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I’ve talked before about different ways you can download YouTube videos. This week, Matthew is sharing his favorite browser addon – Download YouTube Videos as MP4. This video downloader which works in virtually any browser. It allows you to download the content in several different formats, as well!

The installation is extremely simple. Once finished, you’ll see a new Download button on every video you watch. Click that button and choose which resolution you wish your content to download in. As you can see, the video is just as high quality as it was when you watched it on the site.

Thanks, Matt, for sharing yet another way for us to consume our favorite content.

How to Download YouTube Videos With Any Browser

Well. Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz sure wasn’t kidding when she announced in her layoff letter that the company is changing much of their focus. I received an email today “politely” informing me that the struggling online service is going to nix their video content – ALL of their video content. They’re kindly offering me a tool to use to download and save my videos. Thankfully, I’ve also uploaded this same content to much more reliable and stable sites. I don’t have to worry about it. That’s not true for everyone, though.

In the succinct email, it was stated that Yahoo! “will be removing all general user-generated content upload capability and user-uploaded video from Yahoo! Video. As a result, your videos, user profiles, ratings, favorites, and playlists will no longer be available after March 14, 2011. User video content from Yahoo! Video that remains embedded on third party sites will no longer be playable after March 14, 2011.”

Some users have a lot of content on that network… and nowhere else. Sure, they can download their videos and save them. Can they download their ratings, comments and profiles? Of course they cannot. Those things are simply going to be gone.

The good news is that you can take the time to upload that same content to Flickr. The popular photo site now allows video uploads, along with your pictures. However, you can only upload clips of 90 seconds or less, they have to be content you created yourself, and they have to meet some pretty strict requirements as far as “appropriate” levels go. Think of these as “long photos.”

What are your thoughts? Do you even use Yahoo! at all these days? Will you bother to download any videos you may have on their sites?

Yahoo! Removing Video Content

A couple of days ago, we started a new kind of content workflow. Initially, we were using YouTube as the video transcoding pass-through. That is to say, we were uploading a video to YouTube from a mobile device (using ShoZu), downloading that video as an FLV, then re-encoding the Flash video as an MP4 file to upload to Blip.TV (for subsequent distribution). We were using Vixy.net and VideoDownloader.net to download YouTube videos – but moving forward, it seems I may be more happy with a free Windows program: YouTube Downloader. It’ll download the YouTube video, then prompt you to re-encode the FLV as MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. Slick!

And if you’d like to give ‘er a shot, try it with any one of the videos we produced this afternoon:

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