 “Did you see that You-Tube video with the cat and the piano? And the one with the guy who does all the dances? And the one . . . ?” How many times have you had this conversation with a gathering of friends? Like it or not, YouTube is our new TV . . . except that there is no handy DVD retrospective collection out just yet. So, unless you want to haul the gang over to your PC to hunt down that long-lost clip (or are lucky enough to have Apple TV or an iPhone), then why not make your own custom DVD collection?
There are three pieces to this project: ripping video straight from the Web, converting it to formats most DVD editors can recognize, and then re-encoding it all to a DVD. Pulling streaming video off the Web used to be a complicated hack, but now that FLV (or Flash video) has become a standard for embedded video, it is much easier. Likewise, the tools for converting FLV format files into more common formats for a DVD editor are readily available, albeit of mixed quality. Like the early days of video conversion for iPods and PSPs, a lot of these homegrown converters are less than stable. Be forewarned. In putting together our own project for making a DVD from found online video items, we looked for the most reliable and free tools online.
 Ripping YouTube | 
VideoDL.org is a beta version of an online video ripper that extracts Flash video that is embedded in targeted Web pages.
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This project involves ripping, decoding, and importing a lot of small files. To maintain order, we recommend that you start by making two new folders: one bucket dedicated just to the Flash rips you will be doing and the other....
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