This article will show you how to download video from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo and other video download website to iPod. Videos coming from those websites are streaming videos. You need special software to capture steaming videos. today we take YouTube video for example, write a guide on how to put YouTube video on iPod

This guide includes two parts:
1. Download free youtube video to computer
2. Put Youtube video on iPod

Part 1. Download free YouTube video to computer
It provides two ways:
1. with free online flv converter;
Step1. Open this website: http://vixy.net/. It's a free online FLV converter.

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=sdUUx5FdySs



Step3. Paste your video file URL to the input box (figure as follow), choose the right format you want. If you want to edit the video, AVI is a good choice. And MP4 is fit for iPod, PSP, Zune, Apple TV and other MP4 players. This online converter also can rip audio to MP3. Then wait for the conversion.





Step4. When the conversion finished, we got the download link of the output video. Click the download link to download the video and save in your computer (remember where you save it in). Done.




2. With Firefox

If you have Firefox browser, you can follow these steps.
Step1. Install the videodownloader extension. This is a free plug-in for Firefox. It enables you capture streaming video from website. Here is the Download link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390

Step2. After installing videodownloader, restart Firefox. In the bottom right, you'll see a little box. Go to the video you want to download, double click that little box, and select download link. Then you could download the streaming video you want. (Note, you have to rename the file extension from "html" to "flv")






You have to rename the file extension from "html" to "flv" when you save the link. (Make sure your compute is show file extension)




Part2. Put YouTube video on iPod

iPod can play MP4 video. If your downloaded YouTube video didn't fit the requirement, you can use Aimersoft iPod Video Converter to convert it

Step 1. Download and install Aimersoft iPod Video Converter, you can free download the latest version from here: http://www.aimersoft.com/tutorial/ipod-video-converter.html

Step 2. Run Aimersoft iPod Video Converter, click "Add" button to import your downloaded YouTube video, select output format for your iPod, then click "Start" to start the conversion, the default setting works perfect.

Step 3. After conversion finished. Then follow below steps to add video to iPod with itunes
1. Open iTunes and click "File" to add your videos music to iTunes library.
2. Then plug in your iPod to computer, iTunes will detect your iPod as a device. select your iPod on the left panel of iTunes, click "Movies" tab, check the videos you want to sync and click "Apply", done.

Tips. Aimersoft iPod Video Converter can help you to extract the music from YouTube to MP3 for your iPod, after you load YouTube video, in the main interface, select the output format as MP3, and then start conversion. If you want to get better music quality, you can select a higher audio bit rate and sample rate in the settings window.
After the conversion, drag the audio file to iTunes library, connect your iPod to your computer, select your iPod on the left panel of iTunes, click "Music" tab, check the music you want to sync and click "Apply", done.




If you do not want to use iTunes to add video, you can use the free iPod Copy Manager provides by Aimersoft iPod Video Converter; it can help you transfer the converted video to iPod directly without iTunes (The iPod Manager support only iPod Video now, but it will be upgraded soon, then it will support iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPod Classic). Just connect your iPod to computer, click "Tools" -> "iPod Copy Manager", then you will see a pop up window (See the figure below), the left pane is the video and music list on your computer, the right pane is the file list on your iPod (you also can copy files from iPod to computer, it's useful if your computer crashes or you lose iTunes library), select the files you want to sync and click the right arrow button to finish the transfer.