A New Favorite Web Tool

MediaConverter.org - it answers these questions ->

How to convert a YouTube video to MP3 for your iPod?

How to get a YouTube video onto your iPod?

How do I convert any of these to another one:

Audio (any to any):

* mp3
* ogg
* wav
* wma (only decoding supported)

Video (any to any):

* 3g2
* 3gp
* avi
* flv
* m4v
* mkv
* mov
* mp4
* mpg
* mpeg
* psp (only encoding supported)
* rm
* wmv

Office:

* doc to odt or pdf
* xls to ods or pdf
* ppt to odp or pdf
* odt to doc or pdf
* ods to xls or pdf
* odp to ppt or pdf

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