Convert YouTube Video to MP4 Format

To convert YouTube video to MP4 format, OJOsoft Total Video Converter is the strongly recommended YouTube to MP4 format converter software. The following details show you how to convert YouTube video to MP4 format step by step.

What can I use for YouTube video to MP4 format converting? OJOsoft Total Video Converter, the easy-to-use YouTube to MP4 format converter software, vista supported, is the thing for you. Free download, run Total Video Converter and follow the YouTube video to .MP4 format conversion guide.

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 MP4 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.

Select MP4 as the output format by clicking TO MP4 button on the top-line of the interface.

Choose a preinstalled profile from the drop-down menu of the MP4 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 MP4 format converting tool, gives the easiest way to convert YouTube to MP4 format. Proceed to the next step about the tutorial for converting YouTube videos to MP4 format.

MPEG-4 Part 14, formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003, is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital audio and digital video streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet. A separate hint track is used to include streaming information in the file. The official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, thus the container format is often referred to simply as MP4.

Click the Convert button on the right bottom of the interface and now you've done all steps for converting YouTube video to MP4 format. The converter will start to convert YouTube video to MP4 format in a simple and quick way. The process bar will tell you how fast and the whole process about how the YouTube to MP4 format converter software handles the conversion.

OJOsoft Total Video Converter is the best video converter with all decoders and encoders built in, no more codec needed. It supports almost all formats like 3GP/3GPP, 3G2/3GP2, MJPEG, PSP, DV-AVI, AVI, DivX, XviD, MPG, MPEG(MPEG-1/2), RMVB, FLV, MKV, QuickTime(MOV,QT), MP4, M4V, VOB, WMV, DAT, TS, MPEG4 AVC, DVR-MS, H.263, H.264 as input while MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, MPEG, MPG, ASF, VOB, AVI, MPG, WMV, FLV, H.264, MJPEG, TS and SWF as output formats. It can also be used like iPhone video converter, 3GP video converter, PSP video converter, iPod video converter, and Zune video converter.

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 MP4 format. Otherwise, the conversion will be much slower.