How to Download YouTube Videos

YouTube is a terrific source for informational and entertainment videos. You can find how to videos on many subjects and catch up on a lot of what is happening around the world simply by doing a quick search of YouTube. This website also contains an incredible amount of movie trailers, video clips and full-blown musical acts which can be viewed anytime you like, making it ideal to download YouTube videos for on the go entertainment.

The videos which are presented on YouTube are flash files. These files are easily transferred to your desktop or laptop computer so that you may view them at your leisure. This has many advantages over watching them on line. If you happen to like a certain instructional video presented on YouTube, you can save it to your hard drive and use it to refer back to later when you tackle the project being discussed on the video.

If you happen to have a certain band that you enjoy listening to, you can download their videos from YouTube and take them anywhere you go. This can make a boring trip a lot more bearable, and it works wonders for your children while driving on vacation. Once you download YouTube videos to your hard drive, you do not need an Internet connection to view them, which makes them a very economical diversion for the kids while you drive.

You can either use the Firefox browser with a special add-on which will allow you to download YouTube videos with a click of a button, or you can go to certain websites which will allow you to enter the URL of the video and download it straight to your computer.

YouTube is an absolute gold mine of information and entertainment. Unfortunately it isn't possible to have a computer with you everywhere you go, even in the age of laptops. However if you are an iPod owner, you can download YouTube videos and take them with you anywhere you go. What's even better is it is so simple anyone can do it.

YouTube videos are in flash format, which is not compatible at this time with your iPod. Therefore you not only have to download YouTube videos, you have to convert them to MP4 so that you can view them on your iPod. If you're unfamiliar with this process it may sound a little daunting, but have no fear I'll have you downloading and converting YouTube videos in just a few minutes.

There are two ways that you can go about converting YouTube videos to MP4. You can use a program to download YouTube videos and then use another program to convert those videos to iPod format. I choose not to go that route, as I like things as clean and simple as possible. You can download your favorite YouTube videos and convert them to be able to view them in your iPod all at once, and I'm going to tell you how simple it really is.

I have three different websites I like to use to convert YouTube videos to be viewable on my iPod. The first one is Vixy.net. This site is very easy to use and is very good at both downloading YouTube videos and converting them to MP4. You can also use ModifyVideo.com or ConvertYouTube.com to snatch and convert your favorite YouTube videos.

Well, that's it! See, I told you it was very simple. You now can go download YouTube videos and convert them for your iPod so you may take them any where you like and view them at your leisure.