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

Posted on January 17, 2008 at 8:43 am

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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10 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 http://www.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 http://www.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. Willem said on : April 11th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Na wat googelen ben ik erachter gekomen dat http://www.youtubedownload.nl een


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

    merci pour l’aide you are the best


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

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


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

    good one


  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-.....erter.html


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