What can I use to convert you tube videos to Itunes files?

[beowulff]

@Iolanthe

Will any of these work in the opposite direction? As in, I have some itunes video files that I want to convert so I can burn them onto a DVD that is playable in a standard DVD player?

Purchased videos?
These are protected by DRM, and are somewhere between difficult and impossible to convert. I’ve never found a way to do it.

[Acsenray]

Viddyup and Tooble don’t seem to work any more. What are the current recommendations?

[BigT]

@acsenray

Viddyup and Tooble don’t seem to work any more. What are the current recommendations?

Video Download Helper seems to have the highest popularity and ratings of all the Firefox addons for this purpose–and those work on both Macs and PCs.

[Acsenray]

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve successfully installed the DownloadHelper extension in Mozilla, but using it for conversion apparently requires something called ffmpeg. I went to the website for ffmpeg, but I can’t make heads or tails of it, how to downoad, install and use it.

[Starving_Artist]

Online Video Converter is easy-peasy. OVC downloads the files and then converts them from its own site and then lets you download the converted files to your computer. From there you can have iTunes pick them up and list them in your library.

I’ve found that it works best to create a folder on my desktop (though it could be filed anywhere) and have the program download songs into it. That way iTunes can always find the songs. It often can’t locate them if you move them to another location and then you have to reload them into iTunes from their new location.

[zbuzz]

@acsenray

Viddyup and Tooble don’t seem to work any more. What are the current recommendations?

I’d recommend installing the ClickToFlash extension for Safari. It will automatically load YouTube videos in h.264 which you can right-click on and choose “Download video” and it will download as a native .mp4 file that should play fine in iTunes.

[Simplicio]

Mac OS probably loads the entire video in one of your /tmp files when you play it in your browser. So if you want to download it without messing around with new software, you can probably google for the location in a minute or two (I’d do it for you, but I think it depends on what version of the OS you have).

[Rick]

@tanstaafl

Try this.

Go to the YouTube video you want, say

LOST! Opening Credits (1967) - YouTube

Replace the “y” in the url with a “3” like this

3outube.com

You will be given the opportunity to download the video as either a .mp4 or .flv file. You should be easily able to get it to an iPod from there.

Sorry, we couldn’t find www.3outube.com
You sure about that?

[11811]

@acsenray

I’ve been using ViddyUp! for a while to convert YouTube and other flv video files to Itunes videos. But it’s started running into problems and Splasm hasn’t produced an update in years, so I’m looking for other options. Any suggestions?

Tooble

[Acsenray]

As I noted in Post 22, Tooble no longer works reliably. I often get a failure.

[Apex_Rogers]

@Rick

Sorry, we couldn’t find www.3outube.com
You sure about that?

Note that you’re replying to a post that’s over a year old. Evidently the site went belly-up in the meantime.

[jackdavinci]

@acsenray

As I noted in Post 22, Tooble no longer works reliably. I often get a failure.

Did you update? Although the downloads window on mine is a little wonky it still actually downloads.

[Acsenray]

Yep. I updated.

[jackdavinci]

I’m starting to have trouble with Tooble. I’m finding keepvid to be very useful in it’s demise especially with it’s handy bookmarks bar button.