Burning an online video to DVD

Or burning any video to a video dvd.

A friend of a friend wants to know how to do this as part of a class project. Here you go...

Get any video file from the internet. The higher the resolution the better, because it will be scaled up to the size of a tv screen, where it might look very blocky if its a tiny (or even normal youtube video).

You can put a youtube link into this page (http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/) to download a youtube file. Add the extension .flv to the file before saving it. But if you forget it doesn't save the file with a file extension by default so sometimes its tricky to find in programs later, so make sure you always look for all files and not just specific file types in open dialogs.

My researched turned up the open source apps for this are DVD Flick for Windows, and DVD Styler for Linux and Windows. I tested with DVD Flick on windows.

List of features from the webpage.

• Burn near any video file to DVD
• Support for over 45 file formats
• Support for over 60 video codecs
• Support for over 40 audio codecs
• Easily add a menu
• Add your own subtitles
• Easy to use interface
• Burn your project to disc after encoding
• Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations

Download and install from this link
http://www.dvdflick.net/download

Run the app, select Add Title in the upper right corner.

Select "All files" in the bottom of the file dialog, then find your video file you want to encode.

Click Ok.

Use a DVD-R if possible because its most universal for video, but a DVD+R will probably work on anything newer, and video CD may work as well.

Set up your DVD burning options by clicking on project settings dialog.

Under general chose the target size which fits the format you are using DVD-R/+R, video cd, etc.

Under the video tab choose the NTSC format for the US.

Under the burning choose your DVD Burner. (I had too choose create ISO because it Parallels doesn't support DVD burners on the Mac, then I copied the .iso file to the mac to burn. When you do this the iso file is under "My documents" \dvd\something.iso).

Click Accept.

Now click Create DVD at the top of the screen.

Click OK on the warning dialogs to re-encode.

Wait a long time.

Put your DVD in a DVD player and play.