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YouTube Downloader: Back to the basics

Trend in software development is now to focus on specific features, and do them well and efficiently. YouTube Downloader is one of those applications, focused on one unique function, and being the best in it. With no doubts, it is absolutely mandatory for YouTube fans.

Use: simply paste the URL of the video to be recorded, and select the destination folder. By activating the increased speed case, download time can be further improved.

YouTube Downloader is compatible with recent FLV files (On2 vp6 video FLV, H.263, H.264 video FLV and audio FLVs), so that there will not be any compatibility issue.

To download this software, go to: Youtube Downloader.

Transferring YouTube videos to your PC is a piece of cake

YouTube is becoming the new television for those generations growing up during the Internet revolution. The difficult part about using YouTube has always been wading through the many, many videos to find exactly the one you want amongst the multitude of similar ones. As such, ‘zapping’, or channel surfing, has become the norm on YouTube but it’s still annoying not to be able to save some of those videos so that you can carry them around with you on your multimedia player or mobile phone, where Internet access isn’t as easy, quick or cheap as it is at home.

Now, with Easy Video Downloader, you can do just that; all you need to do is copy the web address of the YouTube (or MySpace) page, paste it into the corresponding dialog box and select the video’s destination folder and its format. You can choose between a high-quality format and another adapted for mobile devices and multimedia players.

Once you’ve followed these steps, just click on the start button and, in a matter of seconds or minutes (depending on your Internet connection, the speed of your computer and the type of file you’ve chosen) you’ll have the YouTube or MySpace content saved in the local folder on your computer.

Easy Video Downloader 2.o

A spartan appearance, but it can handle anything

Despite its fairly minimalist appearance, this program is one of the most complete when it comes to downloading videos from web pages such as YouTube or MySpace. As well as letting you use the URL of the videos as the download source, it also has a built-in mini-browser which directly accesses the web pages of the online video services, along with a handy button to start downloading to your hard disk the video that is playing in the main window of whichever of the compatible multimedia portals VDownloader is using.
It is compatible with sites ranging from YouTube and MySpace to others such as Stage 6 (recently closed down), 123 Video, Google, Lulu TV and MegaVideo, among others. As if that wasn’t enough, it also provides a menu with options for selecting the video format to use when saving the video downloaded from the online source to your hard disk. The choices range from the un-encoded format, as downloaded from the web page, to formats specific to iPod or other portable devices such as the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, not forgetting the format optimised for PSPs and those for generic 3G mobile phones. It’s also possible to only encode the audio, into MP3 format, which is a very useful option if you’re learning a foreign language and just want the audio to help you improve your listening skills. This is practically a must-have program for all addicts to the “new television” of the Internet.

More VDownloader.

If you’ve got an iPod, make sure you’re the fastest on the block…

Apple’s iPod devices, and even their iPhones – if you happen to have already got your hands on one of these telephone/multimedia players – aren’t particularly user-friendly when it comes to loading movies onto them. Many videos aren’t compatible with these multimedia players and the conversion tools provided with iTunes are neither the fastest nor the most versatile. The specific version of Mobiola Video Studio for iPod/iPhone speeds up enormously video conversion tasks, even when working with YouTube multimedia content. Whether you drag and drop, browse through the file explorer or enter the URL of the YouTube video directly, the software provides you with a video which is compatible with and adapted for the screen sizes of Nano, Classic or Touch iPods or the iPhone. You can also choose to only copy the files to the hard disk so that you can convert them later.

It’s possible to pick the final quality of the video and even to chop it up into chunks of predefined sizes for when it’s difficult to work with large file sizes. The conversion is done quickly, and you can optionally display a preview window to keep an eye on the process and make sure it’s all going well.

Moviola Video Studio.