Recording youtube videos.

[Roxie]

I have Googled "youtube videos to DVD" but it is a minefield as far as I am concerned! I belong to a Choir and there, in our repertoire songs on YouTube that I would like to listen to and practise. I have tried without success various "free" convertors. Can anyone on this Forum help a "dinosaur" in distress?

John, 2nd Tenor

 

[Ttrees]

Download and install realplayer, all you have to do is click the pop up over the video your watching and
record it, stick it into a folder or copy to a usb.
Why do you want a DVD ?
I have my laptop hooked up to my stereo for tunes videos and podcasts, its a better idea than crummy DVD's.

http://www.real.com/uk

HTH
Tom

 

[transatlantic]

I've had good luck with this :

https://www.4kdownload.com/

It's something you install on your machine and then simply past in the youtube video url

 

[Roxie]

Thanks Ttrees, but one of the Choir members has not got a computer but has DVD/CD player and I want to pass on recorded music/videos.

John

 

[Ttrees]

Cool, real player is still what your looking for.
Just right click on the video, where your just after putting it..either the desktop or folder,
and click send to dvd
(this might move it to the dvd completly, so you may need to make a copy)
again right click and copy if it needs to be saved before you send it to the dvd.

Tom

 

[Droogs]

if you use mozilla then get the addon video downloadhelper, its made by them for the browser and lets you dl and convert to what ever you want and its free

 

[morturn]

If you do not wish to install software on your computer, you can try this online utility. I have used this a few times and it does work, remarkably well.

[/http://www.kibase.com/YoutubeDownloaderAdv.htmlurl]

 

[Eric The Viking]

Life is too short for all this stuff.

You have an ANALOGUE audio output from almost every computer on the planet. It's for driving speakers or headphones or whatever.

Simply plug that into a recorder: It needs a 3.5mm stereo plug/socket out, and there is usually a similar arrangement for "in". If your computer is clever enough (windows and Linux boxes can certainly do this, usually), you can record from the "line in" socket simultaneously with playing back a YouTube video. The audio recording stuff (of very simple form) is bundled with Windoze. If you can't find it or don't like it, I'd recommend Audacity, which is available free for all PC operating systems (I use it on Linux, but it's free for Windows too).

No other complex "ripping" software (of dubious origin) necessary. You _will_ have to adjust the volume, probably, but the results will be quite good enough for the purpose. On'ce you have an audio file, you can easily put that onto CD with your usual CD writing software.

 

[llangatwgnedd]

This is the ripper I use.

https://mp3fy.com

Saves messing with leads and software. :shock:

 

[Roxie]

Thank you all for your replies. I have gone with transatlantic's suggestion with success.

John

 

[user 4112]

Any recommendations for an iPad downloader? I used to use VDownload+ which was a breeze to use but it was stamped on months ago. Now I use savefromnet.com and Documents6 but it’s nowhere near as streamlined as VDownload+.