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How to Free Download Youtube, Google, Yahoo Video?

This step-by-step guide will show you how to download video from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo and other video download website. Videos come from those websites are streaming videos. You need special software to capture steaming videos. Here we take YouTube video for example, show you the step by step guide about how to download streaming video to computer for free, it provides two methods:
1. With free online flv converter;
2. With firefox
Note: If you want to transfer youtube video to your iPod, you can drag it to your iTunes library (or click iTunes "file" -> "add files to library"), plug in your iPod to computer, and then select your iPod device on the left panel of iTunes, click "Movies" tab, check the videos you want to sync and click "Apply", done.

If your downloaded YouTube video is not MP4 video, you have to convert it to iPod format at first, take a look at this iPod Video Converter, it is a powerful and easy-to-use iPod touch Video conversion software which provides a completed solution to convert iPod touch video from all popular video formats, including dvr-ms, MPEG, DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, WMV, AVI, ect.

Methods 1. With free online flv converter

Step 1. Open this website: http://vixy.net/. It's a free online FLV converter.
Step 2. Then go to YouTube and find a video that you love.
Like this format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

Step 3. Paste your video file URL to the input box (figure as follow), choose the right format you want. If you want to edit the video, AVI is a good choice. And MP4 is fit for iPod, PSP, Zune, Apple TV and other MP4 players. This online converter also can rip audio to MP3. Then wait for the conversion.

Step 4. When the conversion finished, we got the download link of the output video. Click the download link to download the video and save in your computer (remember where you save it in). Done.

Methods 2 . With Firefox

Step 1. Install the videodownloader extension. This is a free plug-in for Firefox. It enables you capture streaming video from website. Here is the Download link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390
Step 2. Go to the video you want to download, double click that little box(In the bottom right), and select download link. Then you could download the streaming video you want. (Note, you have to rename the file extension from “html” to “flv”)

You have to rename the file extension from “html” to “flv” when you save the link. (Make sure your compute is show file extension)

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