Youtube utilities

List 1

“Google has a solid amount of cash in its pockets, but with all the recent lawsuits against YouTube one has to wonder if it’s time to salvage whatever videos you like from the service and save them somewhere where evil attorneys won’t look – your hard drive.

Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It’s hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we’ve chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we’ve found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:”

http://mashable.com/2007/05/05/download-youtube-video/

List 2

“This is a collection of free you tube software which includes youtube to ipod and iphone converter. Online Youtube Downloader and Online Converter to formats like flv and others. Players required to view downloaded you tube videos and youtube firefox extensions to download youtube(you tube) videos. There are links to couple of posts who wrote about it and some are directly linked to the software. You wont need anything more than this to have fun with you tube videos.”

http://www.technospot.net/blogs/10-must-have-you-tube-utilities/