Save a YouTube video to DVD
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Did you ever wish you could download a creative YouTube video and save it on DVD to play later in your DVD player?? This is how:
- get youtube-dl python program to download videos from YouTube
- get ffmpeg
- get libfaac the audio codec used for iPOD mp4
- get libfaad2 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder
- get liba52 the audio codec used by dvds is ac3
- get libmp3lame just ... ta have.
- build and install libaac, libfaad2, liba52 and libmp3lame
- configure ffmpeg with the options: ./configure --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --disable-vhook --enable-decoder=ac3 --enable-liba52 --enable-gpl
- build and install ffmpeg
- chmod +x youtube-dl
- find the YouTube video you want to save and copy the URL to the clipboard
- open a terminal window and run the command: ./youtube-dl.py -b <URL of video> (-b gets the mp4 version)
- convert the video to DVD format: ffmpeg -i <downloaded mp4> -target ntsc-dvd -r 29.97 -aspect 4:3 -b 4000k -maxrate 6000k output-file-name.mp2
- using makexml from the tovid tool suite create the xml file for the authoring process: makexml -chapters 1 output-file-name.mp2 -out output-file-name
- Finally, also from the tovid tool suite: makedvd output-file-name.xml to create the iso. Use your favorite DVD/CD burning software to burn the iso.