Tutorial
People have been asking me how to download videos from YouTube. It’s easy, really. Just that its quite leceh.
First, make sure you have Mozilla Firefox installed on your computer.
Then, go to the menu up there .. TOOLS –> ADD-ONS –> GET EXTENSION (small link at the right hand corner).
Then just search for any add-ons/extensions that says something like “video downloader”. I’m using Fast Video Download. But I’ve tried Ook and some others which work just as fine.
When you have installed that add-on, an icon will appear at right hand corner.
Now you can try loading a youtube video that you intend to save, in your browser. Wait till it finishes downloading. Then just click the icon that appeared earlier. A common save-as dialong will appear, save macam biasa (like normal saving la).
That’s only the first part. And I know, Opera also has widget that can download this kind of video, but I found Mozilla’s more convenient (yerp, have tried).
When you have downloaded that, you’ll realize that your video is in FLV format (flash video). And sadly, winamp or windows media player can’t play this format. So how??
Yerp, have to convert.
And again, sadly, no ordinary converter can convert FLV to avi or any other format. Have to use specific converter.
I’m using RIVA FLV encoder. Just type “riva flv encoder download” in Google. You’ll find it. Yes, its free.Not trial version what so ever. Neat.
You’ll find using this converter is simple when you know how.. haha.. read some tutorial, k. Rajin lah mencari.. I spent quite sometimes searching for converters and learning how to use them. Sila tidak teragak-agak utk mencari juga.
And there you go!
If you find you cannot hear any sound, or cant see any images after converting the video, that means your computer doesn’t have certain codecs. So, just download K-Lite All-In-One codec , k. Then install to your computer. Again, search it at Google. What is codec, you ask? Sorry, wrong person.. haha.. Takpayah la tau.. yang penting download ajer.. I don’t really know.. I just know I need it to view my drama/videos/movies.
Akhir kata…. carilah video-video yang berguna di youtube tuh. Banyaaak! Documentaries best-best and clips2 nasyid. Kene pandai cari!
Sorry, this tutorial got no pictures what-so-ever.. heh.. termalas nak letak gambo. Tapi faham kan?? Kalau ada apa-apa kemusykilan, just ask, k?
Um..simple kan? heh..
i know an easier way!!
just go to getvid.com
enter the url and save as wutever.flv
=)
but yeah, must first dwnload
flv player=)
Comment by anonymous — February 5, 2007 @ 9:31 pm
well, there are many ways of acquiring the flv file, and as I assume most of us have mozilla already, getting mozilla’s extension is not that hard i think. and with the extension, we can save whatever that we have viewed right away (in/less than seconds too, after we have viewed it in youtube) because it saves the video from the temp folder, I think.
the hard part is to convert the flv to another format.
Comment by Mai — February 5, 2007 @ 9:49 pm