How to Copy Youtube Videos - An Easy Working way

Here is the most easiest and working way to copy Youtube videos and convert it into other formats such as MPEG,MP4,3GP etc.Most of the sites give you some confusing and very hard method to copy videos from Youtube but here I am presenting you with an easy way.Here is step-by-step guide to copy Youtube videos.

STEP-1. DOWNLOADING THE VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE

Basically the video from Youtube will be in the .flv format.The .flv stands for Flash Video format developed by adobe systems.So first you have to download and save this .flv file from the Youtube to your PC before you convert it into your favorite format.

First find the URL of the the desired youtube video.The URL of the video will be usually in the following format as shown below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKmKEBp9lc

If it is country specific, the video URL may also be in the following format.

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKmKEBp9lc (Here in stands for India)

You can find this URL in the Youtube site itself beside or below the video.Now once you get this video URL you can use any one of the following plugins to download the videos in the .flv format.

* KissYouTube - KissYouTube offers an easiest way to download the Youtube videos.Just visit the site and you'll find a box to enter the video URL.In this box enter the URL of the video you want to download and click on GO.Next you will see a Download Button at the bottom.Click on it and save the video with the extension as .flv .
* DownloadHelper - DownloadHelper is an excellent firefox plugin to download videos from Youtube.
* MyVideoDownloader - MyVideoDownloader Downloads and converts videos from many sites, not just YouTube.



STEP-2. CONVERTING THE VIDEO FROM .FLV TO OTHER FORMATS

Once you have downloaded the video and have the video in the .flv format you can use any of the freely available/commercial video conversion softwares to convert the video into the desired format.But here in this tutorail I prefer OJOsoft Total Video Converter to convert the video into other formats.The speciality of this video convertor is that it supports almost all the formats.You can convert the Youtube video into the following formats

* AVI
* MP4
* 3GP
* MPEG
* VOB
* MOV (Quick time video)
* WMV
* And many other formats

OJOsoft Total Video Converter also allows you to specify the attributes of your output video such as Bitrate,Framesize,Resolution etc.So according to me this is one of the best video conversion software available.Not only for Youtube videos, you can also use this convertor for converting other videos also.

Once you convert the Youtube video to MPEG format you'll be able to paly it with Windows Media Player.If you want to play it on your mobile devices then you may also convert it into .3GP of .MP4 formats.