How To Convert YouTube Videos Using Any Video Converter

Posted by dkszone on April 1, 2010

There are several freeware that allow you to download and convert YouTube videos, including YouTube Downloader, the powerful all in one player & downloader Miro, YouTube MP3 Audio Ripper, or even one of those YouTube Downloader Firefox extensions. In case you already have the feature rich ‘Any Video Converter’ installed on your PC, then you don’t need any of the above mentioned programs.

Any Video Converter is a very versatile video conversion software, that can effortlessly convert between multiple formats. This free video converter, already featured in our pick of 5 best free video converter software, has advanced features such as video trimming, video merging, batch conversion of files, and support for downloading and conversion of online videos from YouTube, Google, and NicoVideo.

Here are the steps for using Any Video Converter (Free version) to download and convert YouTube videos.

1. Download and install Any Video Converter Free if you do not have it yet on your PC. (Link given below). Run the program.

2. Click on ‘YouTube’ button in the top toolbar of Any Video Converter, and paste the URL of the video that you want to download. Click ‘OK’ to add this URL to the list.

Note that though this button is labeled for ‘YouTube’, you can also download and convert videos from Google, and NicoVideo using this feature.

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3. Towards the right of the top toolbar, you will find a drop down menu for selecting the conversion ‘Profile’. Click on this menu, and select from one of the several available profiles. Here is a list of all available video conversion formats in Any Video Converter Free:

Mobile Phone MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4)
Flash Video Movie (FLV)
Flash SWF
DVD Video NTSC Movie (MPG)
DVD Video PAL Movie (MPG)
MPEG-1 Movie
MPEG-2 Movie
AVI
WMV
MP4
ASF
Matroska Movie (MKV)
M2TS Movie

Apart from the above listed video formats, Any Video Converter can also rip only the audio portion of a video and save it in several commonly used audio, including MP3, OGG Vorbis, WAV, AAC, MPEG-4, and WMA.

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4. After choosing a conversion profile, you can further tweak it’s settings such as the output video duration (start and end times), video codec, video frame size, bit rate, frames per second, audio bitrate, audio channels, audio codec, and so on. You can completely disable audio, if you like.

Once you are satisfied with the video and audio conversion settings, click ‘Convert’ in the toolbar. Any Video Converter supports batch downloading and conversion of YouTube videos. So add as many videos as you like before you hit the ‘Convert’ button.

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5. First the entire video is downloaded from YouTube to your hard disk. During downloading, the video URL is shown in red.

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6. Once the download is complete, Any Video Converter displays the details of the video, including duration, it’s format, frame size, and FPS (frames per second). The conversion process is automatically started without your intervention.

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7. After conversion is successful, you can preview the video by playing it in Any Video Converter’s built in media player. In the below screenshot, you can one of our YouTube Videos, the Bose Companion 2 Series 2 review, having been converted to AVI format and played in Any Video Converter.

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