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Top 10 Online Video Conversion Services

cultcase.com — Did you know you don't have to be "on Youtube" to watch a Youtube movie? Instead, you can download the video stream to your computer, keep it there as a "normal" video file and watch it whenever you like. Nothing is illegal or fishy about it, it is simply another way of consuming the data.

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  • sassyt, on 02/28/2008, -20/+13Valuable resources! thanks :)
  • mellaart, on 02/28/2008, -20/+7Very useful!
  • videoblog, on 02/28/2008, -16/+5thanks for the link.
  • jontalisman, on 02/28/2008, -17/+5good find!
  • evernerve, on 02/28/2008, -19/+6Very useful stuff, thanks. I added it to my de.licio.us.!
  • jtm2480, on 02/28/2008, -15/+3Good intel!
  • omegaredIX, on 02/28/2008, -13/+4Thank god. Something useful.
  • SpectralSounds, on 02/28/2008, -13/+8That little kid rocked "Hey Jude".
  • IulianORG, on 02/28/2008, -17/+7nice article! I was searching for one.
  • jwk4heels, on 02/28/2008, -12/+3Nice! I've always wondered how I could do this without getting something like Camtasia and cutting the video out of another video of my whole screen and all that trouble.
  • ichchappycat, on 02/28/2008, -9/+4I usually use iSquint. It's simple, fast and easy and if I want I can control the quality, size, etc.
  • Falldog, on 02/28/2008, -12/+3If some of these can convert to flv for me, awesome.
  • MrFancy, on 02/28/2008, -15/+5A little mischievous, but cool!
  • doctechnical, on 02/28/2008, -8/+14My sock puppet is turgid with excitement.
    • bitterbug, on 02/28/2008, -3/+5That's just because you have your hand up it's ass. :)
    • yohnstoppable, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4I'm digging you up while pretending I know what "turgid" means
  • creganna, on 02/28/2008, -15/+4Gil said this was Great!!!!!--It was!!!!!!!
  • maxyRO, on 02/28/2008, -14/+5This it top notch, worth a bookmark
  • yohnstoppable, on 02/28/2008, -8/+37I thought it said conversation services. I'm so very, very, lonely /wrists
  • ileftfark, on 02/28/2008, -9/+2Good resource, but I always find these sites to be slow. I would recommend downloading (or at least checking out) Mencoder if you like to do this sort of thing a lot.
  • thrikulam, on 02/28/2008, -15/+3It is illegal, it explicitly says so in the YouTube TOS.

    Not that anyone cares. :)
    • coollettuce, on 02/28/2008, -2/+20TOS = Terms of Service
      Not law.
      • joegibes, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1..which means that if you violate the ToS, there are no legal penalties, but Youtube can legally suspend service to you (not sure how that works).
  • tispe, on 02/28/2008, -11/+1www.zigcam.com

    its a great video web chat community just thought i'd share
  • garywoo, on 02/28/2008, -13/+2Wow this is "really" useful.
  • Koskun, on 02/28/2008, -9/+28Holy Christ the bots have come again.

    Burried as spam.
    • deadcrickets, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4Yes and on the same exact day the paid, professional social networking submitters like msaleem submit too. Do a google search on msaleem one day. He hits EVERY social networking site. He talks about it on his blog and admits what he does too.
  • maeon3, on 02/28/2008, -10/+4First rule of fight club....
  • sleepygup, on 02/28/2008, -10/+1If you install the latest Real Player, it adds a plugin to the browser. This lets you download the youtube video from the main page itself. Its very convenient and simple. As of playing the video, the .flv format is recognizable by the Real Player.
  • finalcloud33, on 02/28/2008, -11/+4poop
    • sonicjosh, on 02/28/2008, -4/+1Youtube poop?? Cause youtube poop is funny, search for it. or I have a small playlist at youtube.com/sonicjoshalt
  • alpha94, on 02/28/2008, -10/+4dugg for zamzar, use it a lot for work
  • LingLing1337, on 02/28/2008, -10/+10Nice submission, been looking for a 2 year old article that doesn't deserve to hit front page and could easily be found by Googling "Online Media Converter"
  • Tyorant, on 02/28/2008, -8/+2Anyone else think the video of the kid sounded like Ike from South Park?
  • davidsmero, on 02/28/2008, -10/+4Why do i sense a mass bury?
  • joshuagor44, on 02/28/2008, -8/+1www.media-convert.com
  • funnick, on 02/28/2008, -7/+1I like using iDesktop.tv
  • sonicjosh, on 02/28/2008, -9/+3I've only used vixy before but it didn't always work; so this is a great help.
  • Ascendancy5, on 02/28/2008, -7/+1all2convert and converttube? Are these video conversion sites or religious sites?
  • someone173406, on 02/28/2008, -7/+1I got better ways.
  • Kumaku, on 02/28/2008, -5/+13Anyone notice the bots?
  • dewright23, on 02/28/2008, -5/+0I use the following tools. You can download ANY streaming flash video and convert to avi or mpg.
    http://www.orbitdownloader.com/ to download and www.flvtoavien.glt.pl to convert.
  • deadcrickets, on 02/28/2008, -9/+3spam
  • TheKingInYellow, on 02/28/2008, -4/+3vixy works like maybe 1 out of 100 times. it's incredibly unreliable.

    what is up with convert tube's gui? gross.
  • bitterbug, on 02/28/2008, -6/+1I'd add KeepVid.com to the list as well.
    It worked nicely when I was transferring some of my old vids over to metacafe and no longer had the originals. (Metacafe's own converter kept choking on the youtube URL's for some reason)
  • BuzzDiggity, on 02/28/2008, -7/+3this article is packed with solid research... not sure why the comments are so neg...
  • Daz3, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5There is a firefox plugin that has been around for over a year which allows you to download youtube videos...
    • antdude, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1Orbit Downloader as a third party download manager.
  • jamesov89, on 02/28/2008, -4/+1I use a program called tubetv . . .
  • Leetamus, on 02/28/2008, -2/+0I typically just take the link string to the flv file in the page source then download that and add the .flv extension, works great. These are even easier though, the one I just tried had an option to pick your output format which is awesome! One less step, good find.
  • CarStan, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1does this also work with redtube or pornhub?
    Can anyone recommend some sites?
    • sourceholder, on 03/02/2008, -0/+0I dunno about conversion, but I know qGrab.com enables downloads from redtube + others. You can convert later using progs, or upload to sites like Zamzar.
  • modbox, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Firefox plug-in: downloadhelper, the best.
  • 3leggedHorse, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2 Better youtube is the best downloader well for firefox anyway.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/646 ...
  • p00pd0g, on 02/29/2008, -2/+1forgot Videora, which is easily the best for the PC
  • say592, on 02/29/2008, -3/+1Zamzar has been a personal favorite for several months now. I always tell people to use it.

    Im not sure I would ever leave Zamzar to try one of those others lol
  • azher, on 02/29/2008, -1/+0nice one ah :)
  • kevyn, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1some genuis on digg directed me to www.idesktop.tv once and i've never looked back. you can create playlists easier and download with a nice interface
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