Download YouTube Videos and Video Formats

9Download YouTube videos as EXE

The EXE format opens the downloaded YouTube video in built-in player. This is useful for Windows users that do not have any multimedia software to play downloaded videos with. Simply hit run once downloaded to watch the video. This format is not compatible with Linux or Mac.

To download YouTube videos in EXE format follow these steps:

Instructions
  • 1
    Find the YouTube video you want to download or copy the URL of the video you want to download on YouTube. Click the download YouTube video icon on the video thumbnail or in the iDesktop.tv video player
  • 2
    You will see a new thumbnail appear on the bar at the bottom which will show you the download progress of the video downloading
  • 3
    You will have to wait until the video is downloaded to our server. When it is done right click on the thumbnail and select the "exe" as the format you wish to download the YouTube video as
  • 4
    If you are using Internet Explorer and you see the yellow information bar, please click the security bar at the top of the page and select download file
  • 5
    A conversion will be started and after a few seconds you will be able to choose where to save the converted / downloaded YouTube video on your computer
  • 1 Download YouTube videos as AVI
    Audio Video Interleave (AVI) which is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft. AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video
  • 2 Download YouTube videos as MP4
    MPEG-4 (MP4) is a multimedia container format. It is most commonly used to store digital audio and digital video streams. MP4 files play on all iPods/iPhones that support video
  • 3 Download YouTube videos as MOV
    Apple QuickTime Movie (mov) is a common multimedia format used for saving movies and other video files. Developed by Apple for Macintosh and Windows platforms
  • 4 Download YouTube videos as 3GP
    3gp is a multimedia container format used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones
  • 5 Download YouTube videos as 3GP2
    3gp2 is a multimedia container format used on newer 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones
  • 6 Download YouTube videos as WMV
    Windows Media Video (WMV) is a compressed video file format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft
  • 7 Download YouTube videos as FLV
    Flash Video (FLV) is a container file format used to deliver video over the internet and played with Adobe Flash Player
  • 8 Download YouTube videos as MP3
    MPEG-1 (MP3) is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players
  • 9 Download YouTube videos as EXE
    The EXE format opens the downloaded YouTube video in built-in player. This is useful for Windows users that do not have any multimedia software to play downloaded videos with. Simply hit run once downloaded to watch the video. This format is not compatible with Linux or Mac.
  • 10 Download YouTube videos as ZIP
    We also support downloading the YouTube video as a ZIP-compressed EXE file. This is to ensure the file does not get blocked by any antivirus software you might have installed. It also, naturally reduces the file size for quicker downloading