How to Save Youtube Videos

Posted by Prem Godara | 1/04/2009 01:09:00 AM | , , , , , | 2 comments »

Many people spend time online by watching videos over YouTube website but watching videos online will eat out lot of your bandwidth, hence it is not recommended for those who have dial-up internet connection.
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Wouldn't it be better if the Youtube videos can be saved on your Hard drive so that it can be watched will you are offline and you need not have to worry about the bandwidth problem.

First, to save Youtube videos on your Hard drive, you need to have Mozilla Firefox browser installed on your system.

If Firefox is installed on your system then follow the below steps:

1. Play the Youtube video that is to be saved in Firefox.

2. Once the video is fully played, close Firefox.

3. Navigate to “C:\Documents and Settings\User Profile\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Any Name.default\Cache” (where C: is where the OS is installed, User Profile is the name of the user profile and Any Name can be anything followed by ".default" as folder name).

4. In the Cache folder, rearrange all files by size.

5. Now look for the files with maximum size and its modified time to be around the same time you watched the Youtube video.

6. If you find any files like that then those must be Youtube videos.

7. Change the extension of the files to .flv.

8. Now, play the .flv files in an FLV Player.

Do give your valuable feedback, on how easy was it for you to save the Youtube videos.



2 comments

  1. Anonymous // January 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM  

    I think there are sites to download Youtube videos right???

  2. Prem Godara // January 8, 2009 at 10:06 PM  

    Yes, there are sites. This is just one of ways you can save while watching the video since it will downloaded on your system as you watch it..

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