Convert YouTube Video to MKV Format

The following guide will show to how to convert YouTube video to MKV format with YouTube to MKV format converter software in detail. Get to download OJOsoft Total Video Converter for free trial and follow the YouTube video to MKV format conversion guide step by step.

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Click the Browse... button next to the Input File Name field, choose the YouTube videos for converting and click Open button in the opened Windows Explorer Window to load YouTube format into the software. The professional application can make batch conversion to your need by pressing + button or use drag-and-drop. For more about how to convert YouTube video to MKV format, go to the next step.

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service. Accounts of registered users are called channels.

Select MKV as the output format by clicking TO MKV button on the top-line of the interface.

Choose a preinstalled profile from the drop-down menu of the MKV profile list for the output video and the profile displayed on the picture above is strongly recommended. You can adjust more details by clicking Edit... button.

To browse for the output folder, click the Browse... next to the Output File Name field.

OJOsoft Total Video Converter, the YouTube video to MKV format converting tool, gives the easiest way to convert YouTube to MKV format. Proceed to the next step about the tutorial for converting YouTube videos to MKV format.

MKV is the filename extension for Matroska Multimedia Container, an open-standard free container format. A Matroska file can hold a number of audio, video and subtitle streams, besides attachments like graphics and decoder filters all at the same time, thus allowing a complete movie to be stored in a single file.

Click the Convert button on the right bottom of the interface and now you've done all steps for converting YouTube video to MKV format. The converter will start to convert YouTube video to MKV format in a simple and quick way. The process bar will tell you how fast and the whole process about how the YouTube to MKV format converter software handles the conversion.

Besides from converting YouTube video to MKV format, OJOsoft Total Video Converter can convert videos between any video format while it can convert videos to popular audio formats, and convert videos to your mobile phone, Sony PSP, video iPod, Apple iPhone, Zune video player and other portable video players. With all decoders and encoders built in, the user-friendly interface and batch conversion feature, OJOsoft Total Video Converter is the professional video converter for you.

To speed up the conversion, you'd better turn off your screen saver, close any program running in the computer and re-boot the computer before converting YouTube video to MKV format. Otherwise, the conversion will be much slower.