Two Methods to Watch YouTube Videos on Roku

Overview

Roku is a line of digital media players on which users can enjoy many online video contents on Netflix channel, Amazon channel, Huluplus channel, etc. Now many users asked can Roku play YouTube videos and the following article just introduces two methods to help users to watch YouTube videos on Roku.

Method 1: Directly watch YouTube channel video on Roku

With the Roku 3 being launched, users can directly watch YouTube channel on their Roku set box, but first, users should install YouTube channel. Users can follow the steps below to install YouTube channel on Roku.

• Open Roku on your TV, and log in your Roku account.
• Click Streaming Channels>Click OK button>Click Top Free and then choose YouTube. Or users can click Search Channels button and search YouTube here.
• Select YouTube channel>Click OK.
• Click Add Channel in the channel details>Click OK button to add it to your Roku Home screen.
• Select Go to Channel>Open YouTube channel to watch your favorite YouTube videos on Roku.

Method 2: Download YouTube video with Allavsoft

• If you do not want to install YouTube channel on Roku, you can use a professional YouTube to Roku downloader - Allavsoft to download YouTube videos to local USB for offline playback on Roku.
• This Allavsoft supports to download any YouTube video in any video genre to Roku best supported MP4 H.264. There will be no quality loss during the entire YouTube video downloading process and the downloading speed is super fast.
• Except for downloading YouTube video to Roku, this Allavsoft also supports to download other online videos, like Facebook videos, Vimeo videos, Dailymotion videos, Yahoo videos, etc to MP4 H.264 for users to compatibly play these videos on Roku.
• The downloading process is also simple and users can follow the steps below to easily get YouTube videos downloaded.

Make Preparation: Free download YouTube to Roku Downloader

Free download the professional YouTube to Roku Downloader - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import YouTube video URL

Go to YouTube, locate any YouTube video that you want to download. Copy this YouTube video URL and paste it to Allavsoft. Dragging and dropping YouTube video URL to Allavsoft also works. Batch downloading YouTube videos is also supported.

Step 2 Set final output format

Click "Automatically Convert to" button to directly select MP4 H.264 as the output format. Clicking the "Automatically Convert to" button will give users more output format selections, like MOV, WMV, FLV, etc to allow users to work the downloaded YouTube videos on more video devices and programs.

Step 3 Start to download YouTube video to Roku

The last step is to click the Download button to get the YouTube video easily downloaded to Roku best supported video formats.