How To Save YouTube, MySpace. etc. Videos As AVIs

(Using only free tools!)

What You Will Need
- Firefox (I use 1.5.0.4)
- VideoDownloader Extension for Firefox
- MediaCoder (I use 0.5.0)

Instructions:
1) Download and install all of the free tools listed above.

2) Goto a site (such as Youtube, MySpace, GoogleVideo, iFilm, etc.

3) Search and find a video you would like to keep.

4) Click the VideoDownloader Button in the bottom right part of your Firefox Browser window.

5) A window will pop-up. Click the button that says 'Download Link.'

6) Click 'Save to Disk' and then click 'OK' in the 'Downloads' window.

***NOTE: If the file you download does not have the extension .flv, then rename the file and end the name with .flv***

7) Start up MediaCoder

8) Drag and Drop the .flv file(s) into the large white area

9) Click the 'Video' tab in the lower left-hand section on the window and select 'XviD' in the 'Format' drop-down menu.
10) Click the large 'Start' button (third from the right at the top of the window) to begin transcoding the video(s).

11) Once a window pops up saying that the transcoding has completed, then you are done!

Now that you have the videos in .AVI format, you can use Nero, dvdSanta, or some other DVD video burning program to burn these videos onto a DVD so you can watch them on any standard DVD player!



12. SUPER : http://www.download .com/SUPER/ 3000-2140_ 4-10557837. html )

Here is one way you could go about transcoding your video with SUPER:

After you have encoded the video, you can find the new .AVI version of the video in the C:\Program Files\eRightSoft\ SUPER\OutPut director

Replay A/V is a good commercial utility for recording ALL kinds of streaming video. The same company also makes Replay Converter which can convert those videos into AVIs or iPod/PSP formatted videos.