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Guide to downloading YouTube videos onto your iPhone/iTouch

  • 16-05-2009 1:22pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭


    Here's a quick guide to getting YouTube videos downloaded and converted to play on your iPhone/ipod touch.

    Ingredients:
    1 x Firefox Browser
    1 x Plugin called DownloadHelper
    1 x Add-on for DownloadHelper called, cunningly enough, Converter
    1 x iPhone or ipod Touch
    1 x iTunes

    Method:

    Install Firefox and get the DownloadHelper plugin.

    From the Tools menu of Firefox, go to DownloadHelper->Preferences.

    Select the Conversion tab.

    From there, download and install the converter software.

    Once all of this is installed, still in the Conversion tab, click the "Configure Conversion Rules" button.

    Delete the rule that is all ready there and create a new one.

    In the Input box, set the "files with extension" to flv (if it isn't already set).

    In the output, set it to iPod (note, MP4 doesn't work for some reason).

    Click the "Details" button and change the extension to MP4

    Browse to your favourite video on YouTube, and you will see a small icon that resembles three, um, balls (red, blue, yellow).

    Click this, and your video will be downloaded and converted.

    Once that is done, open iTunes, go to Movies.

    Drag and drop your .mp4 video into iTunes, sync, and away you go.

    Note: if the file does not appear in Movies after you drag and drop, iTunes doesn't like it, so it won't transfer to your iPhone/touch. Double-check your conversion settings.


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