How to Record TV Shows for Youtube and DVD

Why Record TV Shows for Youtube or DVD Well, there are many merits to record TV shows, followed by either burning to DVD or upload TV shows online. Therefore, you can preserve favorite TV shows for a long time, or watch TV shows later in office even if you have not a TV set there. Good idea and being a bad man, huh? Anyway, learn how to record TV on your PC in the cheapest way now!

Connect TV Signal Cable to PC

You need an internal TV Tuner Card or an external TV Tuner to receive the TV shows signal. By doing this, your computer is turned to a Digital Video Recorder (DVR). After the TV card or TV Tuner is correctly installed to your PC, connect TV signal cable to computer.



Note that before you buy a TV capture card, make sure the TV signal is Analog TV signal or Digital TV signal. Depending on the situation, you could purchase a Analog TV Card, Digital TV Card or The Combo TV Tuner Card. By the way, many TV tuners can function as FM radios recorder, so that listen music on radio or record music to local disk.

Run TV Recording Software

Most TV Cards include recording software that allows you to capture TV shows to computer. But you could also record with the third-party TV recording software. Some even enables you to edit video, to author TV show DVD menu, or to combine with photo and music, before saving and burning to DVD. For Example, Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder provides a user-friendly interface to search TV channels and to capture TV shows for Youtube in widescreen aspect ratio. The captured TV shows could also be burnt to DVD with dynamic DVD menu to play with DVD player.



If you use DVD Slideshow Builder as TV shows recording software, click Add from Device button and select TV Card as the input source. Then click Settings button beside TV Channel drop-down list and scan TV channel to record. After returning to Device Import dialog, click Record button to record tv shows to import list at the bottom. Finally click Import button to add captured episode show to make Youtube video.

Tips for DVD Slideshow Builder: You could watch TV shows in Full Screen while recording.

Save Video for Youtube and Upload

YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats. Most television shows recording software could output TV shows video supported by Youtube. However, Youtube now recommends 16:9 (1280×720) high-definition video. If you mainly record tv shows for youtube, ensure the packed software supports 16:9 HD Youtube video output.

* Windows Media Video(.wmv)

* .3GP (cell phones)

* .AVI (windows)

* .MOV (mac)

* .MP4 (ipod/psp)

* .MPEG

* .FLV (adobe flash)

* .SWF (shockwave flash)

* .MKV (h.264)

Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder supports almost all the Youtube video formats listed above (except SWF and MKV). Plus, with the recorded television shows, you could save recorded videos in HD Youtube video, and then upload to share TV shows on Youtube with others.

To upload saved TV shows to Youtube, you only need a youtube account. So, connect to Youtube.com and log in followed by clicking Upload button to walk through the easy steps.



Record TV Shows to DVD

Provided that you are a big TV fan, you will definitely not just satisfied with recording TV shows for Youtube. With regard to those classical and best TV episode shows, Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder gives you the cheapest way to burn TV shows to DVD for long-time saving, and with motion DVD menus!

Useful Tutorials:

How to Make FLV Slideshow




By: Oliver Twist