You-tube will not allow you to directly download video files. Many people ask me this question ‘How to download you-tube videos’.

It’s very simple trick many people already know this,but for those who are still searching solution for downloading you-tube or other online videos here is simple trick.

There are many third party tools available online for downloading videos. But I am explaining most simplest and fast way to download. FireFox my favorite browser give us wonderful plugin ‘Download Helper‘ for downloading videos.

Flash player must be installed in Mozilla firefox for playing videos. Once flash player and download helper plug-in is installed you can save videos.

As displayed in this image you will get quick download option for video you are playing ,even you can convert and download video..

Video files will be in flv format so either you convert them to other format or you need flv player or VLC player for playing those videos.

VLC media player is open source free to download application.

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