YouTube Videos on your iPod
A new shareware application called TubeSock lets you save YouTube videos to your iPod, PSP or iTunes library. The application, which is Mac-only, converts any YouTube video to the H.264 iPod format or the MP4 PSP format. Also, if you only have an audio iPod (like me) then you can save the just audio track as an MP3.
I downloaded the app and grabbed a video of Dinosaur Jr. performing a blistering version of "Forget the Swan" on a recent television appearance. TubeSock asks you for the URL, and after plugging it in, you can preview the video you want to save.
Choose your format and click "Save." When TubeSock is done, it automatically dumps the finished product into your iTunes library. You can also have it dump the files into your Mac's Movies library so you can view them with Front Row, or you can simply save the file to your desktop. Here's the result in iTunes.
The app costs $15. The demo version will only let you convert the first 30 seconds of any YouTube file.
TubeSock is the first project out of the development house known as Stinkbot. They have also created a neat bookmark bar script that you can use in Firefox and Safari to instantly send the YouTube video that you're currently viewing directly to TubeSock.
This is a killer app that's well worth the $15, especially when you consider all of the live music performances on YouTube. If you're a music junkie, this app makes it super easy to covert all of those concert clips or forgotten nuggets from the ghost of MTV past.
