How do I convert a utube video to .flv to put in Flash

Question

I have to embed a utube video from the 1960's into a website for my client.  How do I do this.?  I c'ant  seem to access Adobe Media Encoder to convert to .fla.
If I can convert t .fla I can make into a swf file using Flash cs5.

Answer 1

Actually, some companies will not allow any content from YouTube to be played in their browsers, because they figure that, if you are watching YouTube videos, you're not working.
In this case, the only decent solution is to host the video on your server. While Flash is a viable method, it will never play on mobile devices. Additionally, many modern browsers don't have the Flash plugin. So the right solution is to use HTML5 and host it yourself.
Now, Nancy likes FlowPlayer: http://flowplayer.org/
You need to purchase it in order to make it work for your website, but it will absolutely work with 100% of the browsers out there.
The other (and free) way to deal with this is to transcode your video into:
.M4V
.OGG
.WebM
And to call whichever will work with the client browser. Additionally, you have to include the MIME types that your server may not understand (usually OGG Theora).
Here is how to do HTML5 video in your web page:
<video width="640" height="480" controls preload="metadata" poster="path-to/your-poster.jpg">
  <source src="path-to/your-movie.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, H.264"'>
  <source src="path-to/your-movie.theora.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
  <source src="path-to/your-movie.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"'>
  </video>
Now, please understand, this presupposes that the video is standard 640x480 video and not high-def or 16:9 widescreen. You would make the dimensions match what the video size really is. You can make the poster out of anything, a frame from the movie or something else entirely.
Here is a link to a page that does what I am describing here:
http://ghostsofnewengland.org/
Go down to the bottom of the page and you'll see the video. Look at the sourcecode in your browser and see how it works.
Now, with respect to MIME types. If you have a Linux/Apache server, you may need to edit your .htaccess file thusly:
Download .htaccess, which should be in your root folder for your website (if not, create one) and add these lines:
AddType audio/ogg .oga
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType application/ogg .ogg
AddHandler application-ogg .ogg .ogv .oga
If you are on a Windows Server, you may have to use your control panel to do this. Also, many Linux/Apache servers have a control panel option for adding MIME types.
-Mark