To post a video to YouTube, you first need to create an account with them. It's pretty easy. You can do it here: http://www.youtube.com/signup?next=/

For your video, it needs to be in a compressed video format on your PC like WMV, M4V, divx, h.264, etc. There's a whole list of compatible formats here: http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55744&topic=10526

Once you've gotten that done, you click the option to upload your video and follow the prompts.

For more on this, YouTube's got a pretty extensive help section: http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?topic=10524

Good luck!

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No problem.

If you have a version of Nero that includes Nero Recode, you could use that. If not, you can use AutoGK to convert vob files into Xvid or Divx. I've got some tips on using it in this thread: http://www.techlore.com/forum/thread/22215/I-need-a--free-editing-program-for...

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That's the trick though, there's just not that many free programs that converts VOB. Typically you see shareware versions, but they have limitations and are basically unusable unless you pay.

I've used MediaCoder in the past (which is free) to do some conversion between formats and it may be worth a shot. It does say it converts VOB, but I haven't tried it. http://www.mediacoderhq.com/index.htm

I also like Any Video Converter (also has a limited free version, but I haven't had any real problems when converting other stuff to flash.) It too may be worth a look: http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Give those a try.

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Okay, here's how it should work:

Click "Add Video"

Navigate to the VOB file on your hard drive in the file explorer box and hit the open button.

Select "Flash Video as your profile:

Adjust your video/audio settings:

Use 640x480 for the video, 512 for bitrate, 25 for framerate, MP3 for audio, 64 for bitrate, 44100 for sample.

When you've got it all set, hit the encode button.

When it's done, go to your output folder (My Documents -->Any Video Converter is the default) and look in the flash (flv) folder. If all works, it should be there.

Give that a whirl and post back.

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Glad you finally got it!

Flash compresses much greater than MPEG2 (what a VOB is) with the caveat of worse image quality. It's pretty easy to figure out what the reduction is. When you set the bitrate, you define how many bits it takes per second of video. So if you select 512, it will use 512 bits for every second of video. Do the same calculation for the audio and you'll have your final number.

For YouTube, log in and click the yellow Upload button in the upper right hand side of the screen. Follow the wizard and you'll have it up in no time.

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ev fili said: Matt hiiiiiiiii I have a video I would like to edit. It dosent have to be converted just edited its 7 minutes and I would like to take a few minutes out of it that are boring Can you tell me how so that I can do it as esaily as you helped me before Thanks ev

Well, in order to edit it using the software that I know will be on your computer, you may need to do some additional conversion, but it depends on what format the video is in. 

What format is the original file in?

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Okay, if it's a youtube video, then it will be in Flash. Open your program that you installed, put your flash video in the input file and set your output profile (the format you want to convert to) to WMV (Windows Media Video).

Once that's done, you'll be able to edit the video file using Windows Movie Maker.

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Okay, step by step... Flash is the format for youtube videos. It's the method in which its encoded. Flash videos have a file extension of .flv, so a youtube video called "turtle" will have a file name of turtle.flv

To convert

1. Open Any Video Covnerter
2. Click "Add Video" in the upper left
3. Navigate to the youtube video on your hard drive you want to convert and press the okay button
4. In the Profile drop box, select "Customized WMV Movie (.WMV)"
5. Press the Encode button to begin the conversion.

Let me know when you get that far.

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