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    download/conversion of YouTube videos

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Pirx, May 3, 2010.

  1. Pirx

    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    I am looking for a tool (or website) that will allow me to download YouTube videos that are portable in the sense that they will play on any reasonably recent (XP or newer), plain vanilla Windows computer.

    So far I have found some IE toolbar that will download the video for me, but it leaves it in flash-video format (.flv). While those play fine in RealPlayer (or some other third-party player/codec combo), I want to be able to embed the video in PowerPoint presentations, and I want these presentations to be portable to any Windows machine. In my experience, the only way to achieve this portability is to convert the movie to plain mpeg format (.mpg, say). Also, I have found vixy.net, which is a website that converts the YouTube video to avi, but the problem is that the sound is lost.

    So, does anybody have a good solution for achieving what I described above? TIA!
     
    Pirx, May 3, 2010
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  2. Lanaya

    Lanaya Templar Assassin

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    downloading videos off of youtube violates their TOS, and so I don't believe you are allowed to discuss it here.
     
    Lanaya, May 3, 2010
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