Technical Tips on Downloading from YouTube

Just to help Internet Activists / Bloggers / Video Activism fellows here, I had been asked some times how to take video down from YouTube & LiveLeaks etc and save on harddisk or CD/DVDs. Obviously this can be done but YouTube etc, don't like you to do so because they want everyone to go back to their site every time.

However this can be a problem because:

• YouTube is blocked in some countries
• YouTube is slow some times
• You need to up-load else where
• You need to keep a copy
• etc

There are websites via which you can download any YouTube or similar video stored online e.g. liveleak.com, you just have to cut and paste YouTube's URL into these websites and they will let you save the video file by helping you to create a file as they take the video Flash Video steam from YouTube:

Online Tools:

1. http://www.youtubedb.com/
2. http://www.videodownloadx.com/
3. http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/
4. http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
5. http://www.downloadandsaveyoutubevideos.info/
6. http://www.vidmetro.com/
7. http://www.filepop.com/index.aspx (conversion capable)

If you do this often you can actually find small handy utility programs that can help you save MecroMedia's Flash Video streams from YouTube etc, if you used any of these programs you don't need to even go via at of the above websites and your utility can Directly save YouTube's video steam on your PC:

Install your own downloader utility:

1. YouTubeGrabber
2. http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
3. http://youtube-downloader.en.softonic.com/
4. http://www.youtubedriver.com/
5. http://www.download3000.com/download_20295.html

There are actually many many more but be careful some of them can be nasty spyware nature, why try to exploit your PC while doing you some small YouTube favor.

Here is a small list of compatible sites that are equivalents of YouTube, there are hundreds of them out there actually :

1. MotionBox
2. vSocial
3. Blip.tv
4. Eyespot
5. Veoh
6. Jumpcut
7. iFilm
8. Revver
9. http://www.dailymotion.com/us
10. http://www.gofish.com/
11. http://www.veoh.com/
12. http://www.liveleak.com/
13. http://www.vimeo.com/
14. http://www.revver.com/

Enjoy your video and blog activism!

A useful technical info page here

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