How to convert/Burn to VCD?

[Naka]

Sometimes, you want to download You Tube stuffs like dances, instructions or short movie, so you use a Free You Tube Downloader to do it.

The format can be in XVid MPEG-4 (AVI), Window Media Video or even in iPad video (H.264MP4) or others

You are then happy to watch what you have downloaded in your computer.

But what happen if you decide to burn this into say CD.

I had tried in Window Media Video format....NOT successful

Then I tried in XVid MPEG-4 (AVI)........also Not successful.

What do I have to do to burn this You Tube stuffs into a CD?

Thanks

[bslee]

Buy a file media player, connect to TV and watch nearly any media file in its native downloaded format thrown at it. No need to write them to CD's..thats one old way of doing things.

[mlkok]

Try Freemake Video Converter.

[Charbroiled]

Buy a file media player

No need. Most new TVs come with a usb port. All one needs is a pendrive. Plug it in and Viola! Movie time!

[kwchang]

Burning DVD requires software and there are plenty of it available as free downloads.

Try Freemake Video Converter.

Yes, Freemake as its name says, is free

[bslee]

No need. Most new TVs come with a usb port. All one needs is a pendrive. Plug it in and Viola! Movie time!

Wrong!.. the type of media format for playback is limited and not everyone will splash out just like that for new TV. My LG TV does have unexplanable issues when playing some mkv and avi file formats. Can't do a thing, but media player is least fussy and plays most things thrown at it., moreover the media player only couple of hundred...kau tim.

[Naka]

Thank you very much for the tips.

Yes, I'll definitely look into this Freemake Video Converter.

In the meantime, I found it can be done by:-

http://download.cnet.com/Free-YouTub...-75219434.html

Then use this convert to DVD. I had done it and it works.

http://www.avs4you.com/

Cheers

[FineTuned]

Then use this convert to DVD. I had done it and it works.
http://www.avs4you.com/
Cheers

Naka, I'm really confused about what you are trying to do. Your title says `burn to VCD', your OP says burn to CD, now you're on the `convert to DVD' route.

What is your real purpose for all these activities?

Do you want to have your video playable as a VCD in a standard, no frills VCD player? Then obviously, burning to DVD doesn't work since a VCD player is incapable of reading DVD. On the other hand, a DVD player can read usually both VCD or DVD, but why downgrade to low quality VCD if you are going to play the video in a DVD player?

However if you are playing the discs using your desktop pc or notebook, you can just burn any video file without conversion to a CDR, DVDR or BDR, and play it directly. You only need a software media player (plenty are available FOC) with the correct decoders.

For me, I dump the video file into my android phone, and play it `as is, where is', without doing any conversion. If I need to watch it on the big screen TV, I can just hook up via the mini-HDMI for Full HD glory, no hassle. And as bslee pointed out, just about any current `cheap cheap' stand alone media player can also do the job if you copy the file into a thumbdrive and play it from there. Why consume so much of your precious time with conversion and optical disk burning?

[Naka]

Naka, I'm really confused about what you are trying to do. Your title says `burn to VCD', your OP says burn to CD, now you're on the `convert to DVD' route.

What is your real purpose for all these activities?

Do you want to have your video playable as a VCD in a standard, no frills VCD player? Then obviously, burning to DVD doesn't work since a VCD player is incapable of reading DVD. On the other hand, a DVD player can read usually both VCD or DVD, but why downgrade to low quality VCD if you are going to play the video in a DVD player?

However if you are playing the discs using your desktop pc or notebook, you can just burn any video file without conversion to a CDR, DVDR or BDR, and play it directly. You only need a software media player (plenty are available FOC) with the correct decoders.

For me, I dump the video file into my android phone, and play it `as is, where is', without doing any conversion. If I need to watch it on the big screen TV, I can just hook up via the mini-HDMI for Full HD glory, no hassle. And as bslee pointed out, just about any current `cheap cheap' stand alone media player can also do the job if you copy the file into a thumbdrive and play it from there. Why consume so much of your precious time with conversion and optical disk burning?

FT,

At first, I like to download stuffs from You Tube & burn it into CD. And that's what I set out to do.

But then I found out from the above link that I can only burn it into DVD.

I have no problem with DVD but I couldn't go back & edit the post, so I left it as it is.

So from the above 2 links, you can download any stuffs from You Tube & then burn them into DVDs.

Then you can store these DVDs and play them in front of the TV anytime and anywhere you like.

Do I make any sense?

[VeeJay]

FT,

At first, I like to download stuffs from You Tube & burn it into CD. And that's what I set out to do.

But then I found out from the above link that I can only burn it into DVD.

I have no problem with DVD but I couldn't go back & edit the post, so I left it as it is.

So from the above 2 links, you can download any stuffs from You Tube & then burn them into DVDs.

Then you can store these DVDs and play them in front of the TV anytime and anywhere you like.

Do I make any sense?

Naka, the question is/was why DVD and not a thumbdrive?

[Naka]

Naka, the question is/was why DVD and not a thumbdrive?

Yes, I suppose you are right.

I have tons of CDs & DVDs....better use them up first. Besides some friends still prefer the old DVD.

[Charbroiled]

Naka, the question is/was why DVD and not a thumbdrive?

Maybe it isn't so easy to lose a DVD than a thumbdrive? Seriously, saving data/videos on DVD is kind of passe, don't you think? But then, to each his own.

[FineTuned]

FT,
Do I make any sense?

What I can `sense' is that you want to continue to use an old school DVD player (which is incapable of playing anything but strictly formatted DVD-Video). Yes, in that case, you have to hop through that ecstatic loop of conversions and burning a DVD-Video. Way to go, Naka!

[eddychan]

video clips are best stored in their original format. do not try to convert them to other forms, as it will incur a lot of time, and the end result would always be a clip of poorer quality.

the available storage mediums are: external hard disks (can last 5 years if uncorrupted), DVD RW (dunno can last how long), CD (can last 5 years depending on quality.. they don't last 100 years as claimed).

if you want to convert your video clips to DVD format, wait until ur son grows to be a teenager and ask him to do it

[Naka]

video clips are best stored in their original format. do not try to convert them to other forms, as it will incur a lot of time, and the end result would always be a clip of poorer quality.

the available storage mediums are: external hard disks (can last 5 years if uncorrupted), DVD RW (dunno can last how long), CD (can last 5 years depending on quality.. they don't last 100 years as claimed).

if you want to convert your video clips to DVD format, wait until ur son grows to be a teenager and ask him to do it

I am burning into DVDs from You Tube stuffs like Tai Chi, dancing, cooking, etc for older folks of over 70 years old...all they know is CD or DVD, a lot are not into computers.

Time is not a factor as most of us are retired.

We maybe old but I think we are still boleh tahan.