Download youtube videos

since youtube updated their design, none of the old video download methods work anymore. was wondering if anyone here knew how.

id like to be able to download and eventually get the videos to my iphone for offline viewing, but at the moment its just not happening.

ive already tried mxtube, but doesnt work.

Firefox with downloadhelper?

DownloadHelper works a treat and is updated regularly.

which version of downloadhelper needs to be installed or is it already on the current firefox?

thanks

Just go to the Add-ons page on the Mozilla site and install the latest version:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

cheers. this is the one you have to pay for isnt it. i think i tried to add it on before.

Do you know HTML?

YouTube offers a HTML5 beta which is using the HTML5 element instead of the Flash player. You can activate the beta at http://www.youtube.com/html5. You need to be using a recent version of Firefox, Safari or Chrome.

Then go to the video page you want to download. Open the source HTML (Ctrl-U on Firefox) and go through the source code and find the element. It's even easier with Web Inspector or Firebug. The element's src attribute has the url of the video in it. You can download it with the browser by pasting it in the URL bar. Instead of downloading it your browser might display it. In that case do a right click and then something like "save video".

Caveat: The HTML5 player isn't activated for videos with ads in it.

I might write a little bookmarklet that does this on a button click.

download Real media player and there is a tool on there that when you watch anything online a thing pops up asking if you want to download it. I used it before. Works a treat and its free