Perhaps you all have gone trough a YouTube videos that you desperately want to watch, but at the same time the internet connection just not on your side. Watching lagged videos sure annoying.
The solution that I found is to download the videos and watch it with external player. (click “Continue reading” to view the rest how to…)
But YouTube has made downloading their videos hard, and actually they don’t want the videos to be downloaded.
A few ways downloading YouTube videos directly is by using third party link grabber, the best I’ve found was YouTubeX.com (it wasn’t porn (X) related site, its OK.). The other you may try VideoDownloader FireFox plugin.
Enter the YouTube video URL and let their apps retrieve the direct video link. The returned link will be used to download directly into your hard disk.
When using the YouTube site, it is only one connection used to play the streaming file. When you experience lagged, that single connection will wait before it retries. Therefore, you actually wasting the rest of your connection potential.
The fastest method to download the file is using “multi-connection” download manager. The favorite I’m using now is FlashGet 1.73. By using FlashGet with the grabbed link, it will connect to YouTube server with multiple connections… thus surprisingly made the video download 5~10 times faster. Besides you can have a few videos to be in download queue.
The downloaded files will be in flash video format, .flv… in certain cases, the downloaded files wasn’t saved as .flv, so you have to rename the file extension.
To play the video you need the FLV Player or just install K-Lite Mega Codec Pack and play all .flv files within Windows Media Player.
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