 Youtube provides so many videos for us, and then sometimes I want to save the video into my laptop to play it next time. Unfortunately, Youtube doesn’t provide a tool or menu to save their video collection. You can find many software or Firefox plugins to help you to save Youtube video. But do you have known, you can save the video with Safari without added plugin. And this is a good trick especially for Mac user.
If you want to try this trick, open your Safari application first. And here are the steps to save their video:
1. Type www.youtube.com in URL box to open youtube.com.
2. Locate the video which you will download. You can search them first. Usually, I was using the search box. To use it, type the video keyword. For example, I want to find anything that linked to iMac word, so I type “imac” (without double quote) in box then press Enter.
3. After Youtube finds the video which related to your keyword, you can see them in result page, choose one in result list by click its link.
4. When the video has displayed,
open Safari’s Activity window by click Window – Activity menu.
5. In Activity window, find item which contains a word get_video and usually has biggest file size (To determine file size you can find it at Status field) and then double click that item.
6. Then Safari will download that file automatically, and you can see the download status in Downloads window that open automatically too.
7. After the file has downloaded, you’ll get a file that named: get_video and by default, Safari put it at Desktop.
8. Rename that file with your own name but give it .flv extension
click Add button when you asked.
Play it with FLV Player. If you want to put YouTube videos to a format compatible with your favorite portable device; including – iPod Video, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPhone, Zune, PSP, as well as video capable MP3 players, video capable mobile phones, and Pocket PC. Try this Youtube Mate. It also helps you download, convert, play and manage your favorite YouTube videos.
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