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"Doing those will require that I learn more." Truthfully, I had never tried downloading captions from Youtube until you mentioned it so... I learned a little too, which is a good thing, I think. Also, I probably didn't follow your method precisely in that I did not use Freemake Video Downloader to get the video from Youtube. I used one of the several Youtube video downloader add-ons to get the video sitting on my desktop in front of me to work with. I then used the Greasemonkey script to download the ".srt"(subtitles) file to my desktop beside the video. Then I used Freemake Video Convertor to open the video, add the subtitles file, and finally to convert to DVD. Using that method I have subtitles hard-coded into the resulting DVD files. Using that method worked for me. Honestly, I've never used the Freemake downloader but I assume it should work the same. BTW, if you installed the Grease Monkey add-on and then(after installing GM) installed(by clicking the green "Install" button in the upper right corner) the captions download script, the little Grease Monkey icon should go from grayed out to active(?) when you go to the video page you linked above. If it does, you should automatically have the subtitle download buttons since that's what the script is for. Good luck. Edit: Just for fun, here are the captions in "timed-text" format, not that they would do you any good without converting them to "srt" but still, it's interesting. http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v=c2aF6-RXs0Y. Notice the "v=video_id" part on the end. I assume you could use that as a template to get timed-text for any Youtube video having captions. Just guessing though. I got that from the source of the Greasemonkey script.

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Working with video, even just converting it from one format to another is extremely taxing on the computer requires a fairly large amount of memory. With 256 MB of ram, my first thought is that your computer is paging constantly to the hard drive. If your hard drive is almost full or extremely fragmented, your system will lock up and crash. Let me explain. If I told you I was going to give you a ten digit phone number (area code + number) and asked you to remember it for a few minutes, you'd probably be able to do this from memory. Now If I told you that I was going to give you 5 ten digit phone numbers and asked you to do the same, what would you do? You'd most likely need to write it down on paper to be able to give it back to me. Right? This is the same thing that happens with the computer. The computer uses the ram in the same way you'd be able to memorize the first number. When it runs out of ram to do this, it needs to jot the information down, temporarily. It does this on a hard drive with what is called a paging file. Under default settings, the paging file size is managed by the operating system. If your computers hard drive is full to the point that the paging file is not what the operating system requires it will most likely crash. This can also happen with a heavily fragmented hard drive. Anyway, I went on a tangent there. I would recommend that you increase your system ram. The more the better, especially if your going to work with video. To get info on hard drive. Click my computer, then right click on your "C" drive and select properties. It will show you a graphical representation of the hard drive with free and used space. From this box you can select the "tools" tab and then the "defragment" utility to defrag the hard drive. Note that with 256 MB of ram, it will take an extremely long time if the hard drive is heavily fragmented and there is even the possibility it will crash. Do this overnight. The information on the video card can be found in the device manager located in the system properties which can be accessed int eh control panel. Control panel - system - hardware - device manager. Select display drivers - then your video card should show.