YouTube is a great video sharing platform that launched in 2005. The platform was introduced by three former PayPal employees, but after YouTube's success, they got their own company. Google bought this company and it now operates as a subsidiary of Google. The platform displays video content from different people and from different companies. Viewing and downloading the video on YouTube is completely free. Videos downloaded from YouTube are usually in adobe flash video format and to extract the audio from these videos you have to convert YouTube to mp3. Generally, to view YouTube videos, users must have Adobe Flash Player installed in the browser. Adobe Flash Player not only helps YouTube, this player supports more than 80 percent of the videos available online and can be downloaded for free. In 2010, YouTube did an experiment to watch videos without Flash Video Player, but users needed HTML5. This beta version of YouTube was not popular as users could easily access the videos with Adobe Flash Player.
YouTube videos can be converted to any other popular format using an application. Various third party applications are available for this purpose and users can download them from the Internet. Most of these apps are free, while for others you have to spend a small amount. Purchased applications contain many additional features and allow users to perform many other functions besides converting videos. For example, users can convert YouTube to mp3 to listen to popular music on mobile devices. Some of these conversion apps can be used directly on the website where the user needs to provide the URL of the video they want to convert. Then by specifying the output type, users can easily get the converted files on the computer. But online converters are simple and have no additional functions. For example, you cannot change the output quality as specified by most web adapters.
On the other hand, downloadable converters can be downloaded to users' PC and after installing them, users can easily convert their YouTube videos. In addition to simple conversion, these downloadable applications provide many additional features. For example, users can convert YouTube to mp3 and can select the output quality such as bit rate and many other things. However, to convert, you need to download the YouTube videos and then you can convert them. This is a big drawback for some YouTube converting apps.
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