Downloading YouTube videos
YouTube applies Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content. Once you have Adobe Flash Player installed in your browser, you can watch YouTube videos online, both on the offical site, www.youtube.com, or even web pages outsite it.
Nowadays we got plenty of ways to access Youtube videos, computer with network connection, mobile phones, Apple TV, Wii, and more.
Wondershare YouTube Downloader
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: USD 25.00
Wondershare Youtube Downloader
Wondershare YouTube downloader is a very easy-to-use YouTube video downloading tool and YouTube Converter. It has the complete functions to download YouTube videos, archive YouTube videos, and convert YouTube videos to iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Zune, Pocket PC and a lot of other mobile devices.
Wondershare YouTube Downloader can automatically detect YouTube video files from the YouTube web pages you have opened and download multiple files at a time. It supports automatically searching and downloading videos on Windows Vista system. With it you can also search and download video files from Yahoo and Google's web pages. It can also batch convert downloaded YouTube video files or local FLV files on your computer.
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: USD 25.00
Download YouTube videos with Cucusoft YouTube Mate
Cucusoft YouTube Mate helps you download, convert, play and manage your favorite YouTube videos. The Cucusoft YouTube Mate supports unlimited simultaneous downloads. It can automatically re-name the downloaded video the same as the YouTube title.
It can also convert YouTube videos to various video formats, including avi, DivX, XviD, rm, rmvb, MOV, MPEG, and WMV video formats.
With YouTube Mate, you can also convert downloaded YouTube videos to a format compatible with your favorite portable device: iPod, iPhone, Zune, PS, mobile phones, Pocket PC and other media players with video playback capacity.
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: USD 25.00
Direct download YouTube videos
You have the option of downloading and storing your favorite Partner videos and watching these videos even without an internet connection. To download Partner video:
1. Find the video you'd like to download. Below the video's play bar in the lower left hand corner, you'll see a 'Download' button.
2. Click the 'Download' button to indicate that you'd like to download the video.
Not all videos have the option to download enabled. Only certain Partner videos have this feature. If you do not see the download button below the video, it means downloading is not yet enabled for the video.
Download Youtube videos with Youtube Robot
YouTube Robot is an all-in-one online video downloader and video converter for watching YouTube video, Google video and the other online video on your computer, mobile phone, iPod, Pocket PC, PSP and so on.
YouTube Robot will search the Internet since you open it. The video list is categorized by video, category or channel. You can select the most viewed, most featured; most recent video etc. in video option or video about music education, entertainment etc. in category option or most subscribed this week, this month or all time in channel option.
YouTube can also download videos from Break.com, Vimeo.com, Putfile.com, Google.com, Angryalien.com and more.
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: USD 34.95
Download Youtube videos with UltraGet Video Downloader
UltraGet is a free video downloader for downloading online videos like YouTube videos, Google videos, Nico videos and others.
Key features of the online video downloader include:
- -- Download YouTube videos
- -- Download Google videos
- -- Download MetaCafe videos
- -- Download Nico videos
- -- Batch download mode
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: Free
Download YouTube videos via iTunes
Some partners on YouTube allow you to download their videos in the MP4 file format, using the H.264 video codec and the AAC audio codec. The following software can play YouTube's MP4 files on your computer:
• QuickTime Player (Windows and MacOS).
• VLC media player (Windows, MacOS, Linux, and more).
Here's how to transfer an MP4 video file to an iPhone or iPod:
1. Start iTunes.
From the 'File' menu, select 'Add File to Library'.
2. Select the MP4 video file on your computer.
3. This video will now appear in the Library under 'Movies' section of iTunes.
4. Connect your iPhone or iPod to your computer; it should then appear under the 'Devices' section of iTunes.
5. Click your device name.
6. Go to the Video tab on the right hand side of the page.
7. Scroll down to the 'Movies' section, enable Sync movies, and then enable the checkbox in front of the name of the video file.
8. Click the 'Apply' (or Sync) button.
Youtube has become a profitable business for software developers and website owners around the world. Websites and apps keep coming out to offer services or software that help improve YouTube experience. It could feature YouTube video picks, funny YouTube videos, desktop apps or webare for downloading YouTube videos, programs for converting YouTube videos to popular video formats, or even FLV players that can play YouTube videos on PC.