Grease monkey Scripts:

This works only in Firefox as Greasemonkey is this addon is supported by Firefox only. You have to install some scripts to download the youtube videos. Steps to download using grease monkey,


1. You should use a Firefox browser, if you don't have click here to download the latest version.

2. Install the Grease monkey addon from here.

3. After this install one of the following scripts

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2085
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3982
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6204
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7809
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8177
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7880

4. After doing all this refresh the youutbe or google video page to see an icon "save this file"or "download this file " or "get this video ",...

5. Click on it to save the file with a file name.

Add .flv to the file name, like if abc is file name, rename the downloaded file as abc.flv

Now use a flv player to view it or download a flv converter like (Riva FLV Encoder Total Video Converter ) into mpeg or avi or wmv format and watch it with normal video player like vlc or windows media player.

Firefox addons: Here a few addons of Firefox that will directly download the youtube or Google videos

1. Unplug
2. Get video
3. Fast video download
4. Video Downloader
5. Video Download

Software to download Youtube or Google videos :

1. http://www.zillatube.com/
2. http://www.amazebrowser.com/flvdownload/
3. Youtube Accelerator

Note 1 : Of all the techniques described above, using grease monkey is the mosty effeciient one and also the most reliable one.

Note 2 : The same technique is applicable to Google videos too but the scripts and ddons and softwares my be different.