We all know that Youtube has awesome videos, but copyright infringement claims and DMCA take-down notices mean that any given video can disappear at any time. Having a local copy of the video means you won’t lose access if YouTube removes the video from their site.
You can also convert the video to MP4 format, and transfer it to your iPod as well.
Not only Youtube, but many other video sites like Dailymotion, ifilm, metacafe offer similar video content.
Doing this appears to be in compliance with YouTube’s Terms of Use, as long as you do not distribute the videos to others, and you retain any copyright notices on the files.
The are 4 things we can do to watch these videos and/or storing it our disks.
- Watch the video as it is in the website.. pretty simple this
- Download the video using Keepvid or the mozilla Add-on called Videodownloader. This downloaded video is in FLV format.
- Watch the Video on your disk using FLV player or VLC player.
- Convert the FLV files into mp4 format using iTube. This takes the youtube url,downloads the video, and converts it into mp4 fromat.The videos in mp4 format can be put in our Ipods!
