How to Download Youtube and Other Online Videos using Real Player?


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Long back I made a post on “How to download video, not just from Youtube?” Only recently I came to know that Real Player does it all! With the new Real Player 11, you can download internet videos with one click. You can also put different videos that you have downloaded into different playlists. And with the premium Real Player Plus package you can also burn all these downloaded files in to CD or DVD. So far as of I know, Real Player is the easiest way to save and download videos from the internet.

How to use real player to download online videos?

First, you should have the real player 11 installed and make sure you have Download This Video option enabled. Now, when you watch any online videos and if you move the mouse over the video, you will see a button over the video Download This Video. Click the button and it saves the video in your download library. You can view all downloads from Downloads & Recordings under My Library. Also you can view the source URL of all the downloaded videos.

Real Player - Download This Video

This should work in the following websites in IE, Firefox and others…
Youtube, MetaCafe, MSN Videos, Revver, iFilm, PutFile, DailyMotion, Esnips, BrightCove, CinemaTube.Net and most other online videos.

If you are downloading videos online in .flv format, you may want to convert it to .wmv, .avi or any other formats. Read more about this in “How to convert .FLV (Flash) to .WMV, .AVI or any other format?


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    22 Responses to “How to Download Youtube and Other Online Videos using Real Player?”


    1. 1 Ashfame

      This is the easiest way of downloading video from net. BTW in which format Real Player 11 downloads it?

    2. 2 Jeremy

      Great…..

      alternatively, for even quicker download video speed, i recommend “Zillatube” (from zillatube.com)

      It works.

    3. 3 Mr.Byte

      @Ashfame, As the video is store in .flv format in youtube, the output file that you get is also in .flv format…

    4. 4 Haris

      That’s cool! I think, Real Player is the first multimedia player that allows video downloading from YouTube (and similar places). Thanks for the news.

    5. 5 Madhur Kapoor

      This is the only great feature of Real player so far . Works on any site .

    6. 6 Alex

      Great–I’ll try this trick on woozyfly.com for when my internet rebels.

    7. 7 little wanwan

      i recently hav dowmload real 11, but my “download this video” not appear on right top of the video. i hav enable the option on download this video also i hav turn off the firewall. so pleeeeeeeeease help me!!

    8. 8 Mr.Byte

      @little wanwan, Maybe its not loading up in the startup…You have mentioned that you have enabled the option for downloading…But Check if you have enabled in Tools -> Preference -> Category -> Download and Recording -> Enable Web Download and Recording…Also see if you can right click the video to see if you can download…Hope this helps

    9. 9 sarita

      even am not getting download option though i hav downloaded latest version of real player n checked the dwnload option..
      i hv xp sp2 installed.. as mentioned earlier where is this tools>preference option as i ddint find preference option in my tools … plzz reply

    10. 10 rohit

      i have downloading option enabled and i am getting the download this video option but iam not being able to download any video from any site.so please tell me if a solution is there.i aam having real player 11 gold installed.

    11. 11 Attilio

      Hello,
      I have tried different settings when trying to convert from .flv to .wmv (I tried WMV 3); I still get a green icon; and when I play the video there is no sound; and the back ground is all green too!
      I set it for transcode audio-MP3, 192 Kb; I am using WIN XP.
      Any other info that you would you need?
      Thanks for your reply!

    12. 12 kid

      is there anything like it for mac users, prefferably osx 10.3.9, thanks

    13. 13 Chuck

      I have Realplayer 11. I was able to download videos fine and tonight suddently the “download this video” pop up doesn’t appear when I’m watching a video. I have reinstalled real and IE, and restarted my computer…still nothing. Any ideas why it just suddenly quit working?

    14. 14 mona alphonze

      itz so vy good to the teens to hear it an gooa base thank u so much

    15. 15 dark

      i have the same problem with chuk
      anyone to help please….!!

    16. 16 Boobie

      i have installed real player V11 but the little pop up doesnt come up. Does this only work on vista

    17. 17 sharan

      amit can u help me with the cascading links that results in real player i mean youtube downloadable real player

      hi amit

      very good to be in this forum,also very nice of u,still nice if you can send me a copy of youtube downloadable real player,sharing with others is a great human quality right and u are gifted with one

    18. 18 Mr.Byte

      @sharan, I guess you got my name wrong :) I am Joel and I go by the name Mr.Byte! Anyway back to your question, you can download Real Player 11 for free through this link.

    19. 19 Blah

      Um, I enabled the option for downloading but the button still won’t show up. Help?

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