YouTube Downloader and Video Converter

What can the YouTube Downloader & Converter do?

• Download YouTube videos by pasting URL.
• Download Google Videos and Japanese Nico videos.
• Specify YouTube video quality to download. HD MP4, MP4, FLV, 3GP versions are available.
• Log in YouTube in program to download the videos that need to verify.
• Log in Nico video to download Nico videos. (logging in is required to download Nico videos.)
• Convert YouTube videos, Google videos and Nico videos to other videos formats.
• Extract audio from YouTube videos, Google videos and Nico videos.
• Convert video formats to FLV or x264 which can be uploaded to YouTube.

What is YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.

The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.

Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service. Accounts of registered users are called "channels".

To learn more information about YouTube, you can visit YouTube website and WikiPedia.

How to download YouTube videos in Any DVD Converter?

To download YouTube videosin Any DVD Converter, what you need to do is to paste URL links of desired YouTube videos. URL of Google videos and Nico videos will be also accepted. There are some ways to paste YouTube video URL.

(1) Simply click YouTube button or click menu "File --> Import Video from Internet" and paste YouTube video URL one by one. See the picture below.

(2) Copy a YouTube video URL, right-click on the middle panel of Any DVD Converter, click "Paste Video URL".

Then select your desired output video formats and click Convert button, YouTube videos and other online videos will be downloaded to hard drive and then converted to other video formats or audio formats.

How to specify YouTube quality to download?

For a better experience to watch YouTube videos on hard dirve or portable media players or mobile phones, you may know something about YouTube video quality at first.

YouTube originally offered videos in FLV format, but it now has three main formats, as well as a "mobile" format, for viewing on mobile phones. The original format, now labeled "standard quality", displays videos at a resolution of 320x240 pixels using the Sorenson Spark codec, with mono MP3 audio. "High quality" videos, introduced in March 2008, are shown at up to 864x480 pixels with stereo AAC sound. This format offers a significant improvement over standard quality. In November 2008 720p HD support was added. At the same time, the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. 720p videos are shown at 1280x720 pixels resolution and encoded with the H.264 video codec. They also feature stereo audio encoded with AAC.

Click Options button or menu Edit --> Options, switch to Online Video tab, you can find Account for YouTube section. And there you can choose File format.

• Standard: Standard quality mentioned above, FLV format.
• Best Quality: In fact, it should be "High Quality", well, it used to be best quality before HD YouTube videos come out, MP4 format.
• Mobile version: Mobile format mentioned above, 3GP format.
• HD: 720p high definition YouTube videos, MP4 format too.

Before downloading YouTube videos, you may need to specify YouTube video quality according to you need. As mentioned above, some YouTube videos are only available to those over 18. To download these YouTube videos, you may need to log in with your YouTube account first.

Sometimes there will be special characters in YouTube video HTML title and Any DVD Converter will fail to download or convert. In this case, please uncheck "Use HTML Title as output file name", it will solve the problem. Use system internal cache when downloading will help you to convert YouTube videos directly if they have been downloaded before and you haven't deleted the cache.

Convert YouTube videos for your iPod, iPhone, PSP and mobile phones

Now, you know how to download and convert YouTube videos. This YouTube video downloader and YouTube video converter allows you to download and convert YouTube Videos to video formats playable on iPod, PSP, iPhone, PSP and many other portable media players and mobile phones including Nokia N-series, Gphone and Blackberry as well as convert to WMV, AVI, MPG for further usage. If you select audio output formats, this YouTube video converter will extract audio and save as MP3, WMA, OGG, M4A, AAC or WAV.

Nico Video

Nico Video, or Niconico Douga, is second popular video sharing website in Japan while the first is still the YouTube video. To download Nico video, you have to log in your NicoVideo account first. Please refer to the picture above regarding sepcifying YouTube video quality.