YouTube, Google Video Download and DivX Conversion Guide

The popularity of YouTube, Google Video and other "Flash" based video sites now means there are literally millions of great video clips viewable on the net. However, downloading these videos or watching them offline either requires special players and codecs, that's if you manage to download them in the first place.
This guide will show you how to download the video from sites like YouTube and Google Video, how to playback these file and if you want to, convert them to the more universal AVI/DivX format - all using freeware tools!
Software you'll need:

• Mozilla FireFox
• Media Player Classic
• ffdshow
• Dr. DivX

Step 1: Downloading the video
You need to first download and install the Mozilla FireFox browser. Once it is installed, start FireFox and within it, go to this address: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390. Scroll down the page and find the "Install Now" link and click on it.

You will need to restart FireFox now to enable the plugin.
Now go to the YouTube/Google Video page that contains the video (in FireFox, of course). On the bottom right of the FireFox browser, you should now see an icon for the VideoDownloader plugin - double click on this icon and another window opens with the video download link.