Using Safari 5 to Download YouTube Video for Your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch

Say Hello to Flash

Perhaps the most important and earth-shattering use of Flash on the Web - aside from terrible enchanting site intros - is the revolution Flash video caused on YouTube. Thanks to Flash, video on the Web ultimately went from from tiny, postage-stamp-sized jittery slideshows which never quite worked, to becoming a real part of the Web experience.

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Goodbye, Flash

But fortunately, standards move forward, and now, there's no more need for Flash to watch video on YouTube.

Thanks to Apple's newest Safari 5 browser, and a handy free extension, you can not only view any video quickly and seamlessly, you can download anyone size is available, drag it into iTunes, and have it playing on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch iOs gadget in minutes.

No conversion required. Yes, it's legitimately that simple.

Say Hello to h.264

Everything changed when YouTube adopted h.264 as a parallel accepted for YouTube.

You don't legitimately need to know all that - you just need to know that when Apple released the iPhone in 2007, Flash was not a part of it, but a fancy YouTube app was. At first, only a selection of YouTube videos was available in the new format for viewing on the iPhone. But gradually, the accepted took over, and now every video is available simultaneously in h.264 format on iOs devices, and through the Flash player on personal computers.

Changing of the Platform Connor McKay, on his great site "Vertical Forest," has just released a phenomenal prolongation for Safari called YouTube5. Basically, you can load it into the Safari 5 browser, go to YouTube, and see every video without Flash.

And, more importantly, if you own an iOs device, you can copy whichever size of the video you want, drag it into iTunes, and then onto your gadget for watching on the go.

Let's increase Your Safari

Ready to watch your videos on the go, without having to worry whether you have an unreliable At&T connection, or WiFi?

Follow these steps to take operate of your YouTube video watching: (These steps are basically the same, regardless whether you're on a Mac or Pc computer.)

If you're not already there, fire up Safari (if you don't already have it, you can download Safari from the Apple site), and then head over to the YouTube5 prolongation page on Connor McKay's Vertical Forest site.

Scroll down until you see this text:

The prolongation should modernize automatically to the new version. New users can download YouTube5 here.

Click on the link labeled "download YouTube5 here," and you'll see a box aking you whether you want to download the extension.

Click on "Save," and then the YouTube5 prolongation will download quickly.

Once it's downloaded, go to the "Downloads" window if it's not already graphic by clicking "Control-Alt-L" on a Pc, or "Command-Option-L" on a Mac.

Now, double-click the downloaded extension, labeled YouTube5.safarietz in the downloads window, and you'll see a dialog box request you if you're sure you want to setup the extension.

Of course, pick "Install."

A New YouTube Experience

Now, when you head back to YouTube, you'll see a new player - focus on the lowest of the video window - see how the player looks different? It now is a brushed metal grey, with a blue line indicating progress in the video, rather than red, as before.

Grabbing the Video

Notice the small "i" in the upper right hand angle of the video now? Just click that, and you'll see a selection of the sizes in which the video is now available for download.

Right click the one you want to save, and adopt "Download connected file as."

All videos are called "videoplayback.mp4" by default - you'll probably want to convert that name to something more meaningful. (In any case, make sure you don't convert the.mp4 extension!)

Save the file to your desktop, and then wait for it to download. Depending on the quality/size you've chosen, it could take a while to download the perfect video.

Because I download these videos myself to view on my iPhone, I usually pick 360p, which is fine for iOs gadget use.

Once the file has downloaded, I drag the video file into iTunes. The key is that there's no need to convert it, as it's already in the permissible format for viewing on your computer, and on all iOs devices.

By default, it will appear in the "Movies" area of your iTunes library. Right-click to "Get Info" on the file, and then convert the title to something more understandable for yourself.

Now just connect your iOs device, and drag the file over and sync it.

That's it - a pretty simple set of steps, and you can gain operate over when to watch the video you want to see!

Using Safari 5 to Download YouTube Video for Your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch

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