A few weeks ago i watched a music video on youtube...went back to watch it again yesterday, only to discover its been taken down by the copyright police :( which got me to thinking...sometimes it would be handy to be able to download the video when i found it, to avoid such crap...same thing happens all the time with movie trailers as well.
Anyway, i found vidgrabbr.com which has proved jolly useful! Real nice clean design, the easiest thing ever to use :)
All you do is paste in the url of the page the video you want is on (you can do youtube, dailymotion, and a few others as well), hit go and the video is ripped out of the page and downloaded to your PC right there and then.
Do bear in mind that most video is .flv, so it won't play in media player or much else - so you'll need a converter of some sort. I downloaded a copy of youtube robot from vidgrabbr, which i find great - you can download video from the software itself, and convert to a variety of filetypes suitable for pc or mobile devices such as your ipod or mobile phone! Marvellous :)
Have a look for yourself, the software can be downloaded straight way in trial mode and used for 30 days free! the site itself can be used for ever, for free :)
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YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert flv files to various video formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.
YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.
Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.
Product page: w ww.youtuberobot.com
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