Save YouTube videos in MP4 format

By James Kendrick | Monday, April 14, 2008 | 7:54 AM CT | 4 comments | Tweet This

We do a lot of YouTube video reviews here on jkOnTheRun and a lot of times we hear from those who want to view them in higher quality format than the normal YouTube FLV format. YouTube has recently put an option for those who want to view a higher quality format form within the video YouTube page but there is a way to save the video in MP4 format directly from the YouTube page using a simple bookmarklet or GreaseMonkey script. I’ve tested it on one of our videos and it works great. The simplest way is to add this GreaseMonkey script to Firefox but for full details and other methods check out the original tip.

(Google OS via Mike Cane)

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Comments (4)

OMG! You actually LINKED to me. JK must be feeling some hp Mini Note Fiend Guilt these days. Sufferrrr!

Mike Cane — 3:20 AM on April 14, 2008 Reply
This has been an option on keepvid.com for a few weeks now.

Sean — 5:04 AM on April 14, 2008 Reply
I’ve tried http://vixy.net/ . It works.

Rodfather — 7:39 AM on April 14, 2008 Reply
I think the Greasemonkey script for YouTube has already been disabled by YouTube.

Minda — 10:46 AM on April 17, 2008 Reply