How to Download and Burn Videos to DVD With Free Software - Supports All Web Videos But YouTube
This article originally had a step-by-step guide on "How to Burn YouTube Videos to DVD" but it was later modified because YouTube terms prohibit users from saving YouTube videos to the computer or burning YouTube videos to a disk. This also applies to Google Video, MySpace or even Facebook - they allow you to embed or play videos in the browser but you are not supposed to record videos, copy them or transfer videos to a DVD as they could be copyrighted video clips.
You can however download FLV flash videos from Blip.TV (under CC License), burn them to a DVD or a CD disc and watch them on a large TV screen. In fact you can download multiple videos, burn them all at once and create a DVD movie with chapters and titles (if you have software like Adobe Encore). Follow the tutorial:
Step 1: Download the Internet Video to your hard disk in Flash Video FLV format using any of the free software programs like Orbit Downloader or an online Video conversion service like Vixy.net.
Step 2: Download free DVD authoring software called DVD Flick - it takes all your videos in a batch, encodes (converts into a DVD format) and burns a DVD that can play inside any DVD player (region-free) or even your computer.
DVD Flick lets you add Titles, subtitles and audio tracks to your Video DVD. Alternatively, you can use Nero, Roxio or Alcohol to create DVD of web videos but they are not free like DVD Flick.
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Caution: The resolution of YouTube video is 320x240 while DVD frame size is 720x480 for NTSC or 720x576 for PAL. Therefore the DVD video quality may not be the best.
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Reader Comments:
I have been looking for good (free) DVD authoring software, but it looks like DVD Flick is exactly what I have been looking for! Thanks for pointing it out!
I was just reading the DVD Flick Forum, and there appears to be an audio sync problem. More than one person, with varying number of files, is asking for help.
Hi yes I read one of yours blogs of Sarah and I finally got the youtube videos to my computer using itube/Arestube Thanks a bunch for that I though I'd never do it , but the problem I'm having is when I'm trying to burn them with DVD Flick.
It starts fine ,but when it gets to the burning part after encodeing it says Error File .Then another window pops up saying Imgburn on the top ,and at the bottom of the window it says no device found.
Then when after it exits that window it says finished,but when I play it in my dvd player on my tv it doesn't do anything and pops the back out the dvd Whats wrong ?
DVD Flick sucks right now as far as i can tell. i did what it said, it burned........but not my movies...it burned me!!! three hours i waited and then i skipped happily off to my dvd player to watch my video and a whole lot of NOTHING happened!!!!GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! what do i do??? i searched troubleshooting and the the other strange ways of searching and i still have a burnt disc that won't play. or maybe it never got burnt at all. someone please help
You have given some good tips.
Unfortunately there is something going wrong.
I downloaded two flv from youtube and combined into one and transferred to CD-RW using DVDFlick.
There are two problems:
1. The flv files grow to enormous size. e.g. My two clips totalling 62 mb bloated to 2.3 gb. So I could burn only one third of it on one 700mb CD-RW.
2. When I inserted into my DVD player, it said "cannot play this disc".
Any ideas?
Am I doing right by converting to DVD and burning on CD-RW. Should I convert to some other format which is smaller in size and yet I can see it on TV using my DVD Player?
Thanks for any advice.
I used DVD Flick and converted the videos to the disk and when I put it in my DVD player the picture was all "pixally", if that makes any sense. Is there a way I can make the picture look normal? please please respond I am desperate
u can use NERO.. all in one
Hi from Australia, well I have found dvdflick so easy to use and burning my youtube videos...I couldnt recomend to you if were not good....goodonya mates...
Nick
27/7/07
Thanks for the nice tutorial! It really works...
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