Watching a streaming YouTube video on iPad can be quite annoying when it occasionally pauses halfway. So, before I even intend to watch any YouTube videos, I did a little preparation by downloading them into a local machine, and have the machine stream to my device via wifi, which is significantly faster without any hiccups.

For downloading the YouTube video, Firefox has a really nice plugin called Video DownloadHelper. For streaming to iOS devices, I look for no other than Air Video app. Air Video helps to perform live conversion of flash video (flv) file downloaded by Video DownloadHelper so that it can be played on any iOS devices.

Sure it takes extra time and effort, but that’s the trade-off for convenience vs quality of experience.