Youtube to DVD - again

Sept. 11, 2009
Ok, so I'm trying to do the whole Youtube to DVD thing again.

First off, link to Keepvid.com
With keepvid you can copy the url from a youtube or google video and it will allow you to save the file to your computer. Comes out as either MP4 or FLV file format.

Next you'd need to convert that into something that is actually usable. Those two formats do not easily (for free) convert to something a dvd creator software can use.

for this conversion I'm currently using Pazera Free MP4 to AVI Converter

Also it doesn't hurt to get a handful of Free Codecs so that your encoder has something to work with. I went with the general codec pack on this page. LINK

Next step is that you'll need a Good DVD Authoring software.
As soon as I find that, I'll update this post. Right now I'm still in the middle of converting about 35 video files.

============= Update
Sept 12, 2009
Ok, so the Pazera Free MP4 to AVI converter is solid. Clunky to get used to, but it works great. By putting your video through the Pazera program first, you can have them output all as the same format and size so that you shouldn't get any picture jumps when you change from file to file.

Now that your files are in a usable format, you can burn them.

DVD FLICK is a Free and pretty easy to use program. It's definitely NOT a "Full Featured" DVD Authoring software, but did I mention it's Free? It has an option to output the "dvd" as either an ISO file, Burn directly to disk, or make "audio/video" folders and store the data as IFO and VOB on your hard drive.
On the plus side, it does let you choose the number of threads when processing the raw video into dvd format, so it actually uses both cores on my DualCore Processor. I used the highest priority option when doing the work, and it was only using about 68%-70% of the CPU time.

I used roxio disk copier to actually do the burning, but that's software I already had available. Not Free, but for me no cost today.