How do I burn a youtube video to disc?

bigpound

Hammyman
You are only saying it is illegal because ou are assuming the poster is going to download videos & music restricted by their copyright. So stop with that.

Just download the MP3 of each video and stick them on your mp3 player then plug it in to your system.

free4440273

yep, as another poster said. 1st port of call -- use the brilliant FF add-on Video DownloadHelper and then burn to cdrom/

esuhl

Darksun wrote: »

Section 70 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act allows for "time-shifting" of broadcasts, however, a YouTube does not meet the definition of a broadcast in the act.

There is no concept of 'fair use' in UK copyright law, it is a concept derived from US copyright law (which is why you see it all over the internet). There is 'fair dealing' within the CDPA, but it has a fairly limited scope

Ah, right - thanks for that clarification! I was sure I read (a long time ago) something about "fair use", although it related to photocopying one or two pages of a book for personal academic use...

asbokid

Of course the downloader may own the footage! I've uploaded videos to youtube and long since lost the originals. Google will not stop me from downloading my videos to my PC again!

I use

youtube-dl a little script to actually suck off the youtube video; and

ffmpeg to convert where necessary from the Flash Video (FLV) format sometimes used by youtube to MPEG2 (for DVD) or MPEG4 for hard drive video archive.

Some of the more recent video uploads on Youtube are already in MPEG4. Perhaps in time, Youtube will transcode its existing archives to MPEG4.