Saving clips from youtube

[ecb]

Does anyone know of any freeware (or paid for software) that can be used to download (and save) YouTube clips?

[blueivy]

Does anyone know of any freeware (or paid for software) that can be used to download (and save) YouTube clips?

Firefox has a number of addons that will save YouTube clips - they are all free. I would tell you what they are, however there are quite a few of them and they are easiy found so I'll let you make your own mind up (and also the one that i had I uninstalled a while ago and have fogotten what it was called :-))

There are probably similar addons for IE7 too.

[BazzaG]

I use Youplayer add on on firefox, Very easy to use

[Solus]

google search , rip youtube vids , loads out there that just require you to add the address and saves it for you.

Lat one i used was a german site, out of all it was the best and most consistant, if i find it i will pm it to you.

[stewart4364]

Any clips I want to keep I shall just keep as a favourite. It is easy to do and free.

[joxville]

I use Real Player which is free. As soon as the video start to play a small box appears at top right of video asking if you want to downlaod it, which usually takes just a few seconds.

[lazytown]

I have also used realplayer to download clips.

I also use other software which is free and has load of different converters, quite good, I have used it to download a music video from youtube then extract the audio to mp3 format.

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

[ecb]

Thanks for your replies. If anyone else is interested in this kind of thing, then the following links (supplied to me in pms) might be of interest to them:

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6002394

Or for converting .flv files (the format used by YouTube) to .mpg or .avi files (playable on most pcs without adding extra software):

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic259578.html

[kgunn]

I got a good program, it searches YouTube for you and you can watch the videos before downloading them as well, it's on http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html then click on Free FLV Converter at the side.