Dear readers, here is a very simple approach to saving youtube videos without using any software or any external sites. The technique is to use Internet Explorer (any version will do). Just follow the following steps:
1. Let the video fully load in your browser.
2. Open the ¨internet option¨ dialog box in the tools tab of Internet Explorer. Go to Tools->Internet Options->General
3. click on settings in the browsing history area.
4. A new dialog box will open. In that box click ´View Files´
5. The ´temporary internet file´ window will open.
6. Arrange the files their according to decreasing size.
7. Look for some file named something like ´get_video**´ of appropriate size. Generally the video files are in MB sizes or thousand kBs.
8. Copy the file to some convenient loaction in your hard drive.
9. Play the file with ´vlc´ media player. If you do not have vlc, the link to download it is http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ .
10. Rename the file according to your preference. The file will most likely be in .flv format although sometimes you can get .mpg also.
11. Enjoy and if this blog helps you, write some comment.
Hereś a update. The same technique can be used to save mp3 songs from various sites like esnips.com. In such case only you have to look for mp3 files in your temporary internet folder.
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