I'm on the digest, so for all I know you already received a response but someone recently forwarded me these instructions on how to download YouTube videos. I haven't tried this myself so I don't know for sure how well or easily it works but nevertheless: ___________________________ You *can* download it, but you do have to be on the Internet and the video does have to be playing in a separate browser for you to do so... and the download can take a while, even using high-speed Internet. As well, you need a special player to play it (it downloads as a Flash video, .flv), the download of which may take hours and hours, especially on dialup! So yes, it can be done, but it's almost not worth it. However, once you've downloaded the player you don't have to again, and once you've downloaded the video you can watch it as many times as you want on your computer. If you really want to, here's how: Have a browser open with the video playing (on Youtube, Google Video, etc.). Open another browser window and go to http://www.videodl.org. Copy and paste the URL for the video into the space and click "get it". Then, right-click the link that comes up underneath that says "Download link" and choose "Save target as...". Save it as a .flv file and let it go! There are links for flash video players in the box at the bottom. _________________________-

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:53:55 -0000 From: "Mark Weston" <mark.weston5@ntlworld.com> Subject: [Orb] OFF TOPIC.........You Tube Video ripping / downloading To: <KLF@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Orb@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: <000701c71201$9314ce30$8a01a8c0@main> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi.all......need your help here.

Please can anyone tell me if there is a programme or something i can use to download videos from Youtube web site.

Look forward hearing from you

Regards Mark W.