How to Download YouTube Videos and Music
YouTube is the biggest video sharing website on the Internet, and the main reason is that it’s simple and easy to use. Users can post their own materials, comment on videos posted by others and participate in various other activities.
However when you find a YouTube video or maybe a song that you love, it’s a shame you can’t download it directly to your computer. We do understand it has to do with copyright and other related stuff, but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to watch videos when offline? Well folks, there’s a way to download YouTube videos straight from the website into your drive. Here’s how to do it.
Real Player
Real Player is a media-playing suite that will play all media types available on your system. There are many versions of Real Player (our advice, Real Player 11) so better go for the one that’s free: download it, then install it to your machine. Once you have installed the software you should make sure that it is added to your startup menu
Now restart your system. Once you log on toYouTube whenever you play videos, you will see a download button displayed on the upper right hand corner.
When you click on the download button, the video will get stored on your hard drive in .wmv format (which you can, of course, convert into other types with the video converter utilities, as well).
YouTube downloader
YouTube downloader is a popular freeware software that is used by thousands of internet users to download videos from YouTube because the files are very small and won’t take much space on your hard drive.
Once the software is installed, you can simply copy paste the URL of the video of your choice and it will get downloaded. The best part about this software is that it allows users to download videos from other video websites, too.
The above mentioned are just two of the huge number of software programs regularly used by surfers to download videos from YouTube. Here are a few points that you need to keep in mind before downloading these videos.
- Convert the video to AVI or MPEG format if you want to play it on your handheld video player
- Use a destination folder for all your video downloads, this will help you find them easily
- Click on the hi-def button on YouTube to download videos of better quality
Now enjoy your videos, even offline.
