how to free download videos from website, like youtube?

[CrayDeng]

I just access to the Youtube website for a few month, and I wanna download music videos from it. I need a high speed downloading tool to help me to maintain the quality and convert the formats, of cause it would better be free.
I’m sorry to wasting your time by asking this stupid question, but I’ve used many softwares which I searched from google, but It’s either function limited by trial edition or not a free edition.

[ks47]

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic270338.html

[redwudz]

This isn't a user guide. Moving you to the Newibe General Forum.

[theewizard]

use www.keepvid.com

you can't get it any faster than it will stream, Download programs won't make difference.

the quality will be what ever the video quality is, a dl program won't change that, can't make it any better

you can also try sothink swf capture, for capturing flv and swf videos, it won't be faster or better quailty , just easier since it will notify you with a pop when you play the video, then just a few mouse clicks and it will DL it ( at streaming rate ) ( you can't get them any faster )

[Ethlred]

I find that Orbit in conjunction with its Grab++ utility very effective. I am using it with Firefox. With it you can grab a number of videos simultaneously and watch them later without it stalling out in the middle. While any single video may indeed be limited in speed to real time its possible to collect a set faster than real time.

Orbit is free @
http://www.orbitdownloader.com/index.htm

[theewizard]

I have firefox, I'll try orbit, i've been using sothink flash capture/DL utilty with firefox

but i just installed FF ver3 beta3, and sothink is not installed on this one

I think, it is supposed to have its own capture utilty, but i haven't found it yet.