Topic: You Tube downloader: choice of format? (Read 3341 times)

renluop · « **on:** April 14, 2011, 05:03:56 PM »

I have installed the You Tube downloader so that I can save the video to DVD disk for playback on a stand-alone lcd HDTV.

TBAH I am hopeless at remembering what formats I need choose or convert to for success with various playback media.

Can some one advise me as to the case in point, and, perhaps, point me to a link that gives a comprehensive list of formats and their purpose? Please.

tuftedduck · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2011, 05:15:51 PM »

>>a link that gives a comprehensive list of formats and their purpose <<

Is this the info. you want...........click on the blue file extension on page left for details.

http://www.fileinfo.com/filetypes/video

renluop · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2011, 05:47:30 PM »

That looks as if could be useful?

For present issue what would you chose for TV payback; MP4 perhaps?

geep · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2011, 10:46:01 PM »

Hi,
When I burn my own DVDs I first convert the .mp4 (or .flv) videos to .mpg using ffmpeg.
This .mpg file has the video encoded using the mpeg2 codec, and the audio using the A52 codec.
I usually have fairly low quality video source, so normally I use 352x288 (CIF) resolution @ 16:9.
Then I build a menu using tovid menu (which also needs ImageMagick).
Create an xml file of instructions for dvdauthor using tovid xml.
Build the DVD filesystem - .vobs etc. using dvdauthor
Finally burn using growisofs
That's on Linux. Fairly straightforward.
Cheers,
Peter

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