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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Tips & Tricks........Save YouTube videos to your iPod

If you have a PC then you could use iTunes or QuickTime 7 Pro to convert videos to play on your iPod - see this Apple article on Creating Video for iPod. Also see this iPod Video Guide.
However, there are also online (i.e., in a website) video conversion applications which means you do not have to install anything on your computer. They also work with both PCs and Macs. I have been using MediaConverter (www.mediaconverter.org), and we can can use MediaConverter to download any YouTube video and save it on our iPod to watch again and again.
MediaConverter allows you to convert a YouTube video directly. Simply enter the web address of the video (see left).

Choose "mp4" as your selected file type (MPEG-4 video format).

When you get the converted video file, import it into iTunes (File->Add File to Library). It should appear under "Movies". Next time you sync your iPod the video will be copied to your iPod.

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