Is there any way to download a video file from YouTube(Vanity)?

February 22, 2010 | Me

[rightwingintelligentsia]

A manager at work wants me to download a YouTube file for them to save and embed in a presentation they're giving.

Such things are a bit above my pay grade, technically speaking. Does anyone here know how to do that without purchasing software or logging on to some dubious third party site?

Thanks so much.

[plinyelder]

When the video is playing .. put ABC in front of ‘youtube’ in the address url and hit enter.

For instance, here is the address url for a Celine Dion video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYo39ezNzBE&feature=rec-rev-rn-1r-8-HM

Here is the same url with the aforementioned ABC: http://www.abcyoutube.com/watch?v=BYo39ezNzBE&feature=rec-rev-rn-1r-8-HM

Once you hit enter .. you will be sent to a page where you can download the video as FLV, MP4, MP3, 3GP and just about any other way that you want.

[plinyelder]

BTW .. You can click on the ABC link and it will take you to the page that I was speaking of as an example.

[gitmo]

Thanks for the tip.

[rabidralph]

Also, you will need to convert the video to .wmv in order to embed it in a PPT, unless you leave the video on Youtube and just add a link to it in PPT. Search for Any Video Converter. It's a great, free program for converting videos to other formats.

[rabidralph]

download.com, a subsidiary of Cnet has an extensive listing of software downloads and Cnet is totally safe.

[plinyelder]

Glad to help

[call meVeronica]

bump for the record

[patriot08]

I thought you just clicked on ‘imbed’, copy and paste.