I am sick and tired of my favorite YouTube videos being removed

[pokerfan]

so I downloaded all the videos on my favorites list.

The final straw was when the treadmill-cats video link that I mass emailed last week was deleted. The address that was posted here last week is no more, though a search revealed others.

[Haole Girl]

1. Oh noes...

no more treadmill cat video?

That was one of my favorites!

[pokerfan]

2. Still there but no longer under the link I saved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjzd320gew

[GCP]

3. Aww - that's mean!

Speeding up the treadmill like that to get a cheap laugh! - Funny though!

[pokerfan]

4. Yeah but note how gracefully the feline exited the treadmill

Humans, not so much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Zq3NLoubU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-K_6MmIAJk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2-zP2B7Ok

[Lyric]

5. You can download videos from YouTube??

I didn't know this was possible.

[PeaceNikki]

6. There are a few ways

One is if you have RealPlayer installed, a "Download this Video" link appears in upper right-side of the videos.

[pokerfan]

7. Yeah

Download tool for Firefox:
http://www.downloadhelper.net

Since it saves them in FLV format, you will need a player: http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081...

There are converters out there as well to turn them into avi and/or mpeg files but I haven't researched those yet.

[Ava]

8. WinFF is the converter i use

i highly recommend it

[pokerfan]

9. I'm actually more interested in an flv to mp3 converter

but I will check out the MPEG converter. Thanks.

[Ava]

10. it does way more than MPEG

it converts to pretty much every type of video and audio format i can think of

[pokerfan]

11. sweet, I'll check it out

thx

[pokerfan]

12. That it does

I just installed it and tested it on the Bill-O Flips Out — DANCE REMIX that was linked here.

Works great and will even handle batches of files.