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In this tutorial, I will show you how to convert YouTube videos to DVD. This project is free to do, the difficulty is medium and the purpose is to show how you can put YouTube videos on DVD’s so that you can play them on your television. This project requires two pieces of Windows only software. If you are using different operating system, please refer to the notes at tinkernut.com. The first software found on the URL listed there is called iPod video converter, the second piece of software is called DVD flick found at dvdflick.net. Both these software programs are free to download and install so go ahead and install those.
After have them installed, what you want to do is create a new folder on your desktop for the video files so just call it videos. Then open up the iPod video converter and find where it says “output” path. And for the output path, you want to set that to the videos folder that you have just created and click “Ok”. We are not going to use this program for now so go ahead and minimize it and then open up either Internet Explorer or whatever web browser you are using and direct it to www.YouTube.com.
Once you are at YouTube, you can either search for or select any other videos that you want to put on the DVD. For this tutorial, I am going to search for my own. This is one the videos that I had created earlier so I am going to select it and on the right hand side where it says URL, I am going to highlight that entire thing and either hit Ctrl+C or right click on it and select “copy”.
Then I am go down to my taskbar and bring back up the iPod video converter, click on the YouTube icon and where it says URL, I am either going to hit Ctrl+V or right click on it and select “paste” to paste the URL. For the filename, you can enter whatever you want, just make sure that you leave the .flv extension at the end and then click “add video”. And then repeat this process for however many videos that you want to put on the DVD. For this example, I am just going to do a second one and caught tinkernut2 and then click “add video” so I have got two different videos here.
You can see at the bottom here, you have another output path option so for the output path again, select the videos folder that you created. Make sure it will automatically convert to iPod video is checked. Then click “download now”. So now, I am going to fast forward this process because it takes several minutes to do but whenever it is completely through at all say 100% through. So when it is through, you can go ahead and exit out to this program. And then if you are looking at your videos folder, you will see two versions of the videos that you have selected.
In .flv version and .mp4 version, for this project we are only going to use .mp4 versions. So now, what you want to do is open up the DVD flick program and once it loads, you can familiarize yourself with the user interface and once you have done that, go ahead and select project settings. What you want to do here is select what medium you are going to burn it to whether it is two-layer DVD, mini-DVD, CD or just a regular DVD. I am just going to use a regular DVD so I will select that, then click on the burning path. If you want to create just an ISO image, you can check that box or you want to burn it directly to DVD, you can check the “burn project to disc” box and then for the label, you can type in whatever you want, I am just going to put “TinkernutVids” and then to save space, I am just going to click “delete ISO image after burning.” If you want to create more than one DVD, leave that box unchecked and then click “accept.”
And now what you want to do is add the videos. So to add different videos, click “add title” and navigate to the videos folder on your desktop and then select the first video that you want to put on there and it will add it to your project and then repeat that exact same process for all the different videos so I am go ahead and select my second one, click “open” and add it to the project.
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