Ever since Youtube and other video-sharing sites went online, we have been downloading their videos like crazy. Since there are a lot of tools out there for your to choose, here are list of the top 5 video download tools for desktops. Yes, installation is required but it is free to use. Check out the following list:

1. Orbit Downloader – This is by far the best desktop application I have seen for downloading any type of social media off the Internet. It can download videos and music from MySpace, YouTube, Pandora, Rapidshare, and lots more. It has a great interface and carries a very small foot print.

2. VDownloader – A small little application that can download videos from many sites and converts them to AVI or MPG format.

3. VideoDownloader – A useful FireFox add-on that supports more than 60 video sharing sites. It can also download other objects on a web page, such as movies, MP3s, flash files, and Quicktime movies directly.

4. Ares Tube – Another popular video download application that is very small and very easy to use. You can download videos in batches by entering URLs into a queue and Ares Tube can convert them into different formats such as iPod, MP4, MPG, etc.

4. YouTubeGrabber – Not a very fancy program, it simply takes your URL and downloads the file. No conversion is done and you’ll need to install an FLV player to watch the videos.

5. KeepV – Downloads videos from YouTube, MySpace, and Google and converts them to either MOV, 3GP, AVI, iPod, or PSP format.

If you find these are not an ideal way since it takes up hard drive hard space or may slow down your PC, then checkout my other post on free web services that requires no installation. With the above tools it should cover most of the videos you wanted to download from the video-sharing sites. If you have other recommendations, do post it via comments.

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