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Wanna save your favourite youtube video into your computer? You come to right place!
Following are most popular and powerful Youtube video download program that Our editor recommended. Free download and have a try!
Size: 9.09MB
Version: 1.0
Price: $19.95
License: Shareware
Platform: Windows

Youtube Video Grabber supports grab video clips from popular website, such as Youtube, Google Video, iFilm etc. and save into PocketPC, PSP, Zune etc. In addition that, Youtube Video Grabber also offers powerful video converting functions, which allows you to convert online video to avi, 3gp,wmv, divx, xvid, wmv mpeg etc.
Size: 7.0MB
Version: 2.0
Price: $34.95
License: Shareware
Platform:Windows

YouTube Robot lets you download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune. Support batch and schedule mode.
Size: 4403KB
Version: 1.0
Price: $25.00
License: Shareware
Platform:Windows

Wondershare YouTube downloader is a very easy to use Youtube video download tool and YouTube Converter. It has the complete functions to download YouTube video, archive Youtube video, and convert YouTube video to iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Zune, Pocket PC and a lot of other mobile devices.
version: 2.0
size:4.5MB
Price: $19.95
License: Shareware
Platform: Windows


VideoGet, a Powerful tool for downloading videos from over 200 website including YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Vsocial and more. It offers excellent video conversion as well. You can easily convert flv formats into AVI, MPEG, WMV, mp4 3gp, mp3 etc.
version: 2.0
size:15,663 kb
Price: $29.99
License: Shareware
Platform: Windows
With My Video Downloader, You can easily download favourite videos from websites such as Youtube, MySpace, Google Video, Daily Motion, iFilm and many more.
version: 0.61
size:3.10MB
license: Freeware
Platform:Windows

Easily Download Video from YouTube, Google video, Metacafe, MySpace, DailyMotion, Pornotube and other popular sites, saving to AVI or MPEG formats.
version: 1.0
size:91 kb
Platform: All Windows
License: Freeware
YouTube Grabber allows you to download, upload, view and share FLV video clips online. It only supports FLV files.
version: 2.4
size:2.02MB
Platform: All Windows
License: Shareware

A great tool to download video/music/streaming media from YouTube, MySpace, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, support RTMP, Making your general downloading easier and faster.
version: 2.0
size:2.53MB
Platform:Windows
License: Freeware
Download Videos from Youtube, MySpace, and Google Video, then convert them to either MOV, 3GP, AVI, iPod or PSP Format.
version: 4.9
size:4.5MB
Platform: All Windows
License: Freeware
TubeSucker, one of the most popular YouTube Video Download program. It is a media player as well. It allows you to batch download 1000 videos from YouTube.com, and then convert video to avi, mpeg etc.
size:2.24MB
Platform:
Mac 10.4 or Later
License: Freeware
Rating: 
Get Tube, one great utility that help you to download video clips with mp4 or mp3 formats on Youtube.com.
A handy program for linux lovers. It allow you to download Youtube video clips in FLV formats. To play FLV video, you need to install flash player.
size:2.24MB
Platform: Linux
License: Freeware
Rating: 
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Plugin for FireFox
License: Freeware
Rating: 
A firefox plugin that can download videos from most popular video sharing websites including Youtube.com, google video, MySpace etc. It can automatically convert online video to AVI or Divx formats.
Web based Solution
In addition to installing a Youtube video downloading program into your pc, you can also download youtube video clips through website. Many websites offer such service. Following are some of popular websites, which can help you to download video clips.
However, downloading video through website is a little bit complex compared with downloading through software, because you have to search video clips in Youtube.com and copy the video clips URL into download box in these website, then you can save videos into computer.
Most of video clips downloaded through website will be saved as FLV formats (usually you have to add file extension ".flv" after the name of video clips). And you need to install flv player or media player that is compatible with FLV formats.
Simple and easy to use for every user, VideodownloadX.com allows you to download and share Youtube video with friends through email. However, you have to add the .flv extension manually.
KeepVid is another simple site. In addition to supporting download video from Youtube.com, it also support Google Video, MySpace, DailyMotion etc. Just like VideoDownloadX.com, you need add the file extension .flv as well.
Similar to KeepVide, Video Downloader supports more video sharing website. You are free to grab all of video movies. You can also use this website as extension of Firefox. The downloaded video clips will be saved in FLV format.
What make this website special is that it allows you to access to youtube video downloading even when Youtube.com is blocked for you in some countries, since use the proxy technology. Just copy the URL of video clips in Google Video, Youtube.com, and leave to Youtube Downloas.
Actually, Zamzar is a website for video conversion. However, it do a lot more than video conversion. It enables you to download and convert video from Youtube.com to any other formats. Have a try now!
Media Converter is very similar to ZamZar and vixy.net. It requires you to registration. After log in, then you can download and convert videos from youtube.com. Compared with other video sharing website, it only support 5 websites.
Hey!Watch is an ambitious video encoding service with a large number of options, especially when it comes to converting videos to portable media player formats (it even supports my trusty iRiver H340.) Most online video converters often produce crappy results, with video and audio being out of sync, and this problem is also present on Hey! Watch, but it happens rarely.
Just like its name, YoutubeX.com allows you to download video from Youtube.com. In addition that, it offer more, such as playing video on the site. Its search engine is recommended. You can easily find the popular video clips there.
In VideoRonk, you can search video clips across multiple video-sharing sites including google video, Youtube.com, MetaCafe, MySpace and DailyMotion. The downloaded video will be saved as FLV formats.
Different from website listed above, VidDownloader allows you to download video clips from more than 10 website and save into AVI and DivX. So you don't need to install FLV player an more. It also extracts audio from video clips by choosing "just Audio" option on download page.
Using Kcoolonline, you can download video from Youtube.com, MySpace, Google and more than 117 video sharing website. And you need to add file extension .flv for downloaded videos, and a FLV player is also necessary to play movie.
A foreign website, easy to use, supports download video from most of video sharing website. You can also download a free flv player to play videos.
DownThisVideo offers a very clear and detail tag cloud at the top that you can click on to find videos quickly. It supports downloading video from google video and Youtube.com
An excellent website for online video downloading. This website enables you not oly download online videos, but also convert video clips to AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 formats. You won't need FLV player any more.
ClipNabber allows user to download video from Youtube.com, Metacafe etc through copying and pasting video URL. you can save the video to PC, iPod, iPhone and other portable device. An FLV video player is necessay.
Where you can search and download video listed in Youtube.com. The search result is very good. It allows user to view video online as well. To watch downloaded video clips, you have to add file extension .flv and install a FLV video player.
A simple site that support Youtube.com, Google Video, MySpace and Break.com. besides the video download function, the site also sports a top list of most viewed videos.
To download video from this website, you need to enter Youtube.com and copy the video URL, then paste to download box. You have to add file extension ".flv" to download files. and a FLV player is necessary to be installed to help you watch video.