.htaccess redirect question

Hi, I am trying to use .htaccess and rewrite engine to do something. I looked throughout google and come up empty.

Basically my new site coming out soon, getfromyoutube.com, is a downloader for youtube videos, and as will kissyoutube.com where you can simply just put the word, kiss, infront of the video url to download, i wanna be able to do the same, but users put getfrom infront of the url

I have hit a snag, i got all code working so it will work, but now i wanna be able to redirect all requests in form of

/watch?v=something

to redirect to

/index.php?v=something

but everytime i try it wont keep whats after the v=, adn just shows up as v=

Is this possible and can someone help me on how to do this.

Thanks

 

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} v=(.+)
RewriteRule ^watch$ /index.php?v=%1 [L,NC]

 

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^v=
RewriteRule ^watch$ /index.php [QSA,L]

Code (markup):

(Oops, had this page open for awhile and didn't notice someone posted )

 

Thanks guys. always been able to get help at these forums. thanks.