by John Greece

Created on: November 03, 2008   Last Updated: August 06, 2011

YouTube is a wonderful place with many interesting information about any subject. Visitors have the opportunity to search and find among of hundreds of thousands of informative videos. But how really can someone download a video from YouTube? There are a couple of methods that explained below on how to download videos from YouTube directly on a computer.

DESKTOP-BASED METHODS

This method requires to download and install particular software program before starting to download videos from YouTube. There are programs that require to buy a license and others that are free of charge. Let us see some free software programs.

• RealPlayerCafe: The famous player is one of the easiest ways to download videos from YouTube. Download RealPlayerCafe and after the installation you will have the opportunity to search, find and download your favorite YouTube videos totally free.

• Miro: It is better known as the Democracy Player. Miro is about a free open-source software program which allows downloading videos not just from YouTube but also from other websites such as National Geographic, History Channel and other.

• Orbit: You can also download Orbit Downloader. A free program that users can download videos just with one simple click nearly from any website.

WEB-BASED METHODS

If you do not want to install any software program on your pc then it is a better idea to use web based methods in order to download videos from YouTube and have more available space on your hard disk to use it by doing other things. Such websites are:

• ZamZar.com: It operates in the form of "copy and paste" and videos could received in different kind of formats like avi, wmv and others. Registration is not necessary but you have to give your email address in order ZamZar send you the link (after the conversion) to download the video.

If you do not want to give any information to any website like the email address you can use other sites that operate in exaclty the same way (copy and paste).

• KeepVid.com: Copy and paste links from YouTube and download videos in flv (low quality) or mp4 (high quality) format.

• VideoDL.org: Copy and paste links from YouTube and Google and download videos in flv format.

• Vixy.net: Copy and paste links from Youtube and download videos in different formats (avi, mov, mp4, 3gp etc).

• JaviMoya.com: Copy and paste links from YouTube, Google, iFilm and many other websites and download videos in

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