Sep 8 2006

How to Download Videos From YouTube and MySpace

  • Written by soulxtc
  • 30 Comments

Considering the craze over YouTube and MySpace that has overtaken the world as of late, there is an increasing demand to learn how to rip video and audio from pages on these sites. I’ll first go over how to rip video clips with a guide on how to rip audio to follow.

Now the only sticking point with this guide is that it requires you to use the Mozilla Firefox internet browser. So if you aren’t using Firefox already, now’s the time to do so.

Next we need to download and install the VIDEO DOWNLOADER extension tool for Firefox.

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(CICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE EXTENSION)

This will bring up the extension download toolbox, where you simply click “Install Now” to proceed.

This will be followed by a simple dialogue box that merely notes how one must restart Firefox for the Video Downloader extension to be fully installed.

So now it’s time to set up the Video Downloader extension tool. Start by clicking the “View” tab on the top of the browser, selecting through “Toolbars” and finally to “Customize…”

This will open up the toolbar customizer box. The tool we want to put on the toolbar is of course the “Video Downloader” extension. Select it with your mouse and then simply drag and drop it anywhere on your toolbar.

After you’ve finished dragging it onto the toolbar, close the toolbar customizer box by clicking “Done.”

So now that we’ve finished installing and setting up the Video Downloader tool, it’s time to take it for a test drive.

Start by going to a YouTube or MySpace page of your own choosing. One you are on the page with the embedded video you wish to copy click on the Video Downloader tool on Firefox’s toolbar as pictured below.

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This will then open up Video Downloader. Displayed in it’s dialogue box will be a listing of all the video media available to be downloaded. Simply click the “Download Link” tab adjacent to whichever videos you wish to download. It’s that easy.

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NOTE: Be sure that the download path for Firefox is set up to your personal preferences as shown in the sequence of images that follow.

Selecting “Options…” from the “Tools” tab will bring up the Options menu.

In the Options menu simply choose the desired save path for your files and then select “OK” to finish.

Now that we’ve selected and saved the video from whichever site was chosen, it’s time to go over how to play them on your PC. They are “.SWV” or Shockwave Video files so in order to properly play them we must either convert them to .AVI, .MPEG, etc.for playback on normal media players like Windows Media Player or WinAmp, or one can simply use the illustrious VLC Player where no further work is required.

To convert the video files to .AVI or .MPEG, the quickest and easiest method is to use WinAVI. There’s a guide here on Zeropaid that goes over how to convert them titled DVD Authoring with WinAVI. Instead of selecting “DVD” of course where it asks for the desired output type, choose MPEG 1.

Personally, I recommend using VLC Player, as its’s the fastest and easiest way to playback your downloaded video files. It also comes in handy when trying to play .BIN or .ISO files as well.

Remeber to to stay tuned for the next guide in this series, “How to Rip Music from MySpace”

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Comments

  1. Jorge

    cool now i can rip all those killer fight scenes from uTube.

  2. Betamax

    An alternative:

    http://keepvid.com/lite/

    All you need to do is add the shortcut.

    • Jeanne

      following links may also help you to find a YouTube and MySpace downloader:
      How to download YouTube videos
      it can help you download videos from YouTube and MySpace in a fast and very efficient way!

  3. MP3Pr0

    You can download VDownloader from
    http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://comunidad.uem.es/epuertas/categoria/programacion&prev=/language_tools
    (It’s towards the end of the page. The author speaks Spanish so bear with the English translation)
    -
    I prefer the Firefox plugin. It seems to work better.
    -
    Movies that you download may appear corrupt to some programs particularly AVI files downloaded from Google Video. You may have to re-encode them using a program like AVS Video Convertor. If you want to convert amongst video formats I recommend a program called “Super” at
    http://www.erightsoft.net/Superdc.html
    It works great for converting those FLV (Flash video) files to AVI/MPG.

  4. Zinyfix

    if you don’t like installing addons for every little thing like me then you can always do it The Hard Way :)
    http://www.ripzor.com/

  5. ejonesss

    in safari you can download by opening the activity window and then look for the item identified by an item who’s size keeps growing.

    select the item and hit command c to copy the url then in a new window paste the url and hold the option key and hit return.

    now safari is downloading

  6. phelix

    Just use this website. Don’t install MORE programs -> download myspace videos @ http://www.myspacevideosx.com

  7. jeohw222

    ***** Hope this help *****
    A way much easier way to grab Youtube video is to use zillatube (from http://www.zillatube.com ).
    It also converts to high quality videos of different formats to be played on various devices. Neat just one software to do all these.

  8. flvconverter

    http://www.flv-converter.com has more information on how to deal with FLV video/audio formats just one stop to view it.

  9. Isti

    You can use also http://www.tubedownloader.info

    It is a free online Youtube video downloader…you don’t have to download any program!
    Simply copy and paste Youtube link in the form and follow instructions.

  10. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  11. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  12. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  13. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  14. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  15. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  16. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  17. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  18. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  19. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  20. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  21. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  22. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  23. ConnectWith

    There’s a much much easier way to do this.

    Just go to http://www.myspacegrab.com
    Everything you need to grab myspace songs is there. No downloading or installing complicated software. Just click and download. That’s it!

  24. bugzlife

    this one is easier. just put the youtube link and click “Get link”.

    http://www.bugzlife.com/index.php/youtube-video-downloader-module.htm

  25. Jonas Fisher

    You dont have to install anything. Just go to http://downloadyoutubevideos.org

  26. John25

    Hi
    I use http://www.vid2pc.com
    Simple and good.

  27. David Losey

    After I have ripped them can I play them on laptop without being connected to the Internet? Also, once I have ripped them, can I copy them to a disc?

  28. hendarto lim

    thank you for the guide.. this is helping me from the troubling that i’m always asking can i download videos on yutube.. i am really appreciate your help..
    have a nice day..

  29. John

    This is great way to download videos from youtube

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