Maybe the following description will be helpful to all readers who need to download video from YouTube portal and convert it to other formats, e.g. from .FLV format to .AVI, .AMV or .WMV formats, which can be used in MP4 players or other devices.

(Note: Don't forget you can download only your own videos or free public videos available for public download.)


How to download video from YouTube?

There are available many helpful freeware utilities or extensions for Firefox, but sometimes they doesn't work properly, so one of my favourites is VDownloader, which is able to download video as well as to convert it to .AVI or .MPG formats:

- VDownloader
"VDownloader can download and convert videos from Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace, DailyMotion, Yuvutu, and many other similar sites, saving them in AVI or MPG."


If you don't want to download and install the local application then you can try one of the following Web services where the video from YouTube can be downloaded via Web portal. The only problem is that all Web services are overloaded and they don't have very good response time:

- Online FLV Converter
This online service allows you to convert a Flash Video file (.FLV) from YouTube to MPEG4 or other formats (AVI, MOV, MP4, MP3, 3GP).

- VideoDL.org - Download Online Video
"VideoDL is a quick AJAX application which allows you to download online video into your computer. It supports top 3 video sites - YouTube, Google Video, and Break.com."


How to convert YouTube video from .FLV format?

This step could be skipped if the previously mentioned online video downloaders & convertors would be functioning properly or wouldn't be overloaded every day. Otherwise we have only downloaded video file from YouTube in .FLV format, which can be used only by a FLV Player.

The following FLV Converter can be used if you want to convert .FLV video to .AVI or other formats:

- FLV Converter (BitComet)
"BitComet FLV Converter is a small tool to convert between FLV and other media format, such as AVI, WMV, MP4, iPod, PSP, Mobile."



How to Convert other Media Files?

If you are looking for a complex solution how to convert video or audio files, how to convert video files to FLV, AVI or WMV, create MP3 files from videos, how to rip and burn DVD discs, then my suggestion is to use Replay Converter which is the easiest way with the highest quality output.