How to Copy Videos from YouTube to a CD?

[Mark 1911]

My wife gave me a chore to work on while recovering from shoulder surgery.

She wants me to copy some videos from you tube onto a CD so that one of her aunts who does not have computer access can play them on her DVD player. I started looking at the You Tube vids this morning but could not figure out how to save them in their original video file format.

Anyone know how to do this, or if it is even possible?

Thanks in advance.

 

[hoosierdoc]

There are screen capture programs. Jing is one of them. You create a box on your desktop to record in, and play the video inside it. As long as the video is playing inside the box you drew it will capture it. You can then clean it up in a video program if you need to trim a bit if that software doesn't let you.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Other option is a roku or some other streaming device if she has Internet available

 

[Mark 1911]

There are screen capture programs. Jing is one of them. You create a box on your desktop to record in, and play the video inside it. As long as the video is playing inside the box you drew it will capture it. You can then clean it up in a video program if you need to trim a bit if that software doesn't let you.

Thanks for the tip. Looking into Jing now.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

My wife gave me a chore to work on while recovering from shoulder surgery.

She wants me to copy some videos from you tube onto a CD so that one of her aunts who does not have computer access can play them on her DVD player. I started looking at the You Tube vids this morning but could not figure out how to save them in their original video file format.

Anyone know how to do this, or if it is even possible?

Thanks in advance.

I think you'll be violating some sort of terms of use or copy right stuff by doing this. Is it possible to take a laptop or ipad or something you can use to show her via Verizon/ATT cell service?

 

[JollyMon]

There are add ons in Firefox that allow you do download the movie to your computer and then you can use whatever you want to put it on the CD. In the add-on section, just search for "youtube to mp4" and you will get tons of hits.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I use the Firefox plugin "Download Helper". Just download and convert them to your favourite format, stick them in a directory hierarchy of your choosing, and then use the CD burner software of your choosing to make the CD.

 

[Mark 1911]

I think you'll be violating some sort of terms of use or copy right stuff by doing this. Is it possible to take a laptop or ipad or something you can use to show her via Verizon/ATT cell service?

We need something to leave with her that she can watch at her leisure. I found something called You Tube Downloader just now, seems to work like a charm!

 

[CathyInBlue]

There are screen capture programs. Jing is one of them. You create a box on your desktop to record in, and play the video inside it. As long as the video is playing inside the box you drew it will capture it. You can then clean it up in a video program if you need to trim a bit if that software doesn't let you.

Better have gigabit fiber for that. If you're using the video equivalent of the "analogue hole" for music DRM, any network hiccups will get encoded in the outgoing video file as well.

 

[Mark 1911]

There are add ons in Firefox that allow you do download the movie to your computer and then you can use whatever you want to put it on the CD. In the add-on section, just search for "youtube to mp4" and you will get tons of hits.

I use the Firefox plugin "Download Helper". Just download and convert them to your favourite format, stick them in a directory hierarchy of your choosing, and then use the CD burner software of your choosing to make the CD.

Sounds like a good reason to download Firefox. I have it on my smartphone, but not on my home PC. Yes, I admit it, I am lagging far behind on the latest technology.

 

[eldirector]

If you have Google Chrome, install one of the free video downloader plug-ins. I have FVD Downloader and Video Downloader Professional. Save the movie to a file, and burn to CD as usual.

 

[oldpink]

Another vote for the Firefox plugin Download Helper - DownloadHelper - Media download Firefox extension
Unlike, Jing, there is no need to convert if you want to play the YouTube file in its native format.
It downloads the file as is directly, although you can also configure Download Helper to first download, then convert to the format of your choosing.
I use it at least once a week, with excellent results.

 

[Dockem]

Go to :

DVDVideoSoft: Free Studio, YouTube to MP3, YouTube Downloader, YouTube Converter

They have all kinds of copy/convert programs at no charge. Just make sure to do a "custom" install and say NO to all the things they want to add on to your computer.

Works nicely w/ YouTube.

 

[CCC]

In the address bar on youtube type ss between www. and youtube.

This takes you to savefrom.net and allows you to save youtube videos on your computer.

Then you may need to convert to a format a DVD player will play, I do not know.