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Convert YouTube FLV and Play FLV Files on iPad

What's FLV?

YouTube is a great resource for sharing and acquiring videos. You can freely upload, view, and even share videos on your blog or web site. Videos downloaded from YouTube are Flash Videos (FLV), it is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV. Notable users of the Flash Video format also include Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe, and many other news providers.

How to play YouTube FLV videos?

An FLV player is a type of media player that is used for playing flash video from PC as well as from Internet websites. An FLV player can be used standalone, without the need of the Adobe Flash authoring or developmental tools. The following players support FLV files in their default installations:

Mplayer OS X
VLC Media player
Aimersoft Video Converter

We know that most videos from YouTube are Flash Video (.flv) format. iPad (iPad 2 included), however, only supports the following video formats:

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second

There are many people curious about how to get their YouTube video files into a format that the iPad can play. If you have downloaded many YouTube or FLV videos and want to watch them on your iPad, you have to convert YouTube to iPad compatible video formats. Thankfully, there is some 3-party video converting software like Aimersoft video converter that can help you convert your YouTube videos to play on your iPad.

How to convert YouTube video to iPad with Aimersoft video converter

This 4-step guide will show you how to convert YouTube FLV to iPad videos and audios using Aimersoft video converter. For Mac users, please check How to convert YouTube videos to iPad on Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion etc.

Free Download and install Aimersoft video converter :

1Add YouTube FLV Videos

Click button to load FLV video files from your computer or devices. You can also directly drag the video files into the program directly.

Convert FLV to iPad

2Choose the output video format

Select "Apple" from the "Profile" drop down list, you can then choose the output video format, such as "iPad Video MPEG-4", "iPad HD Video".

convert flv video to iPad

3 Customize YouTube videos for your iPad

Click or on the top of the main interface, you can then customize the youtube flv videos.

Crop: Customize the frame size (16:9, 4:3 etc) and cut off black margins.
Effect: Set the brightness, contrast, saturation of the video and apply different movie styles.
Watermark: Add image or textual watermark to videos.
Clip: Trim your favorite part from the video to convert for you iPad.
Settings: Click "Advanced.." button next to "Profile"; you can set the video resolution, frame rate, audio channels, bitrates etc.