Convert YouTube videos to iPod/PSP/3GP (mobile phone) format

Posted on January 17, 2008 at 8:43 am

Make sure to read other posts from the Convert File Formats series!

  1. File conversion for free! Convert any file to anything!
  2. How to convert a PDF file to Word, Excel or JPG format
  3. Search, download and convert Internet videos to your PSP, iPod, cell phone, etc
  4. Convert YouTube videos to iPod/PSP/3GP (mobile phone) format
  5. How to convert or view any website on a mobile phone or device
  6. Convert any iPhone or iTunes song into a ringtone

Do you watch YouTube videos? Do you wish you could somehow save these video’s to watch at your leisure or share with others? Do you want to download these YouTube clips to your iPod, PSP or mobile phone? Yes?

Well up until recently, to download a YouTube video you needed a ‘paid for’ software package. Now there is a freeware converter tool readily available for download that does just the job. It is called the Free YouTube to iPod Converter and it does all this for you in 3 quick and easy steps;

1) Launch an Internet browser session for YouTube and navigate to the video clip you want. Copy the URL link address of the video.

clip_image002[3]

2) Launch Free YouTube to iPod Converter and paste the URL link address of the video file into the ‘Input video file or YouTube URL containing video’ field.

clip_image002[5]

3) Choose the destination location for the ‘Output file’ to be created and click ‘Download & Convert’. That’s it! The video will be converted.

clip_image002[7]

The input URL picks up the location of the video on YouTube, the converter software then picks up the FLV formatted YouTube file, downloads it to specified output file and converts it to the required MP4 format.

It is then a case of just locating the file on your computer and dragging/dropping it into your media device. The whole process only takes a couple of minutes, even to download the longest YouTube clips and you will have MP4 format video ready for uploading to your media device or mobile phone.

You can change the settings for the download so that the conversion is in iPod, PSP, mobile phone or MP3 audio format, and there are 4 presets to set the quality of the video – Highest, High, Standard and Economy.

In my experience I always use the Highest or High settings. Even if you are so short of memory that you are thinking of reverting back to floppy’s, you still will not need to reduce the quality of your download to Standard or Economy as the files are never that big. For information, the default setting is for iPod conversion.

Note: This program is Freeware and contains no Spyware or Adware.

This is a guest post by Neil Henry.

[tags]convert youtube video to ipod, convert youtube video to psp, convert youtube video to 3gp, convert youtube videos, download youtube vidoes[/tags]

» Filed Under Free Software Downloads

Related Posts

Comments

18 Responses to “Convert YouTube videos to iPod/PSP/3GP (mobile phone) format”

  1. rambhai said on : January 19th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    you can also download youtube videos thorugh savetube at savetube.com thats the most simple method to do it~~~they also provide with converter ~~its also free


  2. Henry said on : January 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    I found this amazing website it is a WEB 2.0 that supports all media files conversion it is called youconvertit.com they can do the following:

    1- Convert document, images, audio, video and Archived files.
    2- Convert any Youtube and other Online Video to popular formats or download the video
    3- Send file(s) up to 300 MB to friends or post it on any forum for 7 days
    4- Convert any type of units (Acceleration, Area, Torque and others)

    what makes them amazing is you can add up to 5 different file formats, i used them to convert a document and couple of audio files.

    Try them and give me your feedback


  3. angelsmelancholy said on : March 8th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    great programm


  4. Lizzie said on : March 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    hello, I’ve read the informations you’ve provided here,tried it for myself and it’s really good, even without internet connection I was able to watch my favorite youtube videos that I’ved saved here in my PC using the techniques you’ve said. But my problem now is, the videos which I have converted to MP4 format for me to be able to save and watch it on my mobile phone were not playing. My phone, Nokia N70 always shows the ‘message’(as I thought it was): UNABLE TO PLAY VIDEO CLIP- whenever I tried to open the converted files I’ve saved here in my phone,Why? Is there something wrong with the format I’ve converted?but my phone is capable of playing MP4 files. I don’t know what to do, the techniques you have posted here were really of great help to me, but regarding with my phone cannot be able to play the video clips converted by the iPod converter, how is that? hope you can help me, it will be much appreciated.

    Thanks and more power,
    Lizzy


  5. hichem benderdou said on : May 25th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    merci pour l’aide you are the best


  6. R SUBRAMANIAN said on : June 17th, 2008 at 5:47 am

    super stuff!
    mind blowing!!!!!!!!!
    THANKS a lot to the developer!!!!


  7. haris said on : September 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am

    good one


  8. lemoni said on : May 6th, 2009 at 4:30 am

    Thank you. Its very good. Now, I can download videos from YouTube. COOL. Will it download 100% of the video?


  9. yash said on : August 25th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    hii….
    anyone can tell me how to download 3gp videos directly frm youtube or any other site plzzzzz…….telll me…


  10. elina said on : November 9th, 2009 at 1:10 am

    nice guide thank you for shairng. it is really helpful.
    here i know another convert tool
    it can convert video files at super fast speed and best video quality. It can convert video file between any video format such as converting AVI to MPEG, WMV to AVI, WMV to MPEG, MKV to AVI, MKV to MP4, etc.
    http://www.useesoft.com/video-converters/total-video-converter.html


  11. dirk said on : December 3rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    I am using a black berry 8330m. I want to only take the url from youtube and have it converted online and then the results emailed to me to be seen through 3gp on my phone. Most sites “say” they do that but then the blackberry will not alow me to push the start button. I also have metro pcs
    Email ans to dirmr@yahoo.com


  12. fabio said on : January 9th, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    I also recommend this service:

    youtubeonlinevideoconverter.com

    Allows you to download and convert videos directly from YouTube and supports more output formats.


  13. Jose said on : January 24th, 2010 at 4:49 am

    Ahhh finally got a YouTube video onto my iPod! Thanks for sharing great artcles, I will keep coming back to check your site for this kinds of article. Thanks!


  14. Tate said on : March 15th, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Dude, this is way too complicated. If you want a YouTube video on your iPhone or iPod, download it using 3outube.com. Go to the site, it’s really easy.

    Then download HandBrake and convert the video into the iPhone/iPod format. That program is way better than the one above.


  15. pranav said on : April 22nd, 2010 at 5:24 am

    i want to download videos of youtube in 3gp format but savetube is not working please suggest me anything else


  16. likethat said on : July 12th, 2010 at 9:15 am

    Hi.

    I found new software that can convert video files, and can also convert DVDs to any type. It’s name is Video Converter Max, and it can be found at audiotools.ws.


  17. B said on : July 20th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    Is it legal to convert YouTube videos to mp3s and download them?


  18. Volver said on : July 21st, 2010 at 8:55 am

    I have compared different converters and I recommend MelodyCan. It converts music and movies, and also can remove DRM protection. The converter is easy to install and use.


Please post your comments/suggestions!