How to record YouTube videos

Why YouTube is the hottest video sharing site

YouTube launched in 2005 and purchased by Google in 2006, quickly grow to be the hottest video sharing site. There are many reasons for this. As a fun of YouTube, I have to say, you can find anything you want from YouTube like old classic music, player or how to cook a strange fish you got from market. And you can upload any video you have to YouTube at the same time, that’s the reason we love YouTube.

While you are surffing on YouTube, some of YouTube videos really worth to be saved to your PC for other video creating, teaching, training, sharing, or just transfer to mobile devices for ringtone.

Here we are going to talk about how to record YouTube video with both freeware and shareware.

Video Tutorials about how to record YouTube video

I record a video with Screen Recorder and upload to YouTube, show how to record YouTube videos with media catcher and Video Downloader.

Ways to Record YouTube videos

Streaming Media catcher tool

These tools use streaming recording technology to record video and audio from website.
Like Streaming Audio Recorder, streaming video Recorder, you just need to open YouTube video to play in your browser. The video will be detected and automatically recorded.
Some of famous media catcher tools are Getflv, Applian, Jaksta, streaming video recorder etc.

Download YouTube Video Recorder

Record YouTube by URL

Some video downloaders can directly record YouTube videos without open the videos, you only need to copy video address and paste it into the program, YouTube videos will be recorded easily.
There is a program I mentioned in the demo video, can be named YouTube Downloader, this tool can search, download, convert video from YouTube.

Free YouTube Video Downloader
This free YouTube downloader can be downloaded from Cnet.com, the UI is simple and easy to use.
http://download.cnet.com/Free-YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-75219434.html

1 Alex ~ May 9, 2009 at 3:12 am

1AVCapture should be mentioned. 1AVCapture records video directly from YouTube with the advantage that you can select the area where the video is playing leaving out logos or whatever else you don’t want. It records directly to AVI or WMV, and even uncompressed for posterior editing. It works with any codec installed on the PC. It can also record streaming audio to WAV, WMA, or MP3.

http://www.pcwinsoft.com/1avcapture/

Best,
Alex

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2 Alex ~ May 9, 2009 at 3:15 am

Please disregard my last comment. I didn’t realise this wa a product page. I thought it was like a forum. Sorry.

Best,
Alex

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3 Larry ~ May 9, 2009 at 6:54 am

It doesn’t metter, and thanks for your suggestion of the software.
That was good to record YouTube videos.

Regards
Larry

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4 Jim117 ~ Aug 13, 2009 at 3:11 am

The Youtube Robot software is quiet easy to use, the styles are interesting!

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5 Ted ~ Oct 1, 2009 at 10:18 am

Can I tranfer a downloaded video to a cd?

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6 Cathy ~ Oct 31, 2009 at 2:52 am

download videos from YouTube and stores them on computer, i like this program!

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7 Jean ~ Dec 18, 2009 at 8:46 am

can anyone help to explain why every time when i wanna download videos from youtube, i do as this page says press Add URL , paste the site of video but it can’t download it just opens a new window in Mozilla fox…

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X Reply:
August 22nd, 2010 at 9:54 am
I have the same exact problem. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with it? Please????

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Larry Reply:
December 7th, 2011 at 7:35 am
That’s because this tool need to record video when you are watching it.
If you don’t want to Open IE or Firefox, recommend you use video downloader that work with adding URL.
Video Downloader

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8 muda ~ Feb 3, 2010 at 1:59 pm

hallo

I DOWNLOADE A REALPLAYER SP BUT I CAN’T GET THE OPTION DOWNLOADE THIS VEDIO FROM YOUTUB PLEASE HELP ME TO FIXED

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9 Streaming Video Recorder ~ Mar 30, 2010 at 4:22 am

Thanks for the guide… I think recording video using webcam is a faster and cheaper way of producing own video content.

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10 Anonymous ~ Jul 24, 2010 at 2:15 am

cool

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11 Bede ~ Oct 18, 2010 at 12:52 am

After following these above steps, I record YouTube videos with on problem. I’ve wondered how can i record video from YouTube for a long time. This YouTube video recorder works perfectly; I like it and this is what i’ve been looking for.

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12 Longfellow ~ Jan 7, 2011 at 1:01 am

Easy instruction on how to record YouTube videos with high quality of video and audio. Even support converting videos into various video or audio formats. I am so happy to find the solution, great idea for the collection of my video library…..

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13 mike ~ Jun 28, 2011 at 12:14 am

yeah but how do you convert it into an mp3 player?

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14 Asaf ~ Aug 7, 2012 at 1:59 am

sounds like a good piece of software. for recording purposes, i generally use audials moviebox. you get the same options, recording/downloading youtube videos by url, screen recording as well but the simplest method is probably recording by url or just playing the video and letting the soft capture the file from the website (probably the fastest as well). and on top of that, you can also convert the files to different video formats or simply record directly as MP3 and, if you;re interested there is also a DVD ripping option. And it works with Youtube as well as with other similar video patforms, streaming videos, live broadscasting and so on.

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