The best way of downloading videos from Youtube is here. You
can download all the flash embedded videos from almost any site with a click of
a button. Yea, the flash videos are literally a click away.

After installing IDM, a "Download This Video" button pops up
whenever you are watching a video anywhere in cyberspace (shown in the picture
below). Just click on the button to start downloading clips. It's as simple as
that; you do not have to separately launch Internet Download Manager. What's
more, you can choose to download a clip at any point during the video, and the
scene will be captured from the start. The download will proceed in the
background even if you pause or stop watching. And you can download more than
one video at the same time.

You can also use context menu in Firefox or IE based browsers
to download FLV videos from popular sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, Google Video,
etc. When your browser starts playing a video file, IDM grabs its download link.
If you like the video, and you would like to save it on your computer, you
should open IE context menu by right clicking on the web page that plays the
video, and select "Download FLV video content with IDM" menu
item. The context menu appears when you right click on a web page (but not on an
flv player) in your browser or by using context menu key on the keyboard.
If you don't have this menu item in Firefox or other Mozilla
based browsers, you will need to reinstall idmmzcc.xpi extension. Pick
"File->Open File..." menu item in the main menu of your browser and open
idmmzcc.xpi file from IDM root folder ("C:\Program Files\Internet Download
Manager\" by default).
Internet Explorer (right click page context menu) | Mozilla based (Firefox) (right click page context menu) |
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IDM will start downloading the video and show its standard
download dialog. If the server has not specified the file name explicitly, IDM
will name the file based on the web page title. You can also edit the filename,
add a description, and change its path or category on this dialog.

It's also possible to add FLV extension to IDM list of
downloadable file types in IDM Options -> "File Types" tab to take over the
download of all FLV videos. In this case videos won't be played in your browser.
The videos will be downloaded by IDM, saved to your local disk, and can be
played if you have an FLV player.

As we stated you can download videos from YouTube,
Tv-links.co.uk, MetaCafe.com, etc.. almost any website. Following are the sites
Internet Download Manager is known to work with: Youtube, MySpaceTV, Google
Videos, video.xanga.com, www.break.com, www.dailymotion.com, www.esnips.com, and
many others
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