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Converting FLX files for Playing on DVD

Youtube (http://www.youtube.com) is an excellent source of video material. I guess most of us already know that. Most people also probably know that you can download videos from there if you use Keepvid (http://keepvid.com/). I don't trust things to stay where they are on the internet, so if I see something I like, I grab it. Hence Keepvid works really well for me. Recently I found that I'd downloaded quite a lot of things that I wanted to compile into a single DVD. That way I could watch them on the TV. I looked around for something to convert the Flash Video format (FLV) used by Youtube and I found RivaVX (http://www.rivavx.com/). Now, I can't vouch for the commercial product, since the freeware product did all that I needed, but I think it's worth mentioning that video conversion software that comes without bundling and without awful watermarks is rare. So RivaVX are to be congratulated - check them out if you want to do something similar. So, to summarize: