This is to show you how to download flash video from sites like Youtube, Google videos, MySpace, DailyMotion, Porkolt, DreamHost and convert the flv video to play in iPod. We need to use the VideoCacheView (free) and TouchUp iPod Video Converter (trial version).

Download the Flash Video

1.First, download and install VideoCacheView. You can download by clicking here.

2.Open IE (it won’t work in firefox) and go to the webpage with the video you want and play it. To check if the video is the webpage is flash video, you can right click on the video and it will say about flash player if it is as the below screenshot shows.

check if flash video

3.Launch VideoCacheView and press F5 to refresh

In VideoCacheView click on F5 to refresh and then click on the Last Access-tab to order by date and you should see a new file. Next right click on it and select Copy Selected Files To… and save the file in an open dialog.

save file in VideoCacheView

Convert the Video

Now, install and launch TouchUp iPod Video Converter after download it by clicking here.

Next choose “File > Add Video File”. In the open dialogue, choose the FLV file just downloaded from the website. Or you can directly drop and drag the file to the main interface. Then set the output folder to save the final file in. Finally press the Convert button on the right to begin the conversion.

convert the flv video to iPod

You may have found from the above that TouchUp iPod Video Converter is so easy to use with just a few clicks and furthermore, you can find its converting speed is so fast that you will get the file ready for you to play in iPod very soon. Besides, TouchUp iPod Video Converter supports a wide variety of formats including ASF, SWF, WMV, M4V, AVI, DIVX, FLV, XVID, OGG, MOV, MP4, RM and many more.

You can refer to our another how-to on converting DVD to iPod with TouchUp DVD to iPod Converter, if you need to convert DVD to iPod.

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