What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?

[Hawk]

Hi guys.

Lost my brilliant YouTube video downloader/converter because of the ransom virus hit that I had and I cannot remember what it was named....... So I'm just wondering if you guys can point me in the right direction for a great free Youtube  video downloader/converter?

Thanks. 

Hawk.

[JamoZ]

I always use http://keepvid.com/ to download audio and/or video from youtube

[CapeDoctor]

i use VDownloader   

[HornetMaX]

keepvid.com for the occasional need.

If you download often, video DownloadHelper for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/) works very well.
I only use it as downloader, if I need converting I use handbrake.

MaX.

[Hawk]

Thanks for the advice guys. 

If anyone else has any other suggestions keep them coming.....

All suggestions so far greatly appreciated! 

Hawk.

[matty0l215]

I've always used DVD soft but reacently malwarebyte has flaged it a couple of times

[cdx]

http://www.clipconverter.cc/

That's the only one I've used, and only a few times but it seems good.

[PeterV]

http://www.clipconverter.cc/

That's the only one I've used, and only a few times but it seems good.

Nice one, especially that you can enter a start and end point for recording.

[Hawk]

keepvid.com for the occasional need.

If you download often, video DownloadHelper for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/) works very well.
I only use it as downloader, if I need converting I use handbrake.

MaX.

Handbrake looks like a very nice piece of kit for conversion work Max! Nice one. 

Can you use Handbrake to tie two part videos together to create one whole video out of the two parts?

http://www.clipconverter.cc/

That's the only one I've used, and only a few times but it seems good.

Also very impressed with Clipconverter as well.... Very fast with plenty of options.

Hawk.

[HornetMaX]

Handbrake looks like a very nice piece of kit for conversion work Max! Nice one. 

Yep, it's little beauty (and it's free and ad-free).

Can you use Handbrake to tie two part videos together to create one whole video out of the two parts?

Don't think so. But you can find plenty of tiny tools to do that. Google "mkv join" or something similar.
If you want to go full blown, you may try avidemux: but the nterface is fugly.

MaX.