Everyday, plentiful video clips are uploaded to YouTube.com. Somebody say that these sites will disappear soonest, due to obvious copyright infringement issues, and then, why not to download those good video clips and save to our computer/iPod/PSP before they're gone forever? Here I will show you to get around this possibility and copy videos from YouTube.com.
How to put YouTube videos on your Zune? First, you will need a couple of utilities to accomplish this. You will need one utility to download the video off of YouTube (the FLV file) and another to convert the file to a Zune player compatible video.
You can used Youtube Downloader to download the YouTube video and FLV Converter to convert the file. After installing the two applications, go to YouTube and find the YouTube video(s) you want on your Zune.
Download YouTube video files and save as the FLV file
For Internet Explorer (PC) users
Find a favourite video clip, copy the url link which is located right below the video you've chosen and paste it to the “URL:” box from the site . After clicking on the “search” button, [Download Link] would be showed. You only need to right-click the [Download Link] and save the file.
Note: rename the file extension from *.php to *.flv when saving it. So, the FLV video file was saved to your computer.The FLV file isn’t widely used, so you need to download a special player to play the file. Freeware FLV Player is highly recommended. Download FLY Player .
For Internet Explorer (Mac) users
Search your hard drive for a file called "get_video". You can use Spotlight to find the file.
Copy it to your Desktop
Rename the file extension from *.php to *.flv.
Convert the FLV file
There are many programs to convert the FLV file.
Mac users may look at iSquint. It's a free application. It can be downloaded at http://www.isquint.org/
PC users has the powerful FLV Converter (recommend). It can convert FLV to WMV, FLV to MPEG, FLV to MP4 for Zune, iPod, PSP etc MP4 Player.
