Is there a good, reliable way to capture YouTube videos?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Brian,
1. I followed this tip, posted on our iBBS a while back...
Easily Download YouTube movies via Safari
If you're using Safari, there's an easy way to download YouTube videos. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows the Activity window. If you're also loading other sites, you'll see a list of them: scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about what is being loaded.

You will certainly notice an element whose size is over 0.5MB (most of the time, over 5MB). Double-click on it (even if it is still loading), and Safari will download it. When the download is over, navigate to the file in the Finder (which will probably be called get_video) and add the extension .flv to its name. Now you can play it with VLC or with QuickTime (only if you have Perian installed).

2. And worked thru any conflict I had here....
Can you download a YouTube video

3. Now, with no conflicts, and Perian installed, I go to the Activity pane, download the loading file.
Change the extension. Open with Quicktime.
HTH

Thanks Chita.

If you don't want your files to stay .flv, get TubeSock. it converts after download to other file types, and can be stored as a link in the Bookmark Bar for easy use.