Unable to see downloaded YouTube videos(only hear sound and no video), you can get solution here

All we know that we can download online videos from YouTube and other similar sites. Generally we can download those videos to our computer in FLV format. Flvplayer is needed to play FLV files. FlvPlayers will play those files smoothly without any problems.

There are applications that will download videos from YouTube and save them as Avi or Mpeg files to your computer. We can use windows media player to play avi, mpeg files. But media player will play mpeg files smoothly. But we can not play avi files smoothly. When we try to play the downloaded avi file, we here audio only and can not see the video. The reason is missing of vedio codec software in our computer. We can rectify the problem using FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder. It is freeware. Just install this codec, then you will see the video also.

FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder. You can download it from the following site.

http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDShow_download.htm

Now let us know the different ways to download videos from YouTube and other similar sites.

1. YouTube Downloader is a free application that will download videos from YouTube and save them as Avi or Mpeg files to your computer. It is very easy to use. Install the program. Then Simply paste the URL of a YouTube video into the program, now click Start, then the AVI or MPEG file will be downloaded into the folder specified by you in Save To box. Just play it with windows media player classic. If you save the video as Avi, then you have to install FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder as explained above for getting the video.

http://downloadcenter24.com/video-and-dvd/youtube-downloader.html

2. Video DL is a application that allows you to download online video into your computer. It supports YouTube, Google Video, and Break.com videos. Simply copy the link of the page with video and paste it into the textbox. Now click Get It and follow the instruction. After you have saved the files into your harddrive, rename the file with .flv extension so that FLV Player will recognize it. You need FLV Player to play it.

http://www.videodl.org/

3. You can download online videos from any site into your computer from the following site. Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the box provided. Then click download. You need FLV Player to play it.

http://keepvid.com/

4. You can download online videos from the following site. Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the box provided. Then click Get It. You need FLV Player to play it.

http://www.kissyoutube.com/

5. Desktop YouTube is a freeware software that allows you to download videos from YouTube.com right from your desktop. paste the YouTube URL and this software will download the video for you. The downloaded video can be played using any FLV player. Also .NET Framework 2.0 is required for this software to work.

http://www.abhisoft.net/downloads.htm

6. Fidyo is both a FLV record program and a FLV player. You can download FLV files with this program and you can watch it also. Before installing FIDYO, first you have to install microsoft.net framework 2.0.

At present you can download and watch FLV files from youtube.com, video.google.com, metacafe.com, break.com, dailymotion.com and vids.myspace.com

http://www.fidyo.com/download.aspx?dil=en-US