How To Download Youtube Videos as Mp4

Until recently all videos provided by Youtube were encoded as flash videos in the format .flv. With the recent addition of high resolution videos, or lets say higher resolutions than before, Youtube now provides mp4 videos of most videos on site as well. Now if you download videos directly from Youtube with the common methods like using the Internet Cache, download managers like Orbit Downloader or Firefox extensions like Download Helper you still end up with flv files.

If you want to download Youtube videos as mp4 files right now you can use one of two options. The first is provided by a bookmarklet that can be used in Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. The Get Bookmarklet [via Google OS]has to be saved as a bookmark, best way would be to drag it into the bookmarks toolbar for fast access. While bookmarklets are nice they require action for every video that you want to download, not that great.

A better solution is to use a Greasemonkey script that adds the functionality to Firefox automatically. Download Youtube Videos as MP4 is a small Greasemonkey Script that adds a Download as MP4 link beneath the video information box on the right pane of the video page. You need to right-click that link and select Save As from the menu to download the video as mp4.