The Personal Blog of David Gonzales: How-To

Since I'm on the topic of downloading Youtube videos to something anyway, and because some of you might like to actually know how I do it, here it is, my quick tutorial for downloading Youtube videos in MP4 file format.

It's actually pretty easy. No, very easy. In fact, it's so easy you can do it without a PC! Well, that's true, but that's another story. Anyway, here's what you have to do to download any Youtube video in high quality MP4 format.

First, turn on your PC, launch your browser (I recommend Mozilla Firefox), and... oh, are you already done doing that? OK then, on to the downloading procedure.

Step 1.

You see this little box right here? This is your ticket to high quality MP4 Youtube videos. To use it, drag it to the Bookmarks Toolbar of Firefox by using your mouse pointer (I don't know how it's supposed to work in IE; just use Firefox, dammit!).

Wow I can't seem to add the Bookmarklet that is needed for this operation.
Step 2. Just read this blog post for further instructions.

Go to Youtube.com, go the the video you want to download, click on the box where you put it in Firefox, and wait for words "Download as MP4" turn up just underneath the video embed code on the video page. Here it is in a screenshot.

Step 3.

This part is a bit tricky. To start the download, you need to right-click on the "Download as MP4" link, select Save As... give the video a new file name, and finish it by adding .mp4 at the end.

Now, all you need to do is wait for the video to finish downloading, and voila! You now have a free video on your PC courtesy of Youtube. And you are free to watch them on any device you prefer, such as I do with my iPod Touch. That wasn't so hard, wasn't it?

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