Does anyone know of a program that can grab YouTube videos (.flv) and convert them directly to DVDs so I can watch them on a stand alone DVD player for TV viewing? I do know the resulting image would not be that good though.
There are a ton of programs that convert the YouTube files, but they are usually converted to AVI (XVID) or another format. I can convert them again with another program, but the more times you convert something the worse it will be.
Downloading the file in it's native .flv then converting it just one time to DVD works well, but takes time this way.
And does anyone know how to trim the beginning or end of these videos.
DVD Flick is a good, freeware program that lists .flv as supported.
It will optionally burn the DVD using ImgBurn (which is included as part of the package).
I myself use a plug in program on firefox to download the youtube video to my desktop as an .flv format and then drag and drop it into ConvertXDVD and you have the option of doing more things to it instead of just burning it to disk.
RealPlayerSP is free, it puts a box above all videos you watch online (youtube included), you click download now and it will download the flv- quickly too
Then use ConvertXtoDVD. This converts flvs to dvd format and then burns them, so you don't have to mess around converting them to avi etc.
EDIT: (I didn't put those blue hyperlinks on the words like Realplayer so clicking them probably will send you to an ad site, just use google search)
I ever fret by the same problem, however, I know a video downloading problem Video Download Suite later according to my best friend. This tool can download any videos what I want, it also can convert all videos into proper formats that I need, even the flv video file can be converted into any media files by this program. The page about how to extract YouTube videos shows the detailed tutorial, you may refer to it.
