Easy ways to rip YouTube videos

YouTube, which is one of the biggest and best video sharing website, has giant collections of videos. I, like many others, spend a good amount of time enjoying my favorite videos on this website. But I really want to save some fantastic videos for offline playback on my Apple TV.

The only pity is that YouTube is only a streaming video website and doesn’t provide us a link or a button to download or rip YouTube videos.

I guess most of you may have encountered the same problem about how to rip YouTube videos like me. Today I intend to share you with my own solutions for it.

Solution 1: Use YouTube video ripper software to finish the task

I have learned that there is a Streaming Video Recorder, which is an online video downloader and has the ability to rip video from YouTube onto your computer as soon as you start watching it.

Although this Streaming Audio Recorder is intuitive to use, it is necessary for you learn the basic skills of how to use this YouTube video ripper. I sum up the 4 steps for you.

Step 1: Download, install then launch YouTube video ripper.

Tips: Click “Add URL” button, you can add also a video URL and start to download the video soon.

Step 2: Click “settings” to set the target folder and the output format.

Step 3: Open YouTube.com, search your favorite video and play, the YouTube video ripper will immediately capture the streaming video address and start to record it.

Tip: When you want to stop recording YouTube videos, select a video file and left click it, then choose “stop to download” option.

Step 4: Click “Open” button to view your ripped YouTube videos. That’s all. Streaming Video Recorder is the easiest program for me to rip YouTube videos.

Imagine how nice it would be if you could rip YouTube videos and put the enormous number of your favorite videos into iPod. The good news is that you can actually record all YouTube videos with the YouTube video ripper.

Solution 2: To rip video from YouTube with KeepVid program

While I am viewing related tutorials to rip video from YouTube, I discover that KeepVid is a browser-based program with similar functions of the above recorder. You need to enter the YouTube videos URL and wait for it to convert video.html into video.flv.

The official website reminds me that we need to purchase an active version to start to rip YouTube videos. This Windows program has been tested on Dailymotion, Vimeo, Metacafe and more famous video websites so you can download Vimeo videos.

If you ever come across a splendid YouTube video and just want to save it, personally I advise you to get this Streaming Video Recorder. It is not only a good YouTube video ripper, but also a real online video recorder for users to record any video you are allowed to play.

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Why should you choose Streaming Video Recorder to rip video from YouTube?

- Once you start playing the video on the web, YouTube video ripper will capture the video automatically and immediately, even if you close your browser while watching (provided internet connection remains active for the duration of the recording).

- It allows you to download your preferred videos, movies, TV shows, and much more from other popular video sharing sites like MetaCafe, Fox, YouTube, Veoh, MySpace Video, and so on.

- Streaming Video Recorder can download videos onto hard disk in 1:1 high quality. This YouTube video ripper is your best choice to download free YouTube video and convert it AVI, ASF, MOV, MPEG-4 AVC, etc formats to your PC for enjoying in future.