How To Download YouTube Videos Directly In MP4

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“Download right from YouTube. No program or external site needed. In highest mp4 quality (ready for iPod).

This short tutorial shows how you can download MP4 videos right from YouTube.
Some websites or programs download the .FLV video and then you have to convert it into a proper format.
Now it’s much easyer and the quality is BETTER!

Here are detailed instructions and the code used (Javascript button)

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append “&fmt=18″:

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=ID&t=SIGNATURE&fmt=18

ID is the video’s identification value, SIGNATURE is a value that prevents you from downloading the file just by knowing the ID. You could create this URL by looking at the source code of a YouTube page, but it’s much easier to automatically generate it.”

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