Getting what you like, 15 free ways to download video from YouTube, google video etc.

After buying YouTube, Google was put into dock frequently for the video copyright. Surely, one of the reason may is Google’s so full wallet. So if you have your eye on a YouTube video, you’d better download the YouTube video to your local disc, or this video clip might be deleted for the legal problem on every unguarded moment.

Fortunately, because of YouTube’s being the rage, a lot of YouTube video download and conversion tools sprang up like bamboo shoot after spring rain. Here Jerry picked 15 YouTube download tools which are applicable by my test. In addition, here is a cool YouTube video converter I recommend. With it you can help you convert the YouTube video you download to PSP 2000/3000, Blackberry , iphone 3gs, ipod shuffle/touch/nano, Creative zen, Microsoft zune etc.

Window client

YouTube grabber 4.1: Downloads FLV files from YouTube. Simply copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, and press Download.

KeepV: This is a free and powerful software that download and convert Flash/FLV files (YouTube videos) faster and better than most transcoder.

Wondershare YouTube downloader: is totally a free program for downloading YouTube video clips to enjoy them off the Internet.

Web caching for PC: Watching the video normally and do not close the browser, when the video is loaded completely, go to C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files and you will find the FLV video you just watched.

OS X client

Get Tube: This is one utility to download the videos with the format mp4 or mp3 on YouTube site.

Plug-in

Fast Video Download: You will need browser Firefox. And then install the fast video download which is a plug-in for Firefox. It enable you to get streaming video from YouTube, Google video etc.
Ook? Video Ook 0.6.6: Another Firefox plug-in, enables you to download embedded videos from several systems (such as YouTube, Google Video, Pornotube, Metacafe and many more). ...

Web
Hey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats including HD very quickly. The graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an FTP server or to online storage.

Zamzar is a free online file conversion web application that can not only convert videos off the Internet to AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MP4, MOV, etc., but also converts between audio, image, and document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your favorite format.

Vixy.net is another site that not only downloads online videos, but will also convert them to AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don't have to worry about downloading a FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format. (Same as Zamzar)

ClipNabber allows you to download videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc. by simply copying and pasting the URL. You'll then get a link whereby you can download the file to your computer, iPod, iPhone, or any other media player. You'll need to have an FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use!

VidDownloader supports about 10 sites including the major ones and can download the videos in DivX AVI format. It's very easy to use and can also extract only the audio from a video by choosing "Just Audio" on the download page. You don't have to worry about having an FLV player since it converts the files to Windows format.

According to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc. You'll have to rename the files you download from YouTube with the .FLV extension at the end.

This site is a foreign site, but is easy to use and supports most of the major sites. You can also download a free FLV player off their site to play videos from YouTube.

DownThisVideo has a nice tag cloud at the top that you can click on to find videos quickly. From what I could tell, this site is mostly used by Japanese because the popular videos are mostly Anime, etc. However, you can still use it to download any YouTube video.

Free trial or get Wondershare FLV Converter for only $25.95