Convert YouTube Videos To Animations GIF

If you want to convert YouTube videos to a GIF animation and share the animation with your friends/colleagues here is a simple solution from Gickr.

Gickr is a free online service that allows you to convert YouTube videos to GIF animations. The output animations of Gickr can be easily downloaded to your computer and shared with your friends/colleagues.

To convert a YouTube video to GIF animations

* Copy URL of the YouTube video which you want to convert and paste it in Gickr Conversion Page
* Choose the size and the number frames of output animation(you can leave it to default selections)
* Click on the next button

That's all! Gickr will automatically generates the GIF image and provides you options for downloading the GIF or embedding it in your website or blog.

If you want convert from diferrent movie format, you can convert it to *.FLV file and you can convert !

Download and convert Youtube video online with Catchvideo

Catchvideo.net is an online web2.0 service which can download and convert Youtube video to different formats.

There are a lot of web services which can capture and convert Youtube video. I had cover a few of them in my previous post (download youtube very easy - but software that you use must a license) . Catchvideo is a service which similar with them, but comes with more user-friendly interface.

To use Catchvideo, simply provide the URL of Youtube video and choose the format (it support mpeg, mov, mp4, 3gp, mp3, and flv). After that, hit the “Convert and download” button. Normally it take only 1 minute for the conversion. After the conversion, you will get a link to download the video to your local hard drive.

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Extract, Record and Download MP3 from YouTube and raaga.com

Sometimes you may wish to extract the mp3 audio from a video in YouTube, Yahoo Videos, Metacafe, ifilm or some songs sharing sites like raaga.com. There are lot of ways by which we can download YouTube or any flash videos using web browser, but we may not be able to directly extract audio alone from those flash videos. Most of the audio sharing sites stream audios to play at users browser with the help of realplayer or windows media player and does not allow its users to download those songs to their computer.

Here is a work around to extract and record audio from flash videos and to download mp3 playing sites.

First of all you need to install FreeCoder Toolbar for your browser.

Then, click the settings button in the FreeCoder Toolbar and then select your preferred recording drivers and the location where recorded mp3 to be saved.


Then just goto your favorite video or mp3 playing site and press record button in the toolbar to record when the song starts playing.


Once the playing is completed press stop button on the toolbar to stop recording then you will have your recorded mp3 audio copy in the location specified in the Freecoder toolbar settings.

Go ahead and download your FreeCoder Toolbar now.

How to Embed YouTube in Winamp

I found this trick Embedding YouTube in Winamp on Life Hacker. You will like it.


A reader of Lifehacker Justin writes

To add YouTube to Winamp, close Winamp and add the following lines to the bottom of the ml_online.ini configuration settings file (C:\Program Files\Winamp\ Plugins\ml\ml_online.ini):

ElementId11=8000
ElementIcon11=11002
ElementSubbed11=1
ElementName11=Youtube
ElementURL11=http://youtube.com/?cmd=mini

You should also remove this line: ElementID10=-1, save the file, and restart Winamp. When you do, YouTube should be embedded in your Online Services options.

[Via Life Hacker]

Download videos from YouTube, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, ifilm, metacafe with new realplayer

You can find different approaches for downloading your favorite videos from YouTube, just by googling it. Here is a new approach for downloading is not only applicable to YouTube, but its applicable to all similar sites like Google videos, Yahoo videos, ifilm, metacafe etc.

It is very simple way of downloading flash videos from internet. Only thing you need to do is to install latest RealPlayer and enable the plugins that are coming for both internet explorer and Firefox (by default these plugins will be enabled).

Once you are done with the installation you need to restart your web browsers and then visit any of the favorite videos in YouTube, Google videos, Yahoo Videos, ifilm, metacafe etc and just keep the mouse pointer over the video that is playing. Now, you will get a menu for downloading that particular flash video using RealPlayer.

Just click and download. Done!. Now you have your favorite video from YouTube in your personal computer. Either you can install free FLV players available or you can install the FLV plugin for Windows Media Player.

Download all New RealPlayer 11.

How To Extract Audio From YouTube Videos

I have mentioned earlier on how to download YouTube Videos and save them on your computer inorder to view the videos offline. The videos are saved in a .flv extension that can be played with a FLV player.

What if you want to rip audio from YouTube videos? Or want to covert any FLV file to AVI,MOV,MP4 or MP3 format ?

With the Online FLV Converter at Vixy, you can convert YouTube videos in other formats like AVI, MOV and MP4 or convert the video as an audio only file in the MP3 format. Vixy also lets you covert any FLV file to AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3 format online.

When you submit an URL, this service will download and convert the video to your desired format and lets you download the converted file. Vixy allows you to download online videos direct to PC, iPod and PSP for free.

The above trick can also be applied to other video sharing web sites like Google Video and MetaCafe.

If the YouTube Video is on your hard disk as an FLV file, you can use the free FLV Extract utility to extract audio and video from FLV files. The video is saved as AVI and the audio is saved as MP3.

How To Load YouTube Videos Faster

If you are on a slow internet connection, you might have noticed YouTube videos getting stuck. The solution to this is to use SpeedBit Video Accelerator. This software will make your YouTube videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a product from the creators of Download Accelerator Plus (DAP).


How SpeedBit Video Accelerator works

When you are watching a video on YouTube, SpeedBit Video Accelerator will open multiple connections to the video file hosted on YouTube servers and will download the video parts simultaneously so you are less likely to suffer those video buffering issues.

See here for more info on how it works.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator Features

* Reduce YouTube ‘movie freezes’ and ‘buffering’ problems
* Accelerates embedded YouTube videos around the web (MySpace.com, Blogger etc…)
* Includes a cool search feature for finding videos around the web right from your desktop!
* Bookmarks videos you have accelerated for easy replays

System Requirements

OS: Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP
Browser: Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, FireFox 1.5, FireFox 2.0

I could not try out this useful software as it does not work on Windows Vista

What to do if SpeedBit Video Accelerator does not work for you?

If this software does not work for you and you still want to watch YouTube videos smoothly, just press the Pause button on the YouTube player and wait till the whole video is downloaded to your computer.

After the full video is available in your browser’s cache, you can watch the video smoothly

You may also download the YouTube video to your computer and save it as a FLV file on your hard disk. To view FLV files, download the FLV player.

How To View Deleted YouTube Videos

If you have used YouTube before then you will have surely come across this message “This video is no longer available” and have probably been disapointed. That’s the message you see when they remove a copyrighted video clip from YouTube.

It is now possible to watch deleted videos on YouTube with Delutube as long as YouTube maintains a copy of the video on their servers. Delutube also lets you view random deleted videos.
To view the deleted video, just supply the YouTube video id and Deltube may retrieve the deleted video from YouTube for you.

Download YouTube Videos very easy

While there are tons of tricks that let you download flash videos from Youtube or Google videos in either FLV or AVI format, IDM (internet download manager) is new player in this game with a difference.

With IDM, you can download Youtube, google..video quickly and very easy. But this software is not free. The price of this software is $24.95 (version 5.12 final). OK, now i show you how to download youtube, google video.
Step 1: Open IDM
Step2: Choice Option
Step 3: In filetype tab, you type FLV on Automatically start downloading the following file types then OK

Step 4: Open link youtube video, you'll have a option. Click Download for download this video from youtube (or google video..)

Note: You can download more format file (ex: mp3, exe, images..) with this way by type on Automatically start downloading the following file types more filetype.
Hope you sucessful !!!

Download Youtube Videos As iTunes MOV or MP3 Files Directly

While there are tons of tricks that let you download flash videos from Youtube or Google videos in either FLV or AVI format, Vixy.net is a new player in this game with a difference.

With Vixy, you can download Youtube videos directly as a Quicktime video or a audio-only file (MP3 format). Vixy will effectively extract the audio portion from the Youtube video for you.

When you submit an url, this service will download and convert the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

And like Keepvid, you still have the option to download in the standard Windows AVI format with the DivX codec or the MP4 format for the video iPod.

Apart from Youtube Videos, Vixy can help you covert any FLV file to AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3 format online.

FLV Online Converter [ Thanks Sridha Reena ]