One website that internet users cannot do without visiting in a day is YouTube. It is one of the reasons why it is the second most visited website in the world. The reason internet users always have reason to visit YouTube every day or frequently is to have access to the latest trending videos as well as old and memorable videos. Due to work commitment or other reasons, you might miss your favorite program or an episode of your favorite series. Even if you miss an episode of your favorite program or an episode of your favorite series, but as soon as you have the opportunity of opening YouTube, you can rest assured that you will get to watch your missed program or your missed episode of the series you are following. When you open your YouTube application or website, you can search for your missed program so that you can meet up with what you have missed. What is even more interesting is that you can convert the video once you are able to locate it on YouTube and download the video to your device. Converting and downloading with an excellent platform does not last up to a minute. By downloading the video straight to your device, it becomes like your property, which you can have access to any time of the day.
If you must download a YouTube video, you should first know the platform to visit, then you should know how to go about it, and lastly, you should know the right format to pick to have your video converted very quickly and in the highest quality.
When we say you should know the platform to visit when you want to convert your video to a proper format and download it to your smartphone or laptop, what can be deduced from that statement is that you cannot download a YouTube video directly from YouTube website. You can only watch the video with your internet connection on YouTube. But there are some exemptions. For example, internet users that have premium YouTube subscriptions have access to download some YouTube videos. For you to be a premium subscriber, you have to pay 12 dollars to YouTube every month. But if you are not a premium subscriber, you cannot be able to download any video on YouTube.
It is the lacuna that these platforms that help internet users convert YouTube videos to their favorite formats and later download it straight to their smartphones and laptops have filed. They help you download your YouTube videos straight to your device, and most of them do not charge internet users. So the onus is on you to get a good platform when you want to download YouTube videos to your smartphone or laptop.
Choosing the right format is as important as choosing the right platform. When you choose the right format when converting your YouTube videos, it improves your video’s quality and longevity. On any platform you choose, you will come across a lot of formats like MP3, MP4, FLV, WEBM, AAC, 3GP, MPEG, and a whole lot of others. All these formats are suitable. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. But putting all the formats side by side and also considering what they offer your YouTube video when you choose anyone of them, none of these formats come close to offering what the MP4 format offers when you choose to download your YouTube video to mp4 to wav format.
Two advantages the MP4 format has over all other formats is compatibility. MP4 format is compatible with Linux, OS, Android, Windows, and a whole lot of others. It can also be viewed on every smartphone and laptop. Secondly, the MP4 format adds to YouTube video quality. The quality MP4 formats give to your video cannot be compared to what other file formats gives to your video. The reasons we chose MP4 as the best format for your YouTube videos are not limited to the two reasons we have mentioned; they are a lot of other reasons too, which we did not bring in order not to make this article excessively long for our readers.
Our aim at the beginning of this article is to tell our readers the best format to choose when downloading a YouTube video to their devices and the process to follow when any of our readers choose to download YouTube videos.
We have made the first point known; what is left is for us to explain how to download YouTube videos to MP4.
When you want to download a YouTube video or YouTube videos to your smartphone or laptop, the first thing you have to do is to open the YouTube website or the application if you already have it installed on your device. Use the ‘Search’ box at the top of the page to search for the video you want to download. When you type the title of the video in the search box, you will see different versions of the video. Choose the one you are satisfied with and copy the URL link. As soon as you copy the URL link, the next task will be on the platform you chose for converting and downloading your video.
Open the website of the platform. On most platforms, you will find a ‘Text’ box on the first page of the website. As soon as you locate the ‘Text’ box, you are required to paste the link of the video you copied from YouTube. The next step is for you to select a format. As we have said before, the MP4 format is the best for you. After choosing the MP4 format, click on ‘Convert.’ Wait for a few seconds for your video to be converted. However, the speed of conversion is based mostly on the chosen website and internet speed. As soon as your video has been successfully converted, you are required to click on the ‘Download’ button and choose a destination folder to save the video to your smartphone or laptop.
