How to convert videos from Youtube ?

YouTube has millions of videos in their collection. All these videos are willingly uploaded by their registered users for the purpose of sharing them to the world. Unfortunately, YouTube does not have a download option for you to download and save the Youtube videos to your PC. This is probably because they want to keep the visitors to continually visit YouTube every time they want to watch their favorite videos. Of course, if you want your site to gain great traffic, you must not include anything that would prevent them from coming back any time soon.

Fortunately, there are already many YouTube downloaders sprouting everywhere. With the millions of YouTube videos, it’s definite that you would find some that you would wish to save and keep on your PC. Because of these YouTube downloaders, you can now download as many of these YouTube videos as you want and store those YouTube flv videos on your computer.

YouTube videos are set as .flv video files, otherwise known as flash video, because they encrypt their videos as flash and they uses Macromedia Flash Player. For these reason, you would need to convert those .flv files to other readable file formats if you want to watch them on your iPods, DVD players, or other video players. The best choice of video format is MPEG because it is readable by most, if not all, video players out there.

So, how do you convert .flv video files to MPEG?

YouTube downloaders are either free or can be bought for a small fee. Some of these paid YouTube downloaders also includes .flv to .mpeg converter. This makes it a lot easier and quicker to convert the video files. With free versions of YouTube downloader, you would have to go through a 3-step process if you want your video files to be converted to MPEG. Most format converters that you could find can convert .flv files quickly to .avi files but can not convert them right away to .mpeg. With this, some people are already panicking because they have reached a dead end. This is where your knowledge with the ins and outs of the World Wide Web really comes in. Unfortunately, not everyone loves the internet very much that’s why even the simplest of tasks make them burst in tears already as they can not do it by themselves. For these people (the majority), the YouTube downloaders that can be purchased online, complete with all these features may be the best choice. As for the rest, finding the appropriate video converters offered for free is still the best choice.

Converting .flv files to .avi is the quickest and the easiest way to convert .flv to .mpeg. First, you must download a converter to do this task. You may search for an .flv to .avi converter through various search engines or to be safe, just go and visit www.download.com and on the search box located on the upper right hand side of the screen, type in the words .flv converter and they will give you a list of software that may be the one that you need. Read their descriptions first before you decide to download. Then, install the software and convert your .flv video to .avi.

There is one quick way of converting .AVI files to .MPEG but depends on your operating system. You could try playing the .AVI video on your Microsoft Windows Media Player then click on “File” and then click on “Save As” and put the .mpeg at the end of your title. If this works for you then you’re lucky but sometimes it doesn’t work depending on your Media Player and OS. If this does not work for you, you would need to find another converter that would convert .avi to .mpeg. This process may take awhile though depending on the length of the video you wish to convert. Downloading .flv files are a lot quicker compared to converting .avi to .mpeg.

With the information stated above, you can now capture YouTube videos direct from the YouTube website and enjoy your collection of videos not just on your PC but even on your TV or iPod as well.