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I have been trying to download youtube videos these past few days but have been getting the error message:

"[youtube.com] Error: Not a valid URL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzbOoJNC_TU). Visit our web to know in detail what video sites are supported.
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even though I am sure the URL is correct.

I thought it was the server down but after so many days, I was still getting this message. I am running on a mac, but trying with my thinkpad, I also got the same message.

Is this service no longer available?

Maybe youtube doesn't let you download videos!

Try this method instead, its a little more fail safe:

1. Find the video on youtube that you want to download, ill be using the url you provided above (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzbOoJNC_TU)
   
2. Copy the contents of the embed box into a text editor. (or your address bar if you dont mind working in a confined space). the contents in the above example are as followed
   Code:

   <object width="425" height="353"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BzbOoJNC_TU&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="[b]http://www.youtube.com/v/BzbOoJNC_TU&rel=1[/b]" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="353"></embed></object>
3. Copy out the url in the embed tab between the quotations after src=, in the above example the url is http://www.youtube.com/v/BzbOoJNC_TU&rel=1
   
4. Put the URL back into your browser and click enter
   
5. The URL will now change to a much longer url (http://www.youtube.com/jp.swf?video_id=B...rhAp&rel=1 ... for example)
   
6. Change the part of the url saying "jp.swf?" to "get_video?" and press enter again