I used RealPlayer SP to move clips of 1960s pop music performances off YouTube and onto my iPhone, and it required fewer clicks and complications than the various methods I’ve been using to date. It converts the video into the proper format for the device in question, and either lets you download it directly to the gizmo from within Real’s software (which it can do BlackBerries) or gets it as far as it can (as with iPods and iPhones–it can put videos in your iTunes library, where they can be shuttled to your Apple device the next time you sync). The downloading utility lets you convert videos for phones, media players, and other devices, and the range of supported gadgets is impressive: iPods, iPhones, BlackBerries, Zunes, xBoxes, PlayStations, Apple TVs, and more. The most interesting thing about RealPlayer SP is what comes next. You can watch the video download in a window (and queue up multiple videos at once), and send links to it online via Twitter or Facebook, and watch it within RealPlayer if you so choose… Hover over video on the Web, and you get a Download This Video link…. RealPlayer SP is pretty darn straightforward. There are many, many ways to convert Flash video into formats that are suitable consumption on various gadgets, but most do only part of the job–RealPlayer itself has been able to download videos, but not covert them until now–or are painfully geeky, or both. Want a reason to check out RealPlayer SP, the new beta of the next version of RealPlayer, a media player that most of us have used at one time or another but which is no longer omnipresent? It’s got a new feature that’s pretty cool: the ability to easily download video from YouTube and other sites, convert it, and then get it onto a bevy of devices.
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