Video hosting websites are gaining more and more popularity with time. It gives user a chance to view, upload and share his/her favorite videos with effortless ease. These websites provide real-time streaming of videos from host server. There are many popular tube sites like YouTube, MetaCafe along with DailyMotion, VuClip etc among which YouTube attracts one of the highest amount of traffic. If you like a video on YouTube, you will certainly want to keep a copy of this video locally. But YouTube does not have a provision for downloading videos due to which, you have to use a third party application. One such application is EMS YouTube Downloader v.2.1.

EMS YouTube Downloader v.2.1 is powerful freeware program for downloading online videos from YouTube to your computer and subsequent conversion of these videos to various other videos formats. It offers a single dialog box interface where you have to enter the video URL and hit the “Download” button to start downloading the video. Apart from this you can find options for converting this video in the same dialog box. Thus, it can be safely said that the program offers a simplified interface and functionality thereby ensuring ease and comfort of usage even to a user with average computer skills. The downloaded video from YouTube is in FLV format which can be converted to many popular formats like 3GP, MOV, AVI, along with MPEG, WMV, WAV etc. Apart from this, it can also convert videos compatible with platforms like Zune, iPod, iPhone, PSP, to name a few.

Summing it up, EMS YouTube Downloader v.2.1 is a fully functional third party video downloading application for YouTube. Apart from this, it supports conversion of videos to formats compatible with a number of platforms. Despite being a freeware, this application is a complete package of features for downloading online YouTube videos to keep them locally and hence it receives a score of four and a half rating points on the scale of five.