How to Download YouTube Videos

How to Download YouTube Videos

There is hardly any person who surfs the net and who loves videos and yet does not know about YouTube. This is one of the most popular video sharing sites on the web. Calling it one of the most popular would be a misnomer and maybe an insult to this website. In fact, it is so popular that there are no challengers who come even within handshaking distance of it. Millions of people visit this site to upload their videos or to watch videos uploaded by their fiends and relatives.

YouTube or Email attachment?

Suppose there was a birthday party at your home and you wanted to share the same with your friends all over the world. This question was asked to one of the rare few that had no idea about YouTube. This gentleman in question used to compress the video files and then used to send them as an email attachment if the size was small. By small he meant videos that were approximately 100mb in size.

Though this gentleman had a high-speed broadband connection and it did not take him more than 15 minutes to upload the videos he wanted to share with his friends, what about those to whom he had sent those videos? There are many ISP’s that just do not permit attachments beyond a certain size and those who were using such ISP’s would have the mail along with the attachment knocked of the server itself. Then there was his friend in a remote country who was on a 56kbps dial up connection.

Easy to use software

It would take that poor chap approximately 400 minutes to download that video. This gentleman has finally found out about YouTube and is now a regular up loader to the same. A few days one of his video files got corrupted but he was not dismayed. He knew that there was a copy of the same on YouTube that he could download and make good his loss. He did not know beforehand but he was in for the shock of his life. Try as he might he was not able to download the video in question from YouTube.

He did not know that the videos uploaded to YouTube are converted to the flash format on the fly and are then displayed on their website. This makes it impossible to download them and save them to a local drive. Impossible to those who do not know! There is one site that makes it possible to download YouTube videos, which is straightforward to use.

When one sees a video file on YouTube, there is a unique URL for each video. Just highlight this URL and copy the same by right clicking and then selecting copy. Paste this URL on the appropriate field in Ripzor. Once you have done that just click the convert icon and select the video format you want the software the video to be converted to. Now select save giving the location you want to save the converted video to. 

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