I downloaded and installed it with no problems, but when I used it to download a youtube video it says that it's a trial version and can only record 75% of the video or something. Help?

Real Player lets you download YT clips. I've been downloading YT videos and clips on other sites with RealPlayer for a couple of years. This program is a complete waste of time.

Wouldn't install om my Vista 64. Kept coming up with some .ocx error. :-((

Fubar: P1. That's the thing though, they are terms in use. Regardless of your thoughts of such irrelevance, other's may not agree. They fit what I was dealing with so I used them here.

P2: Despite the name, the converter instructs you to "drag and drop" "your flash videos" (or files, can't remember exactly) into the screen; alluding to the ability to handle flash of all sorts. So; I took some flash files I had already; some from YT, some from some other sites. They didn't work.

Personally I use the Real download tool and convert most of my flash downloads with UVC; and the troubled ones with VLC, or DVDFlick. Works like a charm.

For those that shot at me about it; I maintain that no program should ignore SYSTEM settings. FireFox is my default browser. The registration/purchase popup page should have loaded in FireFox. To override that and load IE on its own is not only poor judgement, it's a violation of assumed trust between the user and vendor. That alone gets a score of 0 from me no matter how good or bad a program is.

This is awesome…I was just trying to download a youtube video to mp3 with an online converter but it failed to work. This is perfect and saved me! Thank you giveawayoftheday!!!

Youtube Converter - http://youtube-video-converter.com
Vixy - http://www.vixy.net
Mac YouTube Downloader - http://youtube-downloader-mac.com

#93, lostinlodos, nice try. Most forums are indexed by Google, so their entries will show up in Google search results. You're trying to promote your own personal terms. I remember some guy on AVS Forum who kept trying to promote his own ridiculous and irrelevant definitions for PVR and DVR.

I didn't install YouTubeGet, I don't need its abilities, and if I did, there are better tools (and hopefully without such screwed-up installations). In the first place, YouTubeGet is only designed to download YouTube videos, so your remarks about other than YouTube videos are irrelevant. If you follow the link at the top of this page to the product's website, you'll note that its very first feature is that it will auto resume broken downloads. It's intentionally designed to automatically download and convert complete videos. As for your remarks about rebuffering, YouTubeGet isn't a streaming video player, but a downloader and converter. As for whether YouTubeGet actually does what it says, that's another matter. I stand by everything I said in comment #25.

I am already a fan of Youtubeget after it was given away back in May of 08. I had tried a number of similar freeware apps that varied from behaving so annoyingly like malware that I uninstalled them to other freeware apps that were tolerable, but Youtubeget ended up being the easiest, least complicated one of all for downloading and converting flash videos as one smooth operation. I was glad to see the updated version of Youtubeget offered again today, because I didn't have this particular pc running back when it was offered the first time, and it was one of the programs I really wanted to be able to use again.
Thanks GAOTD & Youtubeget!

for mozilla firefox user there is one plug-in 'download helper' that can be used to download videos, music and others downloadables from various sites including you-tube. but it doesnt come with a converter. i use quick media converter to convert those files if i want. free.

Tried to download something three times as .3gp but, after what seemed like an age, it produces a file of 0 bytes that QuickTime refuses to play. I'll stick with the free download services thanks!

Nobody ever did tell us how they registered the converter. I'll check back again tomorrow, in case.
To those who can't find where the downloaded files went- look in the folder for this program, wherever you told it to install to. Next time, when you go to download, look at the dialog box u get just before it saves it for you-it lets you choose where to save the files to.

To those who only posted a link to another product & didn't bother to try this 1 or give it any kind of evaluation- that's very rude, & not what this site is for. MOST of us value the developers of programs they offer us here. Usually anyway. Make a small effort, at least, ok? A few free alternatives is nice, but the above amount was just childish & rude. ( & We all know how to use Google.)
As always, thanks GOTD, & product developer! :)

where are the downloaded videos?, I can't find the videos!

#69

Any program install *should* check for the presence of already installed common files it needs, & skip installing anything already there that’s either newer or the same version. This is what used to be called Microsoft DLL hell. Now they've fixed that problem, but they have yet to the the ActiveX controls. For whatever reasons many VB apps don’t, & YouTubeGet is one of them.

Nope, it's not any VB app, it's the apps that come from this site.

I try out new software on a daily basis and can tell you that the only VB programs that do this are from this site.

Windows doesn't know where to find the files...That's ridiculous. Each program on startup checks it's own directory first then looks in the System32 folder. The apps will then re-register the .dll's or .ocx's in the Windows\system32 folder with no problem at all.

Do you even know the proper name for a .dll or .ocx file?

I track all install programs with a utility called RegShot and I use Systinternals Process Monitor are Process Explorer to find out exactly what's taking place in the registry.

Trust me, I've been editing the registry since 1995. My skills wgot me hired at two very large software companies and now I do Forensic consulting.

Thanks, this is exactly what I have been looking for and it works great on Vista 32 bit. Great conversions also.

I always get nervous about programs that want to install in the root diretory of C: It sort of says that either the programmer has chosen to ignore a well-known convention (that is, using C:\Program Files) or is clueless. Then I worry about whether the program will work if I tell it to install in the "proper" directory.

All seems to work fine, at least as far as I can tell.

Hi folks,

@ Lostinlodos ... your Post #93 is worth every penny ... BTW A-One it is not a Freeware ... too bad!

Keep Up Good Reviews!

G!:)

Finally more thumbs up than thumbs down!

It's a rare thing to see here ;)

Fubar; I’d be happy to provide links to programs I suggest. Always. What do you need links for?

x32 is a 32-bit processor. Some examples are the Intel Pentium and AMD Duron chips.

x64 is a term used for Intel 64-bit and AMDx32-64 extended processors. Such as the Core 2 and the Athlon 64 and Phenom processors.

IA64 is Intel’s Itanium processor architecture.

Bashing?, I’ve generally been supportive. Today’s software just doesn’t cut it, it can’t do what dozens, if not hundreds, of other free programs can do and the free programs have a better interface.

Flash- are terms, not a spec. But then it’s obvious you’ve never been to a pro consumer site such as cdfreaks, slysoft, digitaldigest, avs, videohelp, et al. where the terms are commonly used.

Flash-d is flash with drm; such as that used on subscription sites, adult sites, and film streaming services.

Flash-m is flash music, a flash container with an audio track and a graphic image, most often PNG.

Flash-cpt are flash component files. That is they are only a single file in the container. That would be an h.263/h.264, mpeg, png, etc file inside.

“So, it can’t convert something which was never downloaded. Gee, I wonder why.”

Better programs can convert everything that was downloaded up to the cutoff point. This simply throws back an error without even loading the file.
DVDFlick at http://www.dvdflick.net
and UltraVideoConverter http://www.aone-media.com/videoconverter.htm
can both convert incomplete files. Why can’t this one?

“…rebuffered files.” WTF are you babbling about?”

Buffering, in terms of streaming video, is the saving of part of a video file to your hard drive before beginning the playing of the file. The intent is to allow a user to watch a video through without interruption; and still begin the file before it was completely downloaded. Unfortunately, sometimes a file will catch up to the download point and have to REBUFFER. In some cases it causes a jolt in the downloaded file. This used to be a common occurrence in streaming AVI and WMV and other files as well, the reason that great tools such as
VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod at http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net
and http://www.virtualdub.org
and NeroVision at http://www.nero.com
UVC, and VLC have added the ability to reindex and convert such files.

Scotsman: It’s three computers not four. Please count first before rampaging about. Try using software and reading about all the available options before stating undeniably false claims as absolutes. People have been watching/using/converting incomplete files since the days of AOL and CompuServe. VLC at http://www.videolan.org
Media Player Classic at http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net
BS Player at http://www.bsplayer.org
And Nero ShowTime a http://www.nero.com
all proudly claim their ability to play such INCOMPLETE and DAMAGED files.

As for connection; I’m on a 12Mbs cable line currently, and prior to my short absence last year, I was using a 54Mbs /40Mbs satellite connection. Dropouts happen on any connection, not just dial-up.

You can do that for free online. http://www.vconversion.com also there are lots of others that I haven't mentioned.

Why use this when you have FREE DownloadHelper plugin for Firefox? Does a heck of a lot more too! Come on now fellow netizens, quit drinking too much kool-aid and get with the program.....

As in comments # 4, 8, and 18 above, I could register the Youtubeget program but not the included converter. I got the "Invalid Registration number" message. I had installed the program into a directory containing other image-editing apps and not the default install location, and sure enough, this prevents successful registration. It's too bad because this looks like a nice program, but I will not change the way I organize the location of apps installed on my computer just to be able to register this one program. I guess that I will just uninstall it.

I use "YouTube Downloader Version 2.1.7".
Software to download and convert YouTube video. http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
Freeware, No Adware. It,s free and it doesn't only download, but it also converts the files from .flv

I have a program just like this one that's always free. "Free Studio Manager" in case you miss this one today or just want to try another program like it.

Works great, downloaded and registered smoothly. Definitely a keeper for me. Thanks, GAOTD.

What a toal waste of time. I thought this might be good because it converts aswell. Well soorry! IT DOES NOT.

Nice try GAOTD, it's not you fault.

If you want to do this sort of theng, get the Google plug-in 'DownloadHelper' it's free, more opptions, faster and even easier to use.

The get one of the million of free converters. I I use the one from NCH call (duh!) Video converer.

Have fun Kids:)

I am leery of any third-party download site such as DWMYouTube. You might as well drop your pants in public. This FREE browser/converter combo, offered by GOTD, works for me and performs as described in the overview. Installation was only hindered by having to change the destination of the program's folder. Registration was faultless. I was directed to the YouTubeGet website only once...which is "industry standard" for ALL developers to tease you for an upgrade. I agree with several of you about #9's (lostinlodos) inane and ignorant comments. If we are to believe that #9 loaded this offering onto four PCs running four different OSs we would be feeding into some of the most outrageous techno-babble ever witnessed on this website. #9...you can't convert a partial stream OR failed download OR rebuff because...THEY ARE NOT COMPLETE FILES. You need an upgrade from your dial-up connection. No comment on your stupid IE drag.

I have another downloader that seems to work great. The last YouTube one I had just wasn't really being that co-operative.

I do have a question though. Just what format do I have to save these files in to be able to pull and burn them to disk. Either I try via my wmp (nero, among several other burning/ video creating programs) and it won't even recognize the files- or a copyright issue comes up (even when they are my own youtubes)

My kids love some of the Christmas light videos, harry potter puppet pals and sch- it would be nice to burn a copy that they can watch while in their room paying or something.

There are so many places you can find these, but so few of them actually work!

Thanks GAOTD!

You can do all these things in Linux for free using youtube-dl and mplayer in just three steps. Kudos to opensource

everything was great, and I went to use it and it wouldn't register, I tried 3 times, before uninstalling it, it kept bringing me to the page to buy the software, but I'm not going to. thumbs down

Absoloutly brilliant, worked fine on XP home SP3, best giveaway for ages, nice one and thanks :)

This is a good giveaway to realise:
Videoget is a great soft. Not this YourtroubleGet.
Experienced some of problems described above and wiped out. Try again developer and thanks GAOTD.

Can these be viewed on a TV?

I prefer SoThink standalone video downloader, it supports pretty much every video site not just youtube. no need to convert videos either windows media player 11 will player flv files just fine once you install K-Lite codec pack free.

Y'all, downloading YouTube Videos is much easier than any of the methods I've seen described here. Create a bookmark or favorite and throw the following piece of code where you'd normally put a url:

javascript:if(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)){document.location.href='http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt='+(isHDAvailable?'22':'18')+'&video_id='+swfArgs['video_id']+'&t='+swfArgs['t']}

Then you can go to any youtube video you want and just click on your bookmark. You'll instantly start downloading, High Quality if available or lower quality when not! On Firefox and Google Chrome it is very convenient to keep this bookmark on the bookmark bar.

heres the website

http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

why bother with this when there is Orbit for free... It integrates in with Firefox & IE and with 2 clicks you have a fast clean video download from virtually an site...

Nuff said

I dont need this program. This program cannot be better than Video Get, which has been offered here before, free. It works perfectly. My current version is: 3.0.2.39. Every time I run Video Get, it does an update. Write this down and remember, next time Video Get is offered, download it. It saves content to various formats, including mp3.

I already have Youtubeget 4.9.6 . I see this is a slightly newer version (4.9.7), so I will download it to update.
Thanks GAOTD.
#58: I prefer a standalone program to online services.

Flash video, while mostly the same technically, can be stored on-line several different ways... what works to save video for one site may or may not on the next. So, if you have a program or method that has worked for you -- or you try one that doesn't work -- that doesn't mean you're all set for every web site you might come across, or that the method or program that didn't work is useless.

It doesn't hurt to have a bunch of methods &/or Flash saving programs in your toolbox, & even if you're perfectly satisfied with whatever you use today, you still might want to check out YouTubeGet -- it might do something better, &/or it may just work next time your regular methods/apps don't.

FWIW... Sometimes all you need to do to access the Flash video is look in your Internet Explorer cache & copy the file -- I've had this work when videocacheview didn't! Sometimes Orbit works, but it can be intrusive. On-line services may/may not work, but a lot of folks are concerned about privacy issues using them. SDP Downloader is another alternative that's worked on problem sites.

For conversion, at the higher quality end for saving in less common sizes & formats, there's AviSynth with/without VirtualDub. Super works, but your audio sync may suffer & it can break other video software you've installed. Format Factory may work well, but its templates are off for North America. Videohelp.com has many alternatives, with reviews. Or you can of course try try/use today's GOTD offer of YouTubeGet, which has satisfied a lot of people.

Any Free Alternatives for us older Windows ME users?
I'm to lazy to go through all of the above links.
(The add-on for Opera doesn't work for me, & FireFox stopped supporting Windows ME - I've still kept the older FireFox, though.)
Thanks for any & all help.
Keep up the great work, gang!

RE: #53:...
YouTubeGet is another VB (VisualBasic) program -- that doesn't mean it's bad, but it does need the VB runtime files installed to run. Ideally any program install *should* check for the presence of already installed, common files it needs, & skip installing anything already there that's either newer or the same version. For whatever reasons many VB apps don't, & YouTubeGet is one of them. The chief problem this *potentially* causes, was I think pointed out by Fubar some time ago: VB runtime & related types of files need to be registered with/in Windows -- when a program install puts them in the program's folder & registers them, once you remove that program folder Windows doesn't know where to find them, & that may break other apps you've got installed.

While someone can manually (re)register existing files as in #53 [can also use regdrop or a context menu add-on], it's IMHO far easier to just download the VB Runtime setup program from Microsoft -- it's small, & in the time it takes to type: "regsvr32" it has already put things back, including latest file versions. As for why include the VB files to begin with, since VB runtime files aren't part of Windows, not everyone has them, & unless you're using floppies, a couple of meg is irrelevant -- have you checked the size of Vista's Windows folder, or even XP?
;?P

Nice software!
Thanks a lot.

Did anyone else get a trojan warning when extracting? VIPRE reports this.

Running Vista Home edition on a off the shelf eMachine. Downloaded and registered fine. Snagged two 3 minute videos from YouTube with conversion to .AVI no problem. Was able to download to the folder I wanted and name the video to an easily recognizable name so I can find it again...

Suits my needs which are really minimalistic. I'm not super demanding on quality of vids besides most of the stuff on YouTube is amateur videos anyway. I like the cars sliding on snow to show you where my mentality is.

I'd say definitely a keeper for those that just want to save a clip here or there. Don't know about the $30 price tag though. Saving YouTube clips is not THAT important to me especially when there are other methods available.

WHERE THE HELL DOES IT SAVE STUFF BY DEFAULT ???????????????
I have been trying for ages to find where this bloody prog has saved the stuff I selected to be downloaded and changed to avi - it opened the Windows\system32 folder (Why FGS ?????????) but they are not there. Done a search - nowhere to be found (searched using the names I said to be saved as - got nowhere)
Anyone help ?

Well, the Flash Player error message returns in the program's browser (but works fine in the Firefox browser).
Converted a small YouTuube file to AVI and MP4 - neither will play. One has audio, no video; the other does nothing. And yes, I have the required codecs. Others play fine so long as they haven't been touched by this program.
Also, the saved window is VERY small (128x96) and is grayed out so it can't be changed. The original YouTube videos are much larger.
Pretty screwed up program. Too bad - it would be good if it worked at all.

this works awesome. it doesn't have the same old download youtube videos to flv and then u need to find something else to convet it. it's faster then most. and it works perfect.

Thanks giveaway

If the url has the "&feature=related" added, it will not work. You must first remove this from the URL, then it works. The crazy Flash Player error I got (above)is completely imaginary.

Terrible!
Very first try, it downloads nothing. When I reboot the program it says the Flash Player is obsolete, so I uninstalled what I thought was the newest Flash Player (Firefox 3), and reinstalled from the Adobe site. Now my browser says the one I just installed is old and will not work.
Forget this buggy program.

In a way this software is outdated. Since youtube now offers "HD" video, which is higher quality video in .mp4 format.

I recommand using (which is free)

http://www.everymp4.com/

paste the youtube there and download the .mp4. There has been many video converter before. If you still have those installed, use them to convert the .mp4 to whatever file you'd like.

otherwise free alternative works too.