Watching a video from the net is really fun because we don't have to buy/rent a video, and the best thing is, we can view the video almost instantly although the video quality not very good. How about if we want to save the video into a files so that we can view it later. Below is the most easy step to download youtube video into our hard drive.

Step 1: Download real player using google pack

There are 2 ways to download real player

1. Direct download from real player web site
2. Get from google pack - let's google handle all the hassle

It is highly recommended that you are using google pack to get this player because it is really easy to select which software we need to download. Go to any search engine and type "google pack" and you will find a website which is look like below.

Just select real a player software or you also have an option to download any other software such as skype, google earth and picasa. After click on "download now" button, you will be shown the download progress as image below.

Step 2: Realplayer Configuration

After download is complete, we need to configure real player to enable us to download video file from youtube. Open real player from windows start menu and follow the step as shown below.

Select tools and preference.

Select your prefer configuration; in this guide we select to use "show button only on mouse-over".

Step 3: Download video from youtube

After complete the configuration part, please restart the browser so that it can associate with youtube. Go to youtube website and select the video you want to download. After the video is loaded in your browser, hover to the video screen until you can see "Download This Video" button as per image below.

Click on download and you will be given another option such as "download & recording preference". After you click "Download This Video" you will have download progress form to show download status.

You can select wheter to cancel or pause the task.

Conclusion

It's pretty easy to download a video from youtube and this tool really necessary if you want to make a video collection from youtube. We will show you how to compress or convert this video into other format on the next article. The main purpose to compress/convert video is to make it smaller and viewable on the other device such as iPhone and mobile phone.