How to download videos from You Tube?

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

• From the above link, first you download and install a software called, "YouTube Downloader"
• Using "YouTube Downloader", you can download videos from YouTube Video, Google Video and Yahoo Video.
• This also has options to convert the videos to Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, MP3, Windows Media, and XVid.
  

In the task bar a balloon with "MTP device has been found" is coming. How to stop this?

Start --> Right Click
Select Properties --> Select Properties
Select Taskbar --> Click Customise box
Click "Show hardware devices" (Some times you may see 'No title'. Select that)
Select "hide when inactive" (on the right)
Change it to "always hide"

This will allow you to use 'Add New Hardware' in Control Panel.

"always hide." This will allow you to use add new hardware, you can then delete the devices

To know what is a MTP device? click here.

Click here to know what is MTP?

My taskbar says a "MTP device has been found". What is this?

Devices like Mobile Phones & Portable Audio/video Players (with USB connectivity) are called MTP devices.

Did you connect 'Mobile Phone' or any 'Portable Audio/Video Player" in your USB Port?
If yes, you will get this balloon in Windows Task Bar.

Upgrade Windows Media Player to ver 10 or higher to stop this 'task bar balloon' and install MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). Click here to know what is MTP

What is PTP?

PTP or Picture Transfer Protocol is used in windows based systems to download pictures from digital cameras. Particularly useful when handling media objects larger than 4GB and streaming videos.

Both Microsoft and Mac have PTP as inbuilt. Linux & open source has many supporting libraries.

All video files are playing very dark. How to play it normally?

If you are using Windows Media Player

• Select Preferences
• Disable Overlay

If you are using VLC Media Player

• Select Settings
• Select Preferences
• Select Video
• Disable Overlay Video output