How to Download and Convert YouTube Video

Step by Step Guide for YouTube Downloader and Converter

This basic tutorial is not a comprehensive instruction manual. It only teaches you the few simple features you need to know to start using Sothink YouTube Downloader and Converter. From there, you'll quickly discover most of the other features of the programs yourself.

Step 1:　Launch YouTube Downloader and Detect Any Playing Videos in Any Web Browser

Download and install Sothink YouTube Downloader following the instruction of the setup file. Open your web browser -- it could be Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon, and etc. Browse to YouTube and watch a video you are interested in. A notification will pop up from the right bottom corner when the live video is captured. You can preview the video or download it directly from there.

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Step 2: Start a New YouTube Download Task

Click on the notification to start a new download task. In this window, user could set up "Save to" address, "File name", and "Target format". This target format includes general video audio formats and device-ready formats one click away. And then hit OK.

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Step 3: Download and Convert YouTube Videos

Click "Start" on the main interface. The YouTube Downloader will start to download videos from YouTube. After finishing downloading, YouTube Downloader will automatically start to convert YouTube FLV video to your designated format, like MP4 or Zune WMV. Notice that, batch downloading is supported by Sothink YouTube Downloader.

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Well, considering user may want only a clip of the video or want them convert to more comprehensive video and audio formats, Sothink Free YouTube Converter might suits your needs. You could easily find a clue to convert YouTube video to other video formats or various audio formats, and don't even have to turn to guide center for help.

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Step 4: Transfer YouTube Videos to Your Portables

The downloaded and converted files could be found in saved path. To transfer YouTube videos to your mobiles and portables, upload to your blog to share with friends or just back up for enjoying anytime on PC. It's totally up to you!

What are you looking for in YouTube Downloader and Converter?

Sothink YouTube Downloader is software that live capture YouTube video playing on various web browsers, like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon and etc. It allows you to download videos from YouTube, including high definition videos, Facebook, Revver, MySpace video, Viemo, Google video, and many more. And convert them for iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, MP3/MP4 player and all kinds of smart phone in one step.

Sothink Free YouTube Converter is a professional YouTube Converter which is designed to convert between almost any video formats, such as AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, VOB, MPEG, FLV, 3GP/3GP2/3GPP, TS/MTS/M2TS, SWF and etc. Besides that, Free YouTube Converter also serves as audio converter and video to image converter. It can extract audio from video and save in any desired formats like MP3, AC3, AAC, WAV, WMA, M4A, RAM, OGG, AIF, AIFF, APE and FLAC. All-round output video and audio parameters are available for you to adjust to get the perfect play effect on the whole range of popular mobiles and portables, including video/audio codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution, aspect ratio, to name a few.

So what are you waiting for to download and convert YouTube video right now?

What Formats and Devices Does YouTube Video Converter Support?

Supported Import Files Formats	Video	AVI, MP4, MPG, MPEG, WMV, ASF, MKV, RM, RMVB, MOV, QT, M2TS, M2T, MTS, TS, M1V, M2V, M4V, DAT, VOB, MOD, DV, 3GP, 3G2, 3GP3, 3GPP, FLV, F4V, OGM, H.264
Supported Import Files Formats	Audio	MP3, MPA, MP2, M4A, MP4, WMA, RA, RAM, AAC, M4A, M4B, AC3, WAV, AU, APE, FLAC, CDA, OGG
Supported Output Files Formats	Video	AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, TS, FLV, SWF, ASF, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, DV
	Audio	MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG, MKA, FLAC, WAV, AIF, AU
	Image	JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, animated GIF
Supported Devices	iPad 2, iPad, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPhone 4, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360, Zune, Wii, Blackberry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Google Android, Nexus One, Samsung, Motorola, etc.

System Requirements

: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7; Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2007/2008; 1GHz Intel/AMD processor or above; 256 MB RAM (512 MB or above recommended)

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