Saavedro is the main antagonist of Myst III: Exile. The main story of the game revolves around him. He was portrayed by character actor Brad Dourif.
The character of Saavedro is a native of the of Narayan. As explained in the game, Atrus had written Narayan to teach his sons Sirrus and Achenar the final lesson, that Balanced Systems Stimulate Civilizations. Atrus's sons went to Narayan as part of their training and lived with Saavedro, his wife Tamra (pronounced "Tam-a-ray"), and their two daughters. After their lessons were complete, Sirrus and Achenar left with their father, only to return years later. When Sirrus and Achenar returned, they convinced Saavedro and many other Narayani to abandon their old customs. This had a disastrous effect on the Age: several of the huge Lattice Trees were destroyed, and the Narayani nearly died out. Enraged, Saavedro followed Sirrus and Achenar to the Age of , only to be beaten, tied up, and marooned there for 20 years. Saavedro eventually learned how to access the other Lesson Ages, but found he could not return to Narayan: his linking point was blocked from his village behind a forcefield, and he believed his world destroyed and his wife and daughters killed. The years of solitude made Saavedro gradually slip into insanity, believing that Atrus had sanctioned his sons' misdeeds, and not knowing that Sirrus and Achenar had been imprisoned by Atrus after they tried to kill him.
When Atrus visited J'nanin again, Saavedro saw his chance for revenge. He prepared an elaborate trap for Atrus, and captured the Linking Book of Releeshahn, intending to lure Atrus to J'nanin and the Lesson Ages, perhaps to somehow fix Narayan as he said, or perhaps merely to make Atrus pay for Sirrus and Achenar's crimes. However, the Stranger (the player, in this case) followed Saavedro to J'nanin, and Atrus could not follow because the linking book to J'nanin was damaged during the theft.
In the game, the player must travel through the game's many ages and eventually to Narayan and reveal to Saavedro that Narayan is still alive. At first, Saavedro is overjoyed, but when he realizes that he cannot approach it by himself, due to the ice shields protecting it, Saavedro tells the player if he helps him, he will return Releeshahn. In one of the bad endings to the game, if the player does what Saavedro says right away, he will double-cross the player. The player must instead trap Saavedro in between the two shields. Saavedro, knowing he's trapped, gives Releeshahn to the player and begs him/her not to leave him like this.
The best ending of the game is to release the shield to the gondola to Narayan after obtaining Releeshahn. An extremely grateful Saavedro climbs on the gondola and, raising his hand in farewell to the player, makes his way back to his people. It is believed that Saavedro found his wife and daughters again. Atrus and Catherine are overjoyed to see Releeshahn returned unharmed, and Atrus also comments while writing in his journal how is also happy to know that Narayan is also safe and that "old wrongs had finally been righted."
An alternate ending can be attained, in which Saavedro is left trapped between the force fields, never to be able to determine if his family was still alive. If this ending is chosen, Atrus remarks that he wasn't sure he would have left the man trapped like that, and it is implied that Saavedro later commits suicide. Some fans consider this, too, to be a bad ending, though it does finish the game correctly.
Saavedro and the Narayani people are alluded to briefly in Myst IV: Revelation twice - Achenar mentions Saavedro and the Narayani way of life - specifically, the difficulty of their "weaving" - in one of his journals, and the sequence from the beginning of Myst III where Saavedro steals the book of Releeshahn is seen in a memory that Yeesha's amulet shows. Beyond this, however, Saavedro is only seen in Myst III: Exile.
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The character of Saavedro is a native of the of Narayan. As explained in the game, Atrus had written Narayan to teach his sons Sirrus and Achenar the final lesson, that Balanced Systems Stimulate Civilizations. Atrus's sons went to Narayan as part of their training and lived with Saavedro, his wife Tamra (pronounced "Tam-a-ray"), and their two daughters. After their lessons were complete, Sirrus and Achenar left with their father, only to return years later. When Sirrus and Achenar returned, they convinced Saavedro and many other Narayani to abandon their old customs. This had a disastrous effect on the Age: several of the huge Lattice Trees were destroyed, and the Narayani nearly died out. Enraged, Saavedro followed Sirrus and Achenar to the Age of , only to be beaten, tied up, and marooned there for 20 years. Saavedro eventually learned how to access the other Lesson Ages, but found he could not return to Narayan: his linking point was blocked from his village behind a forcefield, and he believed his world destroyed and his wife and daughters killed. The years of solitude made Saavedro gradually slip into insanity, believing that Atrus had sanctioned his sons' misdeeds, and not knowing that Sirrus and Achenar had been imprisoned by Atrus after they tried to kill him.
When Atrus visited J'nanin again, Saavedro saw his chance for revenge. He prepared an elaborate trap for Atrus, and captured the Linking Book of Releeshahn, intending to lure Atrus to J'nanin and the Lesson Ages, perhaps to somehow fix Narayan as he said, or perhaps merely to make Atrus pay for Sirrus and Achenar's crimes. However, the Stranger (the player, in this case) followed Saavedro to J'nanin, and Atrus could not follow because the linking book to J'nanin was damaged during the theft.
In the game, the player must travel through the game's many ages and eventually to Narayan and reveal to Saavedro that Narayan is still alive. At first, Saavedro is overjoyed, but when he realizes that he cannot approach it by himself, due to the ice shields protecting it, Saavedro tells the player if he helps him, he will return Releeshahn. In one of the bad endings to the game, if the player does what Saavedro says right away, he will double-cross the player. The player must instead trap Saavedro in between the two shields. Saavedro, knowing he's trapped, gives Releeshahn to the player and begs him/her not to leave him like this.
The best ending of the game is to release the shield to the gondola to Narayan after obtaining Releeshahn. An extremely grateful Saavedro climbs on the gondola and, raising his hand in farewell to the player, makes his way back to his people. It is believed that Saavedro found his wife and daughters again. Atrus and Catherine are overjoyed to see Releeshahn returned unharmed, and Atrus also comments while writing in his journal how is also happy to know that Narayan is also safe and that "old wrongs had finally been righted."
An alternate ending can be attained, in which Saavedro is left trapped between the force fields, never to be able to determine if his family was still alive. If this ending is chosen, Atrus remarks that he wasn't sure he would have left the man trapped like that, and it is implied that Saavedro later commits suicide. Some fans consider this, too, to be a bad ending, though it does finish the game correctly.
Saavedro and the Narayani people are alluded to briefly in Myst IV: Revelation twice - Achenar mentions Saavedro and the Narayani way of life - specifically, the difficulty of their "weaving" - in one of his journals, and the sequence from the beginning of Myst III where Saavedro steals the book of Releeshahn is seen in a memory that Yeesha's amulet shows. Beyond this, however, Saavedro is only seen in Myst III: Exile.
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Paki shop is a British informal and usually offensive term for a newsagent, convenience store, or similar shop owned by, or run by a person or people of South Asian birth or descent.
Origin
The term Paki was originally a shortening of Pakistani, but has spread to mean a person of any south Asian nation including India and Bangladesh - and to a lesser extent the term can sometimes include a person from a Middle Eastern nation. Thus "Paki Shop" can refer to a shop owned by someone of any south Asian or even Middle Eastern nation, by birth or decent, not just of Pakistan.
There is a stereotype that south Asian people in Britain own or run many small independent or franchise shops in urban and suburban areas. The term "Paki Shop" would usually refer to a local shop that is primarily a newsagent or convenience store, such a shop is also frequently a confectionery/sweet shop, tobacconists, stationer, and general store/corner shop, and sometimes an off license or a small post office, as well as a newsagent. This stereotype appears not to be restricted to the UK alone, in the American comedy The Simpsons, the Indian character Apu runs a shop in the form of his Kwik-E-Mart.
Sometimes the term is used to describe any newsagent/confectionery shop regardless of the shopkeepers ethnicity, even if they are white British.
Expected services
Generally products and services expected to be available in such a newsagent are: newspapers, magazines, greeting cards, cigarettes and other smoking related products, sweets/candy, crisps and other snacks, soft drinks, stamps, basic stationery, bus passes and travelcards for the area's public transport such as Transport for London, lottery and scratch cards, mobile phone top up and other facilities for the paying of bills such as gas and electric. Most of these shops in the UK open early, many open at 6am and some employ one or more "paperboys", that would normally deliver newspapers by bicycle early in the morning before school.
Convenience stores are generally expected to open later than most shops, and some especially in the US to be open 24 hours a day, they sell most things available in a supermarket although have a smaller amount of choice.
Origin
The term Paki was originally a shortening of Pakistani, but has spread to mean a person of any south Asian nation including India and Bangladesh - and to a lesser extent the term can sometimes include a person from a Middle Eastern nation. Thus "Paki Shop" can refer to a shop owned by someone of any south Asian or even Middle Eastern nation, by birth or decent, not just of Pakistan.
There is a stereotype that south Asian people in Britain own or run many small independent or franchise shops in urban and suburban areas. The term "Paki Shop" would usually refer to a local shop that is primarily a newsagent or convenience store, such a shop is also frequently a confectionery/sweet shop, tobacconists, stationer, and general store/corner shop, and sometimes an off license or a small post office, as well as a newsagent. This stereotype appears not to be restricted to the UK alone, in the American comedy The Simpsons, the Indian character Apu runs a shop in the form of his Kwik-E-Mart.
Sometimes the term is used to describe any newsagent/confectionery shop regardless of the shopkeepers ethnicity, even if they are white British.
Expected services
Generally products and services expected to be available in such a newsagent are: newspapers, magazines, greeting cards, cigarettes and other smoking related products, sweets/candy, crisps and other snacks, soft drinks, stamps, basic stationery, bus passes and travelcards for the area's public transport such as Transport for London, lottery and scratch cards, mobile phone top up and other facilities for the paying of bills such as gas and electric. Most of these shops in the UK open early, many open at 6am and some employ one or more "paperboys", that would normally deliver newspapers by bicycle early in the morning before school.
Convenience stores are generally expected to open later than most shops, and some especially in the US to be open 24 hours a day, they sell most things available in a supermarket although have a smaller amount of choice.
StarCraft maps are files containing scenarios for the StarCraft real time strategy (RTS) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft maps have the file extension .SCM for the base game, and .SCX for those compatible with the expansion, Brood War.
Creating StarCraft Maps
StarCraft maps are developed with the StarCraft Campaign Editor, named StarEdit.
The most commonly used maps are provided courtesy of PISSPOP, one of the games first professional players and map makers.
Common Types of Custom Maps
Using different rules from the RTS format. Custom maps tend to fall into a few categories.
Defense Maps
In any defense map, the purpose is to stop waves of enemy units from reaching a specified target on the map. A popular type of this map is called Sunken defense, in which the players each control a group of Zerg Sunken Colonies. There is a specified number of waves, and when all waves are successfully defended, the players win.
Some types of this map employ a "point" system, in which the player can use points to buy more powerful units or defenses. There is also a technique called "Stacking" in which players can place defenses on top of each other, and is used by some maps.
Stacking
Stacking is a glitch in StarCraft that allows players to stack buildings on top of each other. It involves using triggers to make it so the map is covered in the fog of war. The StarCraft game engine recognizes buildings covered by the fog of war to be nonexistent, since they could have been destroyed since the player last saw it. Using triggers in the StarCraft Map Editor, the map is made so that a player can cover his whole vision in fog of war, and he will not receive vision from his units and buildings-meaning he cannot see his builder. However, StarCraft allows players to assign a hot key label to units and buildings. Thus he presses the number of the previously hot keyed unit, and can build where he wants because, as mentioned earlier, any buildings at that site are considered non-existent. Therefore, using this glitch, players can build on top of already existing buildings. This technique cannot be utilized in normal StarCraft.
Historical Maps
These maps follow an historic event or situation. Examples of these maps are Troy and WW1. These maps themselves fall under different categories, such as many so called "world war" maps utilize the tax collection system of diplomacy, but these maps generally allow players to have larger and more varied battles.
Board Game Maps
These maps are old board game rules adapted to StarCraft. Examples of these maps are Risk and StarCraft Diplomacy.
D&D style/Fantasy Maps
Maps based roughly on the Dungeons and Dragons rules and set mostly in fantasy settings. Ex. Mage RPG. Commonly used in games to show detail of a fictional place. The most widely known game that uses fictional maps is Dungeons and Dragons.
RP (Role Play) maps
RolePlay maps are vast 6-7 player maps, where the players are given no set goals, and have the ability to spawn any unit they please. After a brief "Setup" time period, each player commences RolePlay, making up their own story, RolePlay maps take place in many timesets, Medieval, Modern, Future and Post-Apocalypse
Evolve Maps
In this style of map/gameplay you have a choose four bunker defender. You get two vessels that spawn units. Fighting your enemy gives you points which allow you to improve your units by 'evolving' them. Another type of map, Random Evolves, has been created in which unit archetypes are given randomly.
There is a variation on this type of map known as "vovles" which is based loosely on the theory of Intelligent Design. Players spawn random units instead of a set hierarchy of units as in evolves, but the aim is still to destroy one's opponents bunker.
Diplomacy Maps
Diplomacy is a genre of custom multiplayer maps which utilizes real world terrain and tax collection as opposed to gathering as means of achieving minerals. The game most likely takes its name (but not its rules) from the Diplomacy board game.
Bound Maps
Bound maps give each player control of a single unit and all of the players attempt to pass many different types of obstacles without dying. Mostly, the obstacles are timed explosions.
LotR maps
In LotR/LotRish maps you can choose from 5-8 different nations. Each nation has different heroes and spawns that you use strategically to defeat your enemy. These maps are usually based on books like the Lord of the Rings, and Wheel of Time series. Popular maps of this style include: Rise of Sauron, Downfall of Numenor, Battle of Five Armies, White Moon, Sauron's Deciet, The Revelation, Wheel of Time - War of Power, Siege of Gondor, and Last Alliance. There are over 100 different LotR/LotRish maps for Starcraft, and still more being made.
The most successful strategy in LotRish maps is "opping". (Using your heroes to destroy a foes special building.)
Special Forces
This map is similar to a Role Playing Game but you are given an instruction
to kill all the crazy Kerrigans (Infested Kerrigan) units and all the cerebrates to win.
The player selects a powerful unit and then kills units to get gold. Gold is exchanged
for minerals at certain places. The player uses these minerals to upgrade; and at higher
level, even build more units. Mostly, the player plays as Terran against the Zerg but there are
games where you play as the Protoss and sometimes as the Protoss and Terran combined.
There are also some games in which you control a Zerg hero and attempt to kill (Terran and
Protoss) combined. In some cases there are secret units the player might get. These units are
super powerful and are a great addition. There are so many versions of this game but they all
circulate around the special forces. most secret units can only be gotten once, and that's
only by picking a specific unit at the beginning.
Helm's Deep
This is a map type that has evolved over the years. It was originally constructed by I_Am_Evil_Homer and was vastly improved by DarkStrake. Essentially, a fraction of the players play as the 'Orcs' while the others play as the humans (and sometimes elves). Though the goal of Helm's Deep varies with the version, in most there is a time limit in which the Orcs must destroy certain targets (either buildings or heroes, such as Theoden).
The game is made with several super powered units to represent Aragorn, Gimli, Saruman, etc. with hundreds of other units to represent soldiers.
Generally, because of the constraints of the map on how many units can be placed at any given time, more units spawn periodically.
Currently there is a huge Helms community in Battle.net especially in the USeast Server. Players like NarguilA, Dark-soul, Pisspop, JediEmissary and drumma have become legends by playing and inventing strategies that are thoroughly unique to the map. drumma is the creator of the most successful version. It is estimated that at least 200 games of "Helms Deep Fair 3 Final" are played daily on USeast. The majority of the helms deep players congregate on a channel named op heybumbum lead by heybumbum and pisspop.
The Annatar (a version of Helms Deep) community on USEast is headed by the 4H clan (4 Horsemen), while the community on USWest is far more fluid, but as several east players migrated there it has become much more active.
Sims
There are many variations of this map, Sims, Sims Vacation, SimCity, Sim School and possibly more. Each are based on the game developed by EA Games, The Sims. Usually, you start out as one person. You then build a house or move into a hotel or already existing house. In most versions of Starcraft Sims there are usually special players that will play as the police and gangsters. The gangsters are out to cause mayhem, and the police are trying to stop them.
Another variation of the Sims map is the "A Civilian's life". This is based on the life of a civilian. You do not necessarily have to have a house at the beginning. Your goal is to keep your happiness up (by eating, playing games, etc.)
Original variants of Starcraft Sims were small RP-spawned maps that were often rigged in favor of a certain player, usually the host. Invincible units and pre-built houses were not uncommon. Often maps would be spawned which were biased in favor of a certain clan, or a group of friends. In late 2005 many of these maps were deemed 'Obsolete' in favor of a more fair, industrial sims.
Creating StarCraft Maps
StarCraft maps are developed with the StarCraft Campaign Editor, named StarEdit.
The most commonly used maps are provided courtesy of PISSPOP, one of the games first professional players and map makers.
Common Types of Custom Maps
Using different rules from the RTS format. Custom maps tend to fall into a few categories.
Defense Maps
In any defense map, the purpose is to stop waves of enemy units from reaching a specified target on the map. A popular type of this map is called Sunken defense, in which the players each control a group of Zerg Sunken Colonies. There is a specified number of waves, and when all waves are successfully defended, the players win.
Some types of this map employ a "point" system, in which the player can use points to buy more powerful units or defenses. There is also a technique called "Stacking" in which players can place defenses on top of each other, and is used by some maps.
Stacking
Stacking is a glitch in StarCraft that allows players to stack buildings on top of each other. It involves using triggers to make it so the map is covered in the fog of war. The StarCraft game engine recognizes buildings covered by the fog of war to be nonexistent, since they could have been destroyed since the player last saw it. Using triggers in the StarCraft Map Editor, the map is made so that a player can cover his whole vision in fog of war, and he will not receive vision from his units and buildings-meaning he cannot see his builder. However, StarCraft allows players to assign a hot key label to units and buildings. Thus he presses the number of the previously hot keyed unit, and can build where he wants because, as mentioned earlier, any buildings at that site are considered non-existent. Therefore, using this glitch, players can build on top of already existing buildings. This technique cannot be utilized in normal StarCraft.
Historical Maps
These maps follow an historic event or situation. Examples of these maps are Troy and WW1. These maps themselves fall under different categories, such as many so called "world war" maps utilize the tax collection system of diplomacy, but these maps generally allow players to have larger and more varied battles.
Board Game Maps
These maps are old board game rules adapted to StarCraft. Examples of these maps are Risk and StarCraft Diplomacy.
D&D style/Fantasy Maps
Maps based roughly on the Dungeons and Dragons rules and set mostly in fantasy settings. Ex. Mage RPG. Commonly used in games to show detail of a fictional place. The most widely known game that uses fictional maps is Dungeons and Dragons.
RP (Role Play) maps
RolePlay maps are vast 6-7 player maps, where the players are given no set goals, and have the ability to spawn any unit they please. After a brief "Setup" time period, each player commences RolePlay, making up their own story, RolePlay maps take place in many timesets, Medieval, Modern, Future and Post-Apocalypse
Evolve Maps
In this style of map/gameplay you have a choose four bunker defender. You get two vessels that spawn units. Fighting your enemy gives you points which allow you to improve your units by 'evolving' them. Another type of map, Random Evolves, has been created in which unit archetypes are given randomly.
There is a variation on this type of map known as "vovles" which is based loosely on the theory of Intelligent Design. Players spawn random units instead of a set hierarchy of units as in evolves, but the aim is still to destroy one's opponents bunker.
Diplomacy Maps
Diplomacy is a genre of custom multiplayer maps which utilizes real world terrain and tax collection as opposed to gathering as means of achieving minerals. The game most likely takes its name (but not its rules) from the Diplomacy board game.
Bound Maps
Bound maps give each player control of a single unit and all of the players attempt to pass many different types of obstacles without dying. Mostly, the obstacles are timed explosions.
LotR maps
In LotR/LotRish maps you can choose from 5-8 different nations. Each nation has different heroes and spawns that you use strategically to defeat your enemy. These maps are usually based on books like the Lord of the Rings, and Wheel of Time series. Popular maps of this style include: Rise of Sauron, Downfall of Numenor, Battle of Five Armies, White Moon, Sauron's Deciet, The Revelation, Wheel of Time - War of Power, Siege of Gondor, and Last Alliance. There are over 100 different LotR/LotRish maps for Starcraft, and still more being made.
The most successful strategy in LotRish maps is "opping". (Using your heroes to destroy a foes special building.)
Special Forces
This map is similar to a Role Playing Game but you are given an instruction
to kill all the crazy Kerrigans (Infested Kerrigan) units and all the cerebrates to win.
The player selects a powerful unit and then kills units to get gold. Gold is exchanged
for minerals at certain places. The player uses these minerals to upgrade; and at higher
level, even build more units. Mostly, the player plays as Terran against the Zerg but there are
games where you play as the Protoss and sometimes as the Protoss and Terran combined.
There are also some games in which you control a Zerg hero and attempt to kill (Terran and
Protoss) combined. In some cases there are secret units the player might get. These units are
super powerful and are a great addition. There are so many versions of this game but they all
circulate around the special forces. most secret units can only be gotten once, and that's
only by picking a specific unit at the beginning.
Helm's Deep
This is a map type that has evolved over the years. It was originally constructed by I_Am_Evil_Homer and was vastly improved by DarkStrake. Essentially, a fraction of the players play as the 'Orcs' while the others play as the humans (and sometimes elves). Though the goal of Helm's Deep varies with the version, in most there is a time limit in which the Orcs must destroy certain targets (either buildings or heroes, such as Theoden).
The game is made with several super powered units to represent Aragorn, Gimli, Saruman, etc. with hundreds of other units to represent soldiers.
Generally, because of the constraints of the map on how many units can be placed at any given time, more units spawn periodically.
Currently there is a huge Helms community in Battle.net especially in the USeast Server. Players like NarguilA, Dark-soul, Pisspop, JediEmissary and drumma have become legends by playing and inventing strategies that are thoroughly unique to the map. drumma is the creator of the most successful version. It is estimated that at least 200 games of "Helms Deep Fair 3 Final" are played daily on USeast. The majority of the helms deep players congregate on a channel named op heybumbum lead by heybumbum and pisspop.
The Annatar (a version of Helms Deep) community on USEast is headed by the 4H clan (4 Horsemen), while the community on USWest is far more fluid, but as several east players migrated there it has become much more active.
Sims
There are many variations of this map, Sims, Sims Vacation, SimCity, Sim School and possibly more. Each are based on the game developed by EA Games, The Sims. Usually, you start out as one person. You then build a house or move into a hotel or already existing house. In most versions of Starcraft Sims there are usually special players that will play as the police and gangsters. The gangsters are out to cause mayhem, and the police are trying to stop them.
Another variation of the Sims map is the "A Civilian's life". This is based on the life of a civilian. You do not necessarily have to have a house at the beginning. Your goal is to keep your happiness up (by eating, playing games, etc.)
Original variants of Starcraft Sims were small RP-spawned maps that were often rigged in favor of a certain player, usually the host. Invincible units and pre-built houses were not uncommon. Often maps would be spawned which were biased in favor of a certain clan, or a group of friends. In late 2005 many of these maps were deemed 'Obsolete' in favor of a more fair, industrial sims.
This is a list of the top Youtube Video Downloader Tools.
Google has a solid amount of cash in its pockets, but with all the recent lawsuits against YouTube one has to wonder if it's time to salvage whatever videos you like from the service and save them somewhere where evil attorneys won't look - your hard drive.
Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It's hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we've chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we've found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:
Web based
4- When you don't want to mess with installing software to grab that priceless YouTube clip before it gets yanked, head over to web site VidDownloader which sucks in videos from all the big streaming sites (YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, Blip.TV, DailyMotion, etc.), converts 'em for you to a playable format and offers them for download. Other downloaders for online video sites buy you a Flash FLV file, but VidDownloader spits back an AVI file.
5. Zamzar is an online file format conversion site which can do a lot more than just converting YouTube videos to another format and downloading them to your hard drive, but it's doing a great job so we had to include it here. Thoroughly tested by us and highly recommended. See the video of it in action here.
Zamzar
6. YouTubia separates itself from the crowd by enabling you to search as well as download YouTube files. Options are scarce, but it works.
7. VidGrab is another simple site that works with YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and Break.com. Besides the download function, the site also sports a top list of most viewed videos.
www.vidgrab.com
8. Vixy offers both downloading videos and converting them into DivX avi, mov, mp4, 3gp, or mp3 (for audio only) formats. The conversion works well enough, but sometimes results in slightly choppy playback.
vixy.net
9. Hey! Watch is an ambitious video encoding service with a large number of options, especially when it comes to converting videos to portable media player formats (it even supports my trusty iRiver H340.) Most online video converters often produce crappy results, with video and audio being out of sync, and this problem is also present on Hey! Watch, but it happens rarely.
heywatch.com
10. Media Converter can be a little slow, but the results of the video conversion are quite good. We've converted some YouTube videos to avi (mpeg4 + mp3) format and it worked well. The tool is not limited to video conversion; it also supports several audio and document formats.
www.mediaconverter.org
Media Converter
11. KcoolOnline is a web-based converter which supports 98 video sharing web sites, including YouTube. It has literally zero options, so it's recommended for those who like to keep it simple.
www.kcoolonline.com
Windows Applications
12. VDownloader is a desktop application that catches YouTube, Google Video, and Grinvi video links from your clipboard. Start it up, copy the video URL and click download. It automatically converts the videos to mpeg or avi formats.
www.softpedia.com/progDownload/VDownloader-Download-51327.html
13. YouTube Grabber downloads files from Youtube in .flv format. Copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, press «grab», and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.
www.download.com/Youtube-Grabber/3000-2071_4-10574801.html
14. Orbit Downloader is a desktop application which can download videos from a wide variety of sites. The download process is very simple, just hover your mouse over the video and you'll get a button that says «Get It». The developers of the program claim that it's very fast (up to 500% faster, they say) due to its P2P download technology.
www.orbitdownloader.com
15. My Video Downloader. With all these free tools, it's actually funny to see a commercial one. It's called My Video Downloader, and while it does look solid and offers a lot of conversion options (a free trial which enables you to download 10 videos is available), we're not sure it offers enough to warrant a price tag.
myvideodownloader.com
16. KeepV is a desktop downloader as well as a converter, which can convert the downloaded videos from flv to avi, mov, mp4, or 3gp formats.
keepv.com
17. VideoGet boasts being able to download video clips from more than 100 video sharing websites. We haven't tested all of them, so we're just going to take their word for it. It's a deskop application with a nice, simple interface, and a solid number of options.
nuclear-coffee.com/php/products.php
VideoGet
18. TubeSucker is a desktop YouTube video downloader with some interesting options, including batch downloading large amounts of videos from a certain user. See the video tour on the site.
www.newrad.com/software/tubesucker/
OS X
19. Get Tube is an OS X application which lets you download video or audio files from YouTube, DailyMotion and Kewego.
web.mac.com/simonvrel/iWeb/software/v.1.0.html
Linux
20. Youtube-dl. Here's some love for Linux users. Youtube-dl is a program that lets you download YouTube clips in flv format, which both mplayer and VLC can easily chew up.
www.nuxified.org/blog/download_youtube_video_files_with_youtube_dl
21. YouTube Ripper is not actually an application; it's a simple script that rips all videos that match a keyword, uploaded by a specific YouTube user. We don't really have ideas on what to use this for, but maybe you do! PHP port is also available.
nlindblad.org/2007/04/08/youtube-ripper-collectors-edition/
Plugins
22. Vidtaker is a Firefox-only plugin that can download videos from most streaming websites: Google Video, YouTube, MySpace, as well as a number of nasty adult SomethingTube spinoffs (Pornotube, YouPorn etc). It automatically converts the video to a DivX avi.
www.vidtaker.com
23. Ook? Video Ook! Yes, that's the full name of this Firefox plugin, which enables you to download videos from YouTube and several other video sharing web sites. It features one click downloading and integration with the popular DownThemAll Firefox plugin.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2584
Google has a solid amount of cash in its pockets, but with all the recent lawsuits against YouTube one has to wonder if it's time to salvage whatever videos you like from the service and save them somewhere where evil attorneys won't look - your hard drive.
Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It's hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we've chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we've found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:
Web based
4- When you don't want to mess with installing software to grab that priceless YouTube clip before it gets yanked, head over to web site VidDownloader which sucks in videos from all the big streaming sites (YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, Blip.TV, DailyMotion, etc.), converts 'em for you to a playable format and offers them for download. Other downloaders for online video sites buy you a Flash FLV file, but VidDownloader spits back an AVI file.
5. Zamzar is an online file format conversion site which can do a lot more than just converting YouTube videos to another format and downloading them to your hard drive, but it's doing a great job so we had to include it here. Thoroughly tested by us and highly recommended. See the video of it in action here.
Zamzar
6. YouTubia separates itself from the crowd by enabling you to search as well as download YouTube files. Options are scarce, but it works.
7. VidGrab is another simple site that works with YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and Break.com. Besides the download function, the site also sports a top list of most viewed videos.
www.vidgrab.com
8. Vixy offers both downloading videos and converting them into DivX avi, mov, mp4, 3gp, or mp3 (for audio only) formats. The conversion works well enough, but sometimes results in slightly choppy playback.
vixy.net
9. Hey! Watch is an ambitious video encoding service with a large number of options, especially when it comes to converting videos to portable media player formats (it even supports my trusty iRiver H340.) Most online video converters often produce crappy results, with video and audio being out of sync, and this problem is also present on Hey! Watch, but it happens rarely.
heywatch.com
10. Media Converter can be a little slow, but the results of the video conversion are quite good. We've converted some YouTube videos to avi (mpeg4 + mp3) format and it worked well. The tool is not limited to video conversion; it also supports several audio and document formats.
www.mediaconverter.org
Media Converter
11. KcoolOnline is a web-based converter which supports 98 video sharing web sites, including YouTube. It has literally zero options, so it's recommended for those who like to keep it simple.
www.kcoolonline.com
Windows Applications
12. VDownloader is a desktop application that catches YouTube, Google Video, and Grinvi video links from your clipboard. Start it up, copy the video URL and click download. It automatically converts the videos to mpeg or avi formats.
www.softpedia.com/progDownload/VDownloader-Download-51327.html
13. YouTube Grabber downloads files from Youtube in .flv format. Copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, press «grab», and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.
www.download.com/Youtube-Grabber/3000-2071_4-10574801.html
14. Orbit Downloader is a desktop application which can download videos from a wide variety of sites. The download process is very simple, just hover your mouse over the video and you'll get a button that says «Get It». The developers of the program claim that it's very fast (up to 500% faster, they say) due to its P2P download technology.
www.orbitdownloader.com
15. My Video Downloader. With all these free tools, it's actually funny to see a commercial one. It's called My Video Downloader, and while it does look solid and offers a lot of conversion options (a free trial which enables you to download 10 videos is available), we're not sure it offers enough to warrant a price tag.
myvideodownloader.com
16. KeepV is a desktop downloader as well as a converter, which can convert the downloaded videos from flv to avi, mov, mp4, or 3gp formats.
keepv.com
17. VideoGet boasts being able to download video clips from more than 100 video sharing websites. We haven't tested all of them, so we're just going to take their word for it. It's a deskop application with a nice, simple interface, and a solid number of options.
nuclear-coffee.com/php/products.php
VideoGet
18. TubeSucker is a desktop YouTube video downloader with some interesting options, including batch downloading large amounts of videos from a certain user. See the video tour on the site.
www.newrad.com/software/tubesucker/
OS X
19. Get Tube is an OS X application which lets you download video or audio files from YouTube, DailyMotion and Kewego.
web.mac.com/simonvrel/iWeb/software/v.1.0.html
Linux
20. Youtube-dl. Here's some love for Linux users. Youtube-dl is a program that lets you download YouTube clips in flv format, which both mplayer and VLC can easily chew up.
www.nuxified.org/blog/download_youtube_video_files_with_youtube_dl
21. YouTube Ripper is not actually an application; it's a simple script that rips all videos that match a keyword, uploaded by a specific YouTube user. We don't really have ideas on what to use this for, but maybe you do! PHP port is also available.
nlindblad.org/2007/04/08/youtube-ripper-collectors-edition/
Plugins
22. Vidtaker is a Firefox-only plugin that can download videos from most streaming websites: Google Video, YouTube, MySpace, as well as a number of nasty adult SomethingTube spinoffs (Pornotube, YouPorn etc). It automatically converts the video to a DivX avi.
www.vidtaker.com
23. Ook? Video Ook! Yes, that's the full name of this Firefox plugin, which enables you to download videos from YouTube and several other video sharing web sites. It features one click downloading and integration with the popular DownThemAll Firefox plugin.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2584