YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips online. if you want to get youtube video on iPod, Zune, PSP, Creative Zen and other mp3 players, you need to download youtube video to computer first, and here is guide to tell how to download free youtube video and transfer youtube video to iPod step by step

1.How to download free youtube video on computer
2.How to put Youtube video on iPod(iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Video, etc)

Part 1. How to save free youtube video to computer

Normally there are two ways to download free video from Youtube

1.With online Converter

Step 1. Open this website: http://www.zamzar.com. It's a free online FLV converter.(and there
are many other online converter that have the same function such as http://media-convert.com/,
http://vixy.net/, etc)

Step2. Then go to YouTube http://www.youtube.com and find a video that you love. Copy the URL that in the Red box. Like this format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qptta92yEoc&feature=dir

Step3. Switch to "Download Videos" tab on ZamZar, paste your video file URL to the input box (figure as follow), choose the right format you want. as you want to put youtube video on ipod, so you can select mp4 and convert your video direclty(MP4 is also fit for PSP, Zune, Apple TV and other MP4 players. This online converter also can rip audio to MP3.), then enter your email address to receive converted file, then click "convert" to start conversion



Step 4. After the conversion finished, check out the mailbox to get the video please.

Note:You can not convert the big video files using free online converters. It is up to 100MB. And the quality of the output files is just so so.

2.Download free Youtube With Mozilla Firefox browser
What we need:
Firefox browser
Video downloader(a free firefox plugin, lets you download embedded videos from youtube, google videos, metacafe, myspace, Blip.TV, ifilm, dailmotion and 60+ other video sites just by click of a small icon. You can also download a free FLV player from their site to play the videos. )

Step 1. free download and install the Video downloader extension tool for Firefox here
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Step 2. After installation, restart your Firefox browser, go to a YouTube page of your own choosing, you can see a small icon to the status bar at the bottom of the firefox window , just click that and you can download the video you are currently watching. this will then open up video downloader. simply click the "Download Link" tab to whichever videos you wish to download. It's very easy.

Note:Be sure that the download path for Firefox is set up to your personal preferences, you can selecting "Options..." from the "Tools" tab, this will bring up the Options menu. in the Options menu simply choose the desired save path for your files and then select "OK" to finish.

Step 3. Rename the file with FLV extension, something like video1.flv. you can play the video with FLV player. If you dont have FLV player, download and install the VLC player. The VLC package already includes software to play FLV files.

You can get VLC for Windows from this URL.

Part 2. How to Convert Youtube Video to iPod
If you have large files or download youtube video with Firefox, other free youtube downloader,(The Video downloaded from Youtube and other online video sites are all FLV files), you can't transfer them to iTunes for iPod directly, just free download Daniusoft Media to iPod Converter, it can easily convert youtube video(.FLV) to MP4 for iPod with simple steps

just click"Add" to import youtube Video, select "iPod Video MPEG-4(.MP4)" as output formats, then click " Start" to convert youtube video to iPod, it also supports batch conversion

Daniusoft Digital Media to iPod Converter is a powerful iPod Converter that can convert all DRM files like WMV WMA Napster Rhapsody, Napster, ruckus, Bearshare, Spiral Frog music to ipod and all popular non-DRM video music(WMV, WMA, WAV, MP3, AAC, OGG, APE, AVI, MOV, 3GP, RM, VOB, ASF, FLV, MKV, MKA etc) to iPod MP4, MP3.

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Part 3.How to put Youtube Video on iPod
Then just follow below steps to get Youtube Video on iPod:
1. Open iTunes and click "File" to add your videos to iTunes library.
2. plug in your iPod to computer, then iTunes will detect your iPod as a device.
3. Select your iPod device on the left panel of iTunes, click "Movies" tab, check the videos you want to sync and click "Apply"