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[jimpick67]

I have downloaded a video from youtube and it plays well in windows media but when I try to play it on my personal dvd player or on on the main dvd player/recorder attached to the television I get the message (the disc is incompatable) and it will not play. can anyone help.
Jim

 

[TrainableMan]

How did you download the video from youtube, using what product? Computers can create many file types, what is the file extension? DVD players on the other hand have a limited set of codecs they support. You likely need a program to convert the file to a DVD format or other codec that your DVD player supports (many support mp3s, etc) and then need to burn a disk in DVD format rather than as a computer file.

 

[jimpick67]

Many thanks for your reply the program is called youtube downloader by altavister.org really this is as much as I know should I download the program at the top of your reply
Jim

 

[TrainableMan]

There is no program listed in my reply.

The program you listed does not appear to offer the usual VOB format a DVD uses. Some DVD players support MP3 and this format might work for you. Most likely you will need a different downloader program which supports DVD format OR you will need software to convert the file again, once your downloader has created it on your computer.

 

[jimpick67]

Hello again, could you possibly recommend a program I have downloaded 3 eg (dvd videosoft. cnet.com. foxtab) but they seemed complicated, the beauty of the one I was using is you just clicked on the url pressed paste and that was it.I do not want to become a nuisance but I would like to get this to work.
Jim

 

[TrainableMan]

To be honest I've never downloaded a youtube video. And I use paid software, called ConvertX2DVD, which is very good for converting files such as AVI's to DVD.

I don't know if there is anything for that in our Freeware DB or not.