download YouTube videos with Media Mister
- Sean O'Shea
- May 12
- 2 min read
If you search around, you'll find many suggestions online of how to download video from YouTube without purchasing a premium account for YouTube. Some of these work, and some don't. Some are some sketchy sites you should probably avoid. Media Mister is listed as a safe site in Norton Safe Search, and I've tested and confirmed it can be used to successfully download a complete video with audio.
Media Mister's primary function is to generate likes for social media content generators, but it also makes tools available to review social media data. Use the YouTube download tool here: https://www.mediamister.com/free-youtube-video-downloader
The site will give you the ability to download the video at different resolutions, or just the audio. For YouTube videos select the 360p option which includes the audio with the video. The video will open on new tab, and you just need to right click and download it. A video of an hour long can be downloaded in just a few moments.
What does in the p in '360p' mean? It does not stand for pixels - it indicates that progressive scanning has been used for the video - although a 360p video is 360 x 640 pixels.
360p videos are used on YouTube and other sites with streaming videos. A 240p video might appear on a mobile device.
Standard definition videos are 480p. High definition videos are those at 720p. 1080p is full high definition - the standard for Blu-ray.
You may also see a reference to 480i or 1080i. The 'i' refers to interlaced video - which was used for broadcast televisions. A video posted here on YouTube by Dans Tech describes the difference between the two types of video very well. An interlaced video shows video at a lower bandwidth by showing the even lines for a given frame in the first 1/60 of second and then the odd lines in the next 1/60 of a second. The image appears to be complete to the human eye.
In progressive scan, all of the lines are together. Progressive scan videos were used more widely after the emergence of modern computing because of the need for seamless motion on monitors.