The package uses the rmannot package to embed a special SWF file to play the YouTube videos. There is a complete set of buttons that come with the package to control the video: play, pause, stop loading, rewind, load a video by its YouTube video ID, and a button to view a video on the YouTube web site.

Adobe Acrobat 9 or later is required to author a document; only Adobe Reader 9 is need to view the created yt4pdf document.

The author is D. P. Story. The package is Copyright © 2010 D. P. Story.