Use add-ons of Firefox browser to download YouTube movies
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There is no doubt that you must have faced problems downloading movies from YouTube? There are few persons who browse the net regularly and love videos that have not heard about or visited YouTube. Before this site was launched people had to face lots of problems sharing their personal videos. There are many people who take different types of videos that include hilarious ones, educative ones or just simple ones of their family and most of them want to share these videos with their family and friends. Till a few years back the only option that they had was to burn the movies on a CD and send it by normal post to the recipient. This proved to be too costly, but in postage costs and the cost of the CD, and one had to spend time burning so many CD’s too.
With the advent of high-speed broadband and introduction of file sharing sites one could upload their videos for others to download. Even this was time consuming and people wondered if there was a way that the size of their videos could be reduced without sacrificing too much of quality. YouTube provides solutions to all these problems. When someone uploads their videos to this site, the video is converted on the fly to a small size .flv (flash) file and is embedded on a web page. The poster has to just send this url to their friends and relatives so that they watch the streaming movie online. Being saved in the flash format helps reduce the size of the movie and even those on a low bandwidth connection can enjoy the same painlessly.
They only problem is that one have to watch the movies online. They cannot save it on their hard drive for viewing offline. Some web companies that specialize in producing services that permit one to download videos from YouTube have resolved these problems. There is just one hitch. One has to pay money for purchasing and using these programs. There is a free option out there for those who use the Firefox browser. If you do not have firefox installed, download and install it. Now search for the greasemonkey add-on (in firefox select tools> add ons> get extension).
In the page that opens, search for greasemonkey and install it. This is not an issue and firefox along with the web page will guide you with hints. Once you have installed greasemonkey, download the `save YouTube video’ script from www.userscripts.org. This is all that you need to do. Visit the YouTube site and select the video you are interested in downloading. With this program installed you will see a `download video’ option on the YouTube screen. Just load the video and click on the `download video’ button to download your favorite movie from YouTube. It is recommended that you give an appropriate name to the movie you are downloading. Use any video converter to convert the downloaded movie to a format of your choice.