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How to Save/Download the YouTube and MetaCafe video files in your local computer.

First, just leave the YouTube or MetaCafe video to play fully. By playing the full video means you are buffering the video file into your computer. The buffered video files will be stored in your computers "Temporary Internet Files" folder. 

After completing (Buffering) the YouTube video files into your computer, you can copy the buffered file from your "Temporary Internet Files" folder to any other drive or folder as you wish to store those files. 

Probably the YouTube files will be store in you computer as FLV format. 

Now, open your "Temporary Internet Files" folder, to open it click Tools>Internet Options from Internet Explores menu. If you are using Internet Explorer-7 or later, click the "Setting" button under the header "Browsing History" from the "General" tab. Now you can find your "Temporary Internet Files" folders path as "Current Location:" you can open the folder by manually typing the location address in "Run" command or you can open the folder just clicking the "View Files". 

The "Temporary Internet Files" folder will open. Now, find the YouTube video file which is in a FLV format. For easiest find, set your folder view type to "Detailed" and locate for the "*.flv" extension files. This the YouTube files actually. Copy it to any other location. 

That's it. You can now play the files using a FLV Player or using your Internet Explorer. 

The above will be works for all version of Windows except Windows Vista. Because, Vista's tight security will not allow you to view the Folder, where the downloaded files stores.  

The above guide will also applies to Mozilla FireFox, Opera, NetScape and more. 

You can download the FLV Players from the following location to play the *.flv files: 

http://arbalu.blogspot.com

http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html

http://www.applian.com/flvplayer/download_flv_player.php

http://www.download.com/Riva-FLV-Player/3000-13632_4-10435953.html

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/flvplayer.html 

Or you can download the FLV Converters from the following locations: 

http://www.soft29.com/dvd_video/video_converter/flv-converter.html

http://www.onlyfreewares.com/Audio-Video/Video-Converters/Free-FLV-to-AVI-Converter.php

http://www.ripzor.com/flvconverter.html 

Note: This guide will help for MetaCafe users too.

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19 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 31, 2008 at 1:58 PM

    You can use a download site like play-offline.com , paste your video link there and you'll be prompted with the link to the flv.

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  2. AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 1:05 AM

    Interesting and useful post, but I still prefer paid tools because they offers lots of additional options except the downloading itself. I like Bytescout Movies Extractor - it's not expensive but really cool.

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  3. GetvideoJune 17, 2009 at 4:30 PM

    You can download youtube video at http://getvideo.comxa.com.
    It supports HD version.

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  4. Rainer PlumerAugust 1, 2009 at 10:32 PM

    hmmm...this doesnt work when file is buffered in mozilla. temporary files show only internet explorers files.
    although you can watch mozillas cache by typing
    "about:cache" to adress bar.

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  5. UnknownSeptember 4, 2009 at 6:41 AM

    Hi and thanks, I'll suggest to my friends using Windows,

    rainer.plumer, I think Firefox store cached files to a directory different than IE, but files MUST be cached in some place on your hard.

    Linux users can do the same if you go to /tmp, the video is named with an Flash prefix and no extension, (no visible extension at least)

    Well, thanks for the info

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  6. AdminSeptember 4, 2009 at 9:58 AM

    Hi Exheon Thanks for your valuable comment.

    FireFox users can type "about:cache" in the address bar and hit enter to get the correct path for the temporary folder.

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  7. VidRipDecember 27, 2009 at 7:52 AM

    Excellent article, however there is an easier way to do it. VidRip.co.uk lets you download a video in SD, HQ, 720p or 1080p HD format in just 1 click.

    Keep writing the awesome articles!

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  8. Rajat GulatiJanuary 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    I had buffered around 5 videos simulateneously in IE7. After the buffering was done for all 5, I went to the Temp Internet Files folder however I could find only 1 .flv file (for the latest buffered video)... where can I find the rest..??

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  9. Rios McKayJuly 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM

    i use mac computer.
    do you have any suggestion?

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    1. UnknownSeptember 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM

      I always save youtube videos into DVD discs.
      and it is easy to save youtube video to DVD.

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  10. AnonymousSeptember 18, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    Thanks for sharing! Very useful! I personally use Keepvid and Wantyoutube to download videos!

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  11. AnonymousOctober 26, 2011 at 7:19 PM

    outdated method, not with mozilla v11.

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  12. AnonymousOctober 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    sori, meant firefox v7.01 not mozilla v11

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  13. video from youtube flv to mov macAugust 25, 2012 at 9:05 AM

    Good job. personally, i use videodownloadhelper plugin to download youtube flv videos on Firefox explorer.

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  14. DuplicatorFebruary 14, 2013 at 11:18 AM

    You have taught us top save download YouTube videos. Thanks for the useful information

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  17. abettersoftAugust 19, 2013 at 12:43 PM

    you guides seems great, however, there are also many great free youtube download software. such as wondershare youtube download can download youtube videos and convert youtube flv to mov for mac os users.

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