I was searching around for the youtube downloader, i found this interesting post which i wanted to share with you guys. Everyone these days is
downloading, watching, and
sharing videos from video-sharing sites like
YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Veoh, Break, and a ton of
other similar sites. Whether you want to
watch the video on your
iPod while working out, insert it into a
PowerPoint presentation to add some
spice, or simply
download a video before it’s removed, it’s quite essential to know how to
download, convert, and play these
videos.
Free Web services for downloading videos from video-sharing sites
ClipNabber allows you to download videos from
YouTube, Metacafe, etc by simply copying and
pasting the URL. You’ll then get a link whereby you can download the file to your computer,
iPod, iPhone, or any other
media player. You’ll need to have an
FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use!
Zamzar is a
free online file conversion web application that can not only convert videos off the Internet to
AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MP4, MOV, etc, but also converts between
audio, image, and
document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your
favorite format.
Vixy.net is another site that not only downloads online videos, but will also convert them
AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don’t have to worry about downloading a
FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format.
(Same as Zamzar) KeepVid also supports just about any
video sharing site out there and the only difference about this site is that it also has a
Top Videos section, so you can quickly download the most watched
videos around the web.
Media Converter is similar to
ZamZar and
vixy.net, but requires you to create an account and log in. Also, it seems like it only supports downloading and converting videos from
YouTube. You can also download their
video download program, but it only supports
5 sites. Hey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats
including HD very quickly. The
graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an
FTP server or to
online storage.
YoutubeX, as the name suggests, allows you to download videos from
YouTube. Obviously, it only supports
YouTube, but it has a couple of other features, such as the ability to play your video on the site and find
popular videos quickly.
VideoRonk searches across multiple video-sharing sites such as
Google Video, YouTube, MetaCafe and
DailyMotion to find the most popular videos on each of them. You can either watch them on
VideoRonk or download them to your computer in
FLV format. According to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm>, etc. You’ll have to rename the files you download from YouTube with the .FLV extension at the end.
zainsaeed · 205 weeks ago