YouTube Downloader and Converter

Downloading YouTube videos and converting YouTube videos to popular video formats is the most brilliant and praised feature of Any DVD Converter.

Any DVD Converter can convert DVD, DV, MOV, MP4, RMVB, AVI and ASF videos to FLV videos that fit to post on YouTube. What’s wonderful, Any DVD Converter can also download YouTube videos and convert YouTube videos to MP4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, 3GP and WMV videos.

What can the YouTube Downloader & Converter do?

• Download YouTube videos
• Download Google Videos
• Convert YouTube videos to MP4 for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV and 3GP cell phones
• Convert Google Videos to MP4 for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV and 3GP cell phones
• Convert YouTube videos to WMV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MP3
• Convert DVD to YouTube FLV
• Convert DVD to MP4, AVI, MPEG, 3GP, WMV and MP3
• Capture DV videos and convert to MP4 or WMV for Zune

YouTube Videos

The San Bruno-based YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Adobe Flash and Sorenson Spark H.263 video codec are used for the video content in YouTube site. YouTube boasts nearly 20 million unique users per month, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

YouTube users can upload AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG and MP4 videos to YouTube. YouTube will convert these video formats to Flash Video (FLV) after the uploading.

YouTube will also convert these WMV, AVI, MPEG, MP4 and MOV videos to H.263 or H.264 for playback on Apple TV and mobile devices. YouTube files contain an MP3 audio stream. YouTube vide is limited to 320 by 240 pixels. The bitrate of YouTube videos is about 314kbit/s.

Download and Convert YouTube Videos

There is another approach. Users can convert the videos to FLV format before uploading to YouTube. They can use flash to YouTube FLV converter, or video to YouTube FLV converter. Any DVD Converter is the versatile YouTube FLV videos maker. It can convert DVD, DV, MOV, MP4, RMVB, AVI and ASF videos to FLV videos that fit to post on YouTube. What’s wonderful, Any DVD Converter can also download YouTube videos and convert YouTube videos to MP4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, 3GP and WMV videos.

Any DVD Converter can also automatically download and converter Google Videos. But this feature is subject to the availability of Google Videos Service in specific countries and regions. Currently, Google Videos operate in only a few countries, including U.S., U.K. and Canada.

YouTube on the Go

By accepting and converting to more video formats, YouTube has enabled users enjoy YouTube videos on the go world-widely, on iPod, iPhone and 3G mobile phones.

YouTube can now convert WMV, AVI, MPEG and MOV videos to H.263 variant of Flash Video and use H.264 to stream YouTube videos on iPod touch, Apple TV and iPhone. All video content uploaded to YouTube now will be automatically encoded into H.264. As YouTube videos have 4:3 aspect ratio and the iPhone is 3:2, videos must be viewed with black bars on the side or may be zoomed to trim some of the top and bottom to fill the screen.

Besides converting common videos to H.264 for Apple TV and iPhone, YouTube also created special site dedicated to mobile phone users. 3G mobile phone users around the world can now access to YouTube’s 3GP videos with H263/AMR codec and RTSP streaming.