Download videos from Youtube in your preferred format

Youtube has an excellent collection of videos ranging from movie songs to speeches by Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and so on. If you have been wondering how you could see them offline and if it is possible to convert them in your preferred format like .mpg, .avi, .wmv etc from that strange looking .flv extension. There are many options available over the Internet but few are very straight forward and really easy to use.

One of these website that enable you to download videos not only from Youtube but from other video hosting websites like Google Video, iFilm (now known as Spike) etc, is Video Downloader. It gives you all three solutions to your requirement of downloading, converting and viewing offline it on a media player like Windows Media Player or VLC.
All you need to do is provide the url of the song you want to download and select the website from the drop down box provided, from where you are trying to download the video.

Few other good website are Download Youtube Videos (only Youtube) and http://www.videodl.org/

Another interesting website is OUIDEO that lets you even search for Youtube videos, play and download too as .mp4 file.
One more great website is FilePop that saves you one step for converting the video from .flv to your choice of format. You can simply provide the url of the youtube video and choose what format you want to download it as, and it gets you the video in that format.