It's very easy:

YouTube.Com has a lot of great videos, but I have to be online in order to watch them - there's no integrated way to save the movies locally. So after a bit of Google-fu, here is the procedure for capturing a flash movie to your local machine to watch offline. There are probably other ways, I found this to be the simplest.

1.) First, you may need a program for watching the Flash movie on your machine after you capture it - I found the simplest to install and use to be "FLV Player 1.3.3". You can download it either from the author's home page, or direct from TheMook.Net.

2.) After downloading that file, "flvplayer_setup.exe", run it and follow the on-screen prompts to install (as you would any other program). If you're asked whether to associate the FLV Player as your default player for ".FLV" files, choose "Yes".

3.) Now that your player is installed, time to grab a video. As an example I'll use this video, "Arnold Rave", from YouTube.Com.

4.) Copy the URL of the video you want to your clipboard - in this case, the URL for "Arnold Rave" is "



5.) Go to KeepVid.Com and paste your copied URL into the textbox at the top of the page; then choose "YouTube" from the drop-down list at right; and finally, hit the 'Download' button.

6.) The KeepVid.Com page will refresh, and now there will be a new link named "Download Link" just under the textbox. Right-click the "Download Link" and choose "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As...". Save the file wherever you like on your local machine - the default file name is "get_video.htm".

7.) Once the file is downloaded, rename it to whatever you like, as long as it ends with a ".FLV" extension. For example, rename "get_video.htm" to "conan.flv".

8.) And that's it, you're done If you double-click the file "conan.flv", the FLV Player you installed in "Step 1)" should automatically open and play the movie for you.

Thanks, this was really helpful! I've been wondering for a while how to do this. There used to be another way, with a youtube.com/get_video.php... etc etc link directly when you right-click a youtube video, but that hasnt been working for quite a while for me...

Thanks again.