Saving a YouTube Video onto Your Desktop
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There may be times when you see a video on YouTube or some other portal that you want to download. Videos sometimes are taken off YouTube and this saves the video to your computer. There is a site that does it quickly and efficiently, in five easy steps:
link: Media Converter
You just need to give the address of the video that you want and the form that you wish to have it. For example, if you are using Windows Media Player, you would select the avi format. The site looks for the video and converts it. Then it asks you to download it; and, as usual, you select where you want to put the download. Depending on the time of day, the whole process just takes a few minutes. Further you can upload and convert videos from your own machine.
The site is fast, easy, efficient and free. There is a premium service but if you just want to save the occasional video, the free service should be fine. There is a good FAQ section. Media Converter does an excellent job presenting the service.
Catherine Forsythe
2 Comments
HarryH
July 18th, 2008
at 11:36pm
Gee, I use FF with the DownloadHelper extension. Captures most flash video as flv files and there is an add-on that will convert to whatever you want, on the fly. Why should I visit another website?
My MediaPlayerClassic treats flv’s as any other video and VLC does the same. I abandoned M$ WMP long ago as a bloated piece of junk with no native support for alternate AVI codecs.
someone
July 19th, 2008
at 9:55am
use keepvid to do this online it self with/out software heck I don’t care if you do or not thouigh but its a bit better for me to use it or Rreal players builting plubgin to Firefox, IE7 and safari.