds and try again or select another file type.


FLV player

All videos in Youtube, Myspace and similar video portals are in FLV (Flash Video) format. You can't play these videos in Windows Media Player or other popular players. You need to have a special FLV player. It can be downloaded for free (as freeware) from here. There you will also find a freeware application to convert FLV files to popular video formats (mpeg, avi, mov...).


Another (manual) method

Go to YouTube.com and find a clip you like. Every video page on YouTube has a little EMBED box that allows you copy code and post YouTube video clips on your website. We are going to take advantage of this.

• Copy the code and paste it into a text edit program like Notepad . The code will look something like this:
  
  <object width="425" height="350">
  <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oNQXLNMh0c"></param> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oNQXLNMh0c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
  
  
• You are looking for the URL of the video file. In the example above that would be: http://www.youtube.com/v/-oNQXLNMh0c. Copy this URL and paste it into a new web browser window and press the Enter key on your keyboard.
  
  
• The YouTube clip should load your web browser as a full screen clip. Press "Play" and wait for the video to load.
  
  
• Now take a closer look at the URL. It's different than what you pasted in there. It's a lot longer right? It should look something like this:http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=
  -oNQXLNMh0c&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static5.sjl.youtube.com/vi/-oNQXLNMh0c/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJaNd08X90swYCiZMZTzBdb
  
  
• The next step is to change the piece of code that says "p.swf" to "get_video". So the example above should look like this after the change: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=-oNQXLNMh0c&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static5.sjl.youtube.com/vi/-oNQXLNMh0c/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJaNd08X90swYCiZMZTzBdb
  
  
• Press Enter and your video will start to download.
  The tool installed on this page makes all these manipulations automatically :)