10 November 2012

How to save YouTube video to a file in played quality

To do this, you need 2 free tools:

  1. Google Chrome (www.google.com/chrome)
  2. VLC Player (www.videolan.org/vlc)

Start watching your video in chrome. To test, you can use this URL http://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0. Remember to choose the needed resolution:

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Wait for the buffering to end. You don’t need to watch the video to the end. It’s the light grey bar that indicates the buffering:

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Open the folder:

%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash

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And copy the .TMP file to your desktop. Rename it to something more meaningful and change the extension to .FLV

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You can open this video now with VLC Player.

As a side note, you can export the video to other audio/video formats using VLC (including MP3)

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Enjoy your favorite videos even offline.

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