YouTube surely become the largest video sharing provider in the web. Anyhow, the video file is meant for web-watch only and cannot be saved directly from the site. Therefore, lots of software is being developed to automatically download the video content based on url address we typed. But, the latest software i tried to do this (YouTube Downloader) seems didn’t succeeded in doing this. A friend of mine told me that these kinda automatic-downloader software is no longer able to do its task, since YouTube already block it. :( phuw, sad newz..

But wait, then i’ve think of something quite handy to keep the video content from YT. Here’s the step-by-step tutorial:

1.  Open your fave web browser (IE, Opera, Firefox, etc..) and clear the cache/temporary dir. You can find the list of browser’s temporary folder below. Make sure u already had the video content’s url (eq. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWl_5NujBw) u want to save. Type it to the address bar and open it.
2. Your browser will try to open the page and save all the resources in its temp file/cache dir. ;p Already had the clue? Yupe, our goal is to find the temp file of the video content in the browser’s cache dir. Wait till the video is loaded completely.
3. Next step, explore the temp file/cache dir of ur browser and search for a .tmp extension file. I think that file would have a size more than 1 Megs. That’s why it’s important to erase all the files in ur browser’s cache dir in step 1. Rename the file to something else u like and change the file extension from “.tmp” to ”.flv”. Copy the file to other place u prefer.
4. That’s it, the file u’ve copy is the video file, but in a .flv (flash video) file-type. Ordinary video player like Windows Media Player (old) cannot play this kinda file. Therefore there’s two option you can choose: Using alternative player to open the file (FLV Player YouTube, Moyea FLV Player, and Media Player Classic from K-Lite Codec would be fine) or convert the file to other familiar file-type like .avi, .mpg using video converter (FLV to Video Converter).

List of common browser’s Temporary File/Cache directory:

• IE : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\

• Opera: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\cache4 

•  FireFox: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

FYI, i am using Opera Web Browser and succeeded in saving Canon Rock video from YT. Further comments from you indeed needed bout this post..

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