A great way to download or backup YouTube videos has never been easier. Using free software on the net you can easily backup the videos.

Some things to keep in mind when downloading YouTube videos is YouTube saves their videos as FLV files. FLV files are not inherently playable on your PC or portable player (ipod, zune, psp). In order to view an FLV you must have a Player or Convert the FLV to a playable format.

In this Video I'll show you the first step in downloading the video to your PC in the FLV format.