YouTube.com with the aim of letting more people broadcast themselves favors a lot people. It gives people opportunity to share others people’s life and thoughts. However, many people especially the beginners to YouTube.com have problem with uploading files, download their interesting videos to computer, and enjoy them on their portable player.
This article is focus ways for you to get fun from YouTube.com. After reading this article, I am confident that you can gain great fun from YouTube.com.
1. Upload Video to Youtube
Before making video yourself and upload them to YouTube, we need to know the video formats supported by YouTube. YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats. And the best format to upload for high quality recommends your video follows the following settings:
MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format
320x240 resolution
MP3 audio
30 frames per second
What’s more, all videos uploaded to YouTube have a 100MB file size limit. The longer the video is, the more compression will be required to fit it into that size. For that reason, the best video size is under five minutes long, although there is a 10-minute length limit for all videos.
2. Download YouTube video and enjoy it on your computer:
It is a pity that one can't download directly YouTube videos to computer. YouTube's video player is designed to be used within your browser as an Internet experience.
However one can use third party software to download the videos. It is called Youtube downloader. There are many Youtube downloaders on the market and mostly they are freeware, such as Orbit Downloader, Biennesoft.
3. Enjoy YouTube video on iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune and other portable players.
There are two ways to realize the job.
(1) Use a free YouTube downloader to download YouTube videos and save them on your hard disc. Then find a conversion tool to convert the FLV files to the formats your player supported. For example, if you want to watch YouTube video on iPod, after downloading the files, you can use Wondershare video converter, imtoo MPEG Encoder, xilisoft ipod video converter to convert them for you. This way is a little bit complex.
(2) Recently, xilisoft.com released a program for people to enjoy YouTube video on on iPod, iPhone, Zune or other portable players with one step. It is called xilisoft YouTube video converter . The software offer "downloading + converting" one-step solution, one can easily download FLV videos from YouTube to play on iPod, PSP, mobile phone, Apple TV, Zune, iPhone etc.
4. Use the "downloading + converting" one-step Xilisoft YouTube Video Converter to download and convert YouTube video iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune or other portable players.
1) Download, install, and run Xilisoft YouTube Video Converter
2) Create new task: Either click “New” button or click “New Task” in “File” menu. Then the New Task windows will pops up. Copy and paste in the URL of the YouTube video that you want to download.
3) Click the droplist to select the best video format supported by your player.
4) Click “Browse” button where you want your files downloaded to.
5) Rename the output file (Optional)
If you want to rename the video, please uncheck the item “Use default file name” and enter the desired name.
6) Click “OK” to start download and convert.
After that, you can transfer the downloaded and converted files to you player and enjoy it.
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