Download and Convert YouTube Videos

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Well, it shouldn’t have happened, but it did. I created a video and then I went to look for the copy I saved on my hard drive and it seemed that I deleted it. How could this be? I’m a computer nerd, that shouldn’t happen to me. So, I thought, I uploaded it to YouTube, surely there is a way to get it off of there. I found it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.
Here’s what I had to do:
1. Go to Videodl.org and copy and paste the YouTube video URL into Videodl.org site
2. Download the .flv file
3. Download Riva FLV Encoder.
4. Convert the .flv video to .avi, here are good instructions.
The funny part of this story is after about 45 minutes I got the video to where I could view it again and I saved it to the proper folder this time on my desktop compuer. Then I booted up my laptop and right there on the desktop was the long lost video I had been working so hard to recover!
