Youtube Grabber - Grab video and audio stream from youtube to PC

This tutorial is to show you a step-by-step demonstration of grabbing videos from YouTube and Google Video, etc.

First of all, we have to make it clear that the YouTube videos and Google videos communicating online are of the Flash Video file, or FLV file format.

What is FLV?

Flash Video is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV.
FLV and F4V are the de facto standard for web video today; 80% of online videos are viewed worldwide using Adobe Flash® technology.

Launch Flv Grabber

In order to grab video and audio from Youtube with Flv Grabber, you must have Flv Grabber installed. Once Flv Grabber is installed, launch the grabber program.

Step-by-step: How to grab youtube video

1.Run Flv Grabber

2.visit youtube.com, copy the video's link
(like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWA4hW5QpQ&feature=topvideos)

3.Click the mouse right-button on the FlvGrabber window, select the "Enter the grabbed link(URL)" menu.

4.Paste the copied video's URL to editbox, click the <OK> button

5.Flv Grabber start to grab youtube video stream.

Updated: Nov 3, 2010