Convert YouTube Videos With Video Piggy
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My name is Michal Pleban and I would like to tell you a little bit about Video Piggy, what it does, and why I created it.
A few weeks ago, my niece needed to prepare a presentation for her college. She didn’t want to create another boring PowerPoint slideshow, so she decided to spice it up with some videos from YouTube. So, she came to me (she knows I’m a technology geek, so I should know the answer), and asked: How do I download YouTube videos to my computer?
At first, I thought it would be simple. But when I tried, I was stunned. You can watch YouTube videos as much as you want, but there is no “Download” button anywhere! They just didn’t provide any way to download these videos.
I started asking in forums, and soon found out that many people had the same problem as me. Then I thought — why not find a way to download these videos so that everyone benefits?
I needed to hurry, because the presentation had to be ready in a week. It took me three nights to figure out how to do it, but, well, I’m a geek anyway, so it was fun :-) After three nights of thinking and programming, I came up with my own YouTube video downloader!
But downloading the video does not suffice. If you are familiar with sites like YouTube, you might know that the videos are stored there in a so-called “Flash Video Format” (FLV). They are not AVI or MPEG files, so you can’t do anything with them! You cannot play them in Media Player, you cannot embed them in your PowerPoint presentation, you practically cannot do anything. That’s why my software not only downloads YouTube videos, but converts them to many useful formats as well!
(requires Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista)
Here are some things you can do with my software:
- Download videos from YouTube and put them on your computer.
- Convert the videos to AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV and 3GP video formats, for easy playback on your computer and DVD player.
- Extract the soundtrack from the video to an MP3 file.
- Embed the videos in a PowerPoint presentation.
- Import the videos to your iPod, Zune, Sony PSP or other portable media player.
- Listen to music videos on your MP3 player.
- Put the videos on your mobile phone.
5 Comments
Doug
July 2nd, 2008
at 4:35am
I’m not one to complain much on blogs but I have to with this post. Nowhere in this post or on the ORIGINAL referring page does it say what “Video PIggy” costs, until when you click on “Download Now.” I HATE it when developers lure us in and then charge us money. Using a combination of browser settings and FREE software, you can do the exact same thing that this program does for $24.95.
I know I am assuming, but when a developer doesn’t advertise the cost of a program, I think it’s free. Maybe that is my fault.
I’m sorry Michal. I’m sure the program is great but it will not be seeing the desktop of my computer. Advertise the cost of a program before you ask people to download it.
I find it very ironic that one of the “Further Reading” posts attached to this post is for “Free FLV Converter v4.6.”
http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2008/05/08/free-flv-converter-v46/
BrokenSword
July 2nd, 2008
at 6:02am
Well… It’s easy actually… all you have to do is download Real Player. When you will put your cursor over a video a Download now or something will appear. an alternate way is to download Youtube Music Downloader. It downloads youtube videos and allows you to convert them to mp3, avi, mpg, wmv, mov, mp4 and 3GP (for your phone). It is a real cool program.
Tim
July 2nd, 2008
at 11:10am
…or just download the Downloadhelper addon for Firefox. There’s very few kinds of data (audio,vid,text,etc.) it won’t catch. Right now I’m recording a college radio station broadcasting from Europe.
Diane Lazarus
July 3rd, 2008
at 10:05am
I wanted to take a look at this program but there’s not even a free trial. I don’t pay for ANYTHING that I can’t try out first!
Rusty
July 9th, 2008
at 7:49pm
Hello everyone i have a simple and easy solution to your problems if you simply want to download a youtube video for any purpose you can do the following for FREEEEEEEE
1. look up a video on you tube that you want
2.Once that page loads go into the the url and type “kiss” after “www.” (ex. ORIGINAL http://www.youtube.com/jkdjhfsknag FINAL http://www.kissyoutube.com/jkdjhfsknag)
3. You are now on the “kiss youtube page” simply press go and it will start to download or if you need it in any specific format scrool down to the bottom of the page and click ” Convert to Other Video Formats ”
Hopefully this helps you out
RUSTY
RUSTYNAIL1103@gmail.com