download videos from youtube/youku etc

[AllanF]

How do you do it?

[ashe]

Firefox has an add on for it

[edededed]

Safari can do it natively! Wata!

[bailewen]

ant.com <--firefox addon.

[RobP2]

Zillatube then Smart FLV converter

[bailewen]

Nah man. There's no need for any of those sites. Pain in the ass. Why bother copying the url when you can install ant.com and just click "download" on your browser bar.

I don't bother with video conversion either. If you have the right codecs installed you can play .flv files with media player. I think VLC plays them without any modifications. For codecs you need to install K-lite (google it) and then you never have to bother with that stuff again.

Seriously, this stuff has gotten so much simpler over the past couple years. ant.com toolbar + k-lite codec pack = download and play anything with no pasting or copying urls or video conversion or other headaches.

[Teazer]

Go to Clipnabber.com - just paste in the youtube address you want and pick the link to mp4 or flv depending on your preference. No need to install anything.
http://clipnabber.com/

[GrahamB]

I installed the latest RealPlayer and now it tries to automatically download every bloody YouTube video I watch. The problem is stopping it!

[Michael]

Yeah, but I think Allan needs to know how to get youtube from inside the PRC.

I was on vacation in the USA so long I pretty much forgot what all I was using for proxies.

[Dmitri]

I've used http://www.vdownloader.es/ several times and it worked well.

[Butterball]

keepvid.com

[AllanF]

Many thank guys, off to download some clips now!