Youtube.com is a huge video sharing website and there are many different tools. Here are some of the best convertors, plugins which can help you in downloading video’s from youtube to a local player, computer, ipod, iphone or any mobile phone.
- DVDVideoSoft.com : This software is completely free and helps you out in downloading youtube videos and converting them into Mp3 Audio files which can be directly played into your mobile phone devices or computers. Download the application and install it to your computer. Once you run the application you will be asked with the link to the youtube video page which you can directly copy and paste from your browsers address bar. The next option would be to select the quality of the output Mp3 file and the location where you would to save the file. Click on download & Convert and this tool offers you with a high quality Mp3 version of any youtube video file.
- Moyea YouTube Converter : This convertor not only downloads youtube videos but also helps you in converting high quality videos into many different formats which can be played on Apple iPhone, zune, mobile phones, Apple Tv, Apple iPod and more. Even though this software costs you 35$ fees but the trial download also offers complete conversions with a small watermark on the top left of the videos. This software also works on various video sharing websites like Metacafe, Youtube, Daily Motion, Google Video etc With the paid version of this software you also have a feature to add your own watermarks to your downloaded videos.
- Media Convertor : This is a Online convertor which converts audio and video directly online from various video sharing websites, or by uploading a file from your local computer. If you select a youtube video conversion you can convert it into these video formats 3gp, avi, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, mpg, rm, wmv, psp and these audio formats mp3, wav, ogg, which is seriously a huge number of conversion formats with a online conversion tool. Once the conversion is completed you will be recieving a link to the converted file via email you register with mediaconvertor.org.
Here are some i use to download videos from youtube
1. vixy.net
2. http://keepvid.com ( i love this )
For list of youtube video downloading websites – http://www.thewwwblog.com/download-youtube-videos.html
An Offline video converter is the best one. Internet speed in India is nto that great, going in MB’s, I use a software from Altervista.org, I reviewed it last year here.
http://www.techiesden.com/2007/07/31/google-you-tube-video-downloader/
I also recommend the YouTube Downloader – the one Vaibhav mentioned. My review of it, and a list of others is here.
There are also websites you can use to download YouTube videos and even a Firefox plugin to do it.
Eerik