4/14/2009

How to download free Youtube Video to iPod

YouTube is a online streaming video sharing website where we can upload, view and share countless video clips through Youtube, but what happens if you find a video you really like and would like to save it to computer for offline viewing or to watch play it on a mobile device like iPod?

Unfortunately, we are limited only to streaming as youTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos. Well, here we have two easy-to-use ways that make downloading Youtube videos to iPod Touch iPod Nano iPod Classic, etc possible.

And this is a quick tutorial about how to save download Youtube Video to computer and get your favorite Video from Youtube to iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, it just includes 3 parts:
1.How to download Free Youtube Video
2.How to convert Youtube Video to iPod
3.How to put Youtube Video on iPod

Part 1. Save Youtube Video to Computer
Step1.With Free online Video ConverterFree online Video Converter like http://www.zamzar.com/, http://vixy.net/, KeepVid.com, etc are all web-based video downloader and online Video Converter, here we take Zamzar as example to tell how to download and convert youtube Video.Step 1. Open this website: http://www.zamzar.com/

Step 2.Then go to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ and find a video that you love. Copy the URL that in the Red box. Like this format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qptta92yEoc&feature=dir

Step 3. Switch to "Download Videos" tab on ZamZar, paste your video file URL to the input box (figure as follow), choose the right format you want. as you want to put youtube video on ipod, so you can select mp4 and convert your video direclty(MP4 is also fit for PSP, Zune, Apple TV and other MP4 players. This online converter also can rip audio to MP3.), then enter your email address to receive converted file, then click "convert" to start conversion

Step 4. After the conversion finished, check out the mailbox to get the video please. Note:You can not convert the big video files using free online converters. It is up to 100MB. And the quality of the output files is just so so.

2. Download Youtube Videos with Firefox Plugin

Video downloader - a free firefox plugin, also a quick and convenient way to extract your favorite YouTube videos using this add-on. besides YouTube, this plug-in supports other video streaming sites including Metacafe, Google Videos and Dailymotion, among others

Step 1. free download and install the Video downloader extension tool for Firefox herehttps://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Step 2. After installation, restart your Firefox browser, go to a YouTube page of your own choosing, you can see a small icon to the status bar at the bottom of the firefox window , just click that and you can download the video you are currently watching. this will then open up video downloader. simply click the "Download Link" tab to whichever videos you wish to download. It's very easy.

Part 2. How to convert Youtube Video to iPod Touch/Nano/Classic

Mostly, the video downloaded from Youtube is FLV formats that isn't compatible with iPod, you may need the third party software to convert Youtube Video to iPod, here iSkysoft iPod Movie Converter is a good choice among all youtube to iPod Converter, it can convert youtube video to iPod Video Auido files MP4 MP3 with high output quality and fast conversion speed, the batch conversion mode can save up a lot of time for you to play youtube video on iPod while onilne Video converter may let you stuck

Home Page of iSkysoft iPod Movie Converterhttp://www.hd-dvd-ripper.net/ipod-movie-converter.html#139

Just click"Add" to import youtube Video, select "iPod Video MPEG-4(.MP4)" as output formats, then click " Start" to convert youtube video to iPod, done:)

Part 3. How to put Youtube Video on iPod Touch/Nano/Classic

There are solutions for us to put videos on iPod touch nano:

Method 1: with iTunes
1. Open iTunes and click "File" to add your videos to iTunes library.
2. plug in your iPod to computer, then iTunes will detect your iPod as a device.
3. Select your iPod device on the left panel of iTunes, click "Movies" tab, check the videos you want to sync and click "Apply".

Mothed 2: with iTransfer
Daniusoft iTransfer is an iPod/iPhone backup & transfer tool to transfer music/video to iPod, and vice versa.

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