Re: can you download vids. from youtube onto a chiPOD
 

Just been experimenting, and found that if you get the flv and bring it into MediaCoder:
* under "Picture" tick "resize", and dropdown to 128x96. If you hit the "resize" button, it will pop up a window, and you can check under "scale algorythm" what type of algorythm you want. Bicubic seems good, though there might be something better.

* Maybe tick on the "aspect ratio" => "4/3" just to be sure.

* Under "Video", boost up the bitrate as high as you want.

The end result is an avi that, when fed into the amv converter, gives a MUCH better result than feeding it in at 320x240. So flv DOES seem to be able to give a very nice result, if processed correctly, no need to download the much larger source avi/mpg.

PS. I just found that 128x96 plays nicely on my player, the extra space top and bottom is filled with a black background, so no need to letterbox to 128x128. And much smaller filesize.
Your results may vary.

try firefox and use Videodownload. go to the tools and add extensions and type videodownloader in firefox search box

Used the vDownloader to download and encode to avi, and then to my mp4 players format (smv) worked perfect, I got some nice Ayumi Hamasaki Videos now :D

Ayumi <33

Re: can you download vids. from youtube onto a chiPOD
 

i have been using the site media convert for my conversions.
its a site which converts many files into other files including a youtube URL into an AMV which you can then download.

all you have to do is put in the URL and find FLV, then scroll down and select an output (AMV)

camtheman2005

http://www.youtubex.com/ Enjoy