How to Play/Watch YouTube on Xbox 360

May 29, 2013 2:20 pm / Posted by Ian Lam to Video Editing

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There's no need for me to use any more words to describe to you how popular the online video sharing site YouTube is. Ever since YouTube has been launched on the Internet, users have uploaded tons of interesting videos, MVs, film trailers, educational video tutorials, etc. to it. For any computer users, they can easily access to YouTube via their Internet browsers, so today many people would like to relax themselves by enjoying YouTube videos. However, for those mobile devices users, things would not be as easy because of the format compatibility issues.

As we know, just a few devices can support to play the videos from YouTube, such as the Xbox 360. Microsoft has embedded a built-in YouTube app to the Xbox for viewing YouTube directly, but even so, it doesn't mean that Xbox users can watch YouTube on Xbox 360 without any problem. YouTube videos include FLV, WMV, MP4, AVI and more file formats, while the Xbox can only recognize AVI, MP4, M4V, MOV and WMV encoded with H.264, MPEG-4 or WMV. Therefore, many Xbox users may encounter the video playback problem due to the incompatibility of either the file format or the file codec.

Happened to get some unaccepted YouTube videos and want to watch YouTube on Xbox 360? Then you have to convert YouTube to Xbox accepted format via a professional third-party YouTube to Xbox Video Converter (Video Converter for Mac).

Start up the YouTube to Xbox Converter. If you've already got some YouTube videos on your computer, you can click "Add Files" to import the videos to the Converter. If you need to download some videos first, you can try Doremisoft Free YouTube Downloader for Mac

Hit the menu of "Convert To" to set the output video format. Follow "Game Console">"Xbox 360 (*.mp4)" and then all the imported videos will be converted to Xbox compatible format.

After the settings, press the big blue button to begin the conversion. Just a few seconds, the conversion will be perfectly done and thereafter, you can easily transfer the converted videos downloaded from YouTube to Xbox for playback.