How To Put a YouTube Video on Your Zune: Method 2
June 27th, 2007
Back in December, I posted a quick tutorial on putting a YouTube video on your Zune using TubeSucker and SUPER. While it did do the trick, it seems that quite a few people had various problems with getting the process to work for them. This time, we will you use the new RealPlayer 11 and a great piece of freeware called WM Converter to accomplish the feat. You can download RealPlayer 11 here and WM Converter here.
Install both applications. Make sure that when you install RealPlayer, you keep the Enable browser download button checkbox selected. If you have already installed RealPlayer and unchecked this option, see this tech-recipe for the steps needed to enable this functionality.
Note: If you are running Windows Vista, you will need to right-click on the shortcut and select Properties. Then select the Compatibility tab and check the Run this program as an administrator checkbox.
Now, journey on to YouTube, to find some videos to download. When you find a video that you want to download, notice the Download this Video button above it (if it doesn’t show, mouseover the video).
Click the button. RealPlayer will then begin to download the video. While it is grabbing that one, go find some more to add to the download queue. The videos, by default, are placed in your Videos directory in a folder named RealPlayer Downloads.
After all of your videos have been downloaded, you’re now ready to convert them from FLV to WMV for playing on your Zune. Open WM Converter. Click the Add Files button and browse to the RealPlayer Downloads directory. From the Files of type dropdown, select Flash Media (*.flv). Select the videos to be converted. On the Convert to bar, click WMV Zune. On the Quality bar, click Better. Click the Output Folder button and select the directory for saving the converted video. Click Start Conversion to convert the desired video(s) to wmv format.
Once that has completed, Open your Zune software and sync the converted videos to your Zune. Mission accomplished!
For added video download action, journey over to SoundPedia and click the video tab. Find the video you want, click the Download this Video button and off you go. Then simply follow the above steps for the WM Converter.
Another option is to go to Yahoo! Video for some downloading fun.
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June 29th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I dont get the little Download this video tab for some reason??
June 30th, 2007 at 11:10 am
When i click the Download This Video button, it says a Just-In-Time debugger error and something about Visual Studio. Help! What do i need to do?
July 6th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I have went to YouTube, SoundPedia and Yahoo Video and none of them had the “Download this Video” option. What do I do?
please help me someone
July 6th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
NOW YOU HAVE F***ED UP!
yo these instructions own.they work great for me
July 16th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
thx
July 25th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
awesome dude only one that worked for me and ive been on for about 3 days searching
August 16th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
I’m having trouble downloading the wm converter. i Have orbit, and when ever i start downloading it, it fails. What should i do?
October 20th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
i did everythin i was soposed to up to the point where i convert my videos, i have dowloaded the required programs , downloaded the videos i wanted to put on my zune , and downloaded WM Converter 2.0 , but my converter does not look like the 1 in the display, therefore i do not know how to add movies to convert
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
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December 21st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
ok i followed all the steps and i have the files downloaded with realplayer i then converted them with wm converter and i changed my zune settings so that it will except all media types and i still cant get my zune to show the converter files so i cant sync them on please hit me up with a solution.
December 27th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I get the file converted and it says compltete but what do i do from there.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
somebody help! i dont know if they updated the WM Converter, but it doesnt look the same. i dont see any “add file” button or “start conversion” button either…please help me
December 29th, 2007 at 12:39 am
im gonna check this over and over again to see if anyone has replied because i have the same problems as the other people but i add more to it when i go to input my realplayer downloads i click on the file under the browser and notrhing comes up so i canot plaace anything to convert AND IF YOU KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM PLEASE LET US KNOW thank you
December 29th, 2007 at 1:20 am
hey im so confused can u plz help!!!!!
ok so i downloaded both real palayer and WMC ok I converted the videos i wanted so now how do i put them on the zune??? plz help thx
December 29th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
ok i have figured some things out and brought apon a new question. starting off if u have downloaded the WM converter that looks different from the pictures the words are differnt but mean the same things, input file means the same as add file and ready means start conversion. I before could not get my files to work on the converter but when u are selecting the files you have to change the file type to the one that starts with windows and should say the word zune somewhere. after that u can convert it and all i need to do is find the converted file. where do the converted files end up? then all i will have to do is set my zune to search that file please let us know thanks
December 30th, 2007 at 12:09 am
The file should be under my documents>videos>realplayer files. If not then just do program files>real>realplayer
December 30th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
ok i found the converted files and i placed them for my zune to look under but my zune is not picking them up and i dont know why so if u know why plz let us know thanks
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
well for me when i converted the video too WMV it did not work but when i converted the video to mp4 it worked.. so give that try…
January 4th, 2008 at 10:45 am
much props Lily..it finally worked for me
January 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Use Mozilla Firefox
January 6th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Yeah, I also put it to Mp4 and it worked.
February 9th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
It tells me to pick a file operation!!?? which one do i use?!? some one PLEASE help…I really want videos on my zune ASAP
February 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
NEVERMIND!!! i got it to work
March 9th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Yeah the WMV Zune convertion doesnt work on the WMC but the MP4 Ipod one does…even for Zune…
March 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Hey, thank you so much for posting this up. I appreciate it a lot, and I’m positive other people do too.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge. 
March 18th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
wm converter does’nt have the ADD FILES button!
March 19th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
THIS MAY HELP YOU BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY SYNC YOUR VIDEOS ONCE YOU ARE IN YOUR ZUNE SOFTWARE:
The problem I had was after I succesfully converted the file and put it in a folder that the Zune software looked in to analyze it was not finding anything. So after a little searching I realized that Zune will only look for windows media player type software. So what I did was once you had Zune software looking in the proper folder I went into that folder and then did this: Go to the top bar and go to Tools>Folder Options>View>then look for “Hide extensions for known file types” There probably will be a check beside it. Uncheck that box and then press apply and OK. So now look at the end of the video (or audio) you converted. Example: video.af.afs For Zune to even look at the file it must have a different file extension. So erase the afs and af and all you should have now is the file name and a period (video.) Now type in wmv after the period (video.wmv) Now go into your Zune software and go into videos. If everything is okay it may show up now! I really hope that helped.
March 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Hey We All Need Help:
When you go into your Realplayer downloads folder there will be a dropdown arrow at the bottom of the window. (Named FileType or something like that)
Select Flash Media or *.flv
March 24th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
i have downloaded vids from youtube into my realplayer. that all worked fine. next i downloaded wm converter tht worked fine apaprt frm there isnt no button called ‘add files’ but there is a button called ‘input files’ so i suppose this button is subing the other button. the only thing i do not understand is how to i get my videos from real player into my wm converter. please please some1 help me thx
March 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am
WM converter doesnt show the add files button need to get the files from realplayer
March 29th, 2008 at 8:31 am
need help where can i find the add files button or is there another way
March 29th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
yeah i had the same problem too.. sum1 pleae post a solution? please
March 31st, 2008 at 10:56 am
I’m having an issue with the WMC. I have the file I want to convert I tried the WMV and MP4 options but I always receive an ERROR on the Encoding Second pass. Has anyone else had this problem or has anyone know a fix?
April 12th, 2008 at 9:24 am
LK, I’m having the same problem. I’m using WM Converter 2.0 but conversion fails on all occasions. It works fine for the same files on another pc so the software definitely works. I suspect it requires an essential codec that I am missing on the one pc. I’ve tried several codecs out there but to no avail. Attempting to convert a file goes through “Encoding First pass”, then “Encoding Second pass”, and renders an “Error” status. If anyone knows what the issue might be, please let us know.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am
For those looking for the “Add button” in WM Converter 2.0, there isn’t one. You can simply drag a file to the box, or use the “Input File” button on the bottom right hand side.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
i tried to convert the video on the wm 2.0 but everytime i try, it says error.
im about to go insane.
PLEASE HELP!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
my zune will not download vids over 2 minutes
what do i do?
June 16th, 2008 at 12:55 am
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July 26th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
what do you do when you try to comvert a video from a real player 11 to your zune i trie but i can when is downloading it says real player download error please help me i really want to put videos on my zune please help
July 27th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
i tryed to download videos from my real player but when i convert then into wm it would download but then it says error whta di i do plese help me
August 8th, 2008 at 2:24 am
the download tab comes up on every on youtube and yahoo but every time i try to down load it fails and it says the reason it fails is cause its protected by something called a DNS… Any ideas?
August 8th, 2008 at 11:16 am
whenever i click the download tab it begins to download the tells me its unable to because its protected by DRM technology.. Any ideas?