Have you ever watched a video on YouTube and wished that you can save the file for your collection? It turns out that a lot of YouTube lovers would love for that save feature, unfortunately, YouTube does not provide such functionality. But do not be despair, there is a free service in town provided by YouTubia.com (word play between YouTube and Utopia) to do just that.



YouTubia.com is a free, full-featured YouTube search engine. Features including search by keyword tags or author names. YouTubia display full content of the search result from the video's title and description to the complete list of associated tags, average rating of the video and etc. Most importantly, YouTubia provides a link for you to click and save a YouTube right to your computer. The saved YouTube file would be in the format of Flash Video (FLV) type. And did I mention YouTubia is free of charge.

Flash Video file is viewable on most operating systems, via the widely-available Macromedia Flash Player and web browser plug-in, or one of several third-party programs such as Media Player Classic (with the ffdshow codec installed), MPlayer, or VLC media player. VLC media player is by far the best option and it is freeware.